Origo – Distributed Software Development

Origo is an open, modular and extensible software development, management and distribution platform. Aimed at software developers, Origo provides a set of services for combining, integrating and facilitating the development process over a network. Origo provides services like source control management, issue tracking, statistics, release hosting, wiki, blog and features for communicating and networking [...]

Chrome OS Partners: Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments

Google is starting to respond to questions about the just announced Chrome operating system. In a short FAQ today they talked about cost and initial partners.
First of all, the software will be free, which was an easy assumption to make since it will be open source. Like Android, Google will not charge users or device [...]

10 Things They Don’t Teach You In Design School

I had a great time in design school, I was constantly learning and surrounded by lots of like minded people. However, after five years of freelancing as a graphic designer, I’ve learned many new things. The following list is the top ten things that I had to learn the hard way.
1. Your diploma doesn’t help [...]

CodeIgniter – Open source PHP web application framework

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you’re a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you’re tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented [...]

What is HTML 5

HTML was developed by the W3C until 2004, when members of the HTML working group grew disturbed with the direction the W3C was going with HTML. They felt that the W3C was not paying enough attention to the real-world development needs of the language and focusing too much on XML and XHTML. So they formed [...]

Ten Characteristics of a Good Client

Do you know the key characteristics of a good client? Can you distinguish the good clients from the bad before you start working for them?
Or, when the tables are turned, do you have what it takes to become a good client when your business expands and you’re ready to hire other freelancers?
Here are ten characteristics [...]

SenCSs: Sensible Standards CSS Framework

SenCSs is a Sensible Standards CSS Framework (Pronounce it as “sense”). The current version is 0.5 and supplies sensible styling for all repetitive parts of your CSS.
What features that you can get from SenCSs? Here comes the list:
* Vertical rhythm for all elements
* Common typographic standard across browsers
* Browsers based styling
* Specified fonts for windows, [...]

Why Freelancing is Awesome

If you know a lot about freelancing, then you know that there are a lot of things that can make freelancing really hard. But that isn’t the whole story — freelancing is one of the best things on earth, despite any of the difficulties there may be.
Why is freelancing so awesome?

Control over [...]

7 Useful Apps For OSX Web Designers

Because of various requests I received lately and the irrefutable fact, that there are plenty of useful yet sometimes rather unknown applications available for OSX, I’d like to share some of my most vital pieces of software with you ordered by function below.
Image Editing – Photoshop CS3 / CS4
Even though there are some really promising [...]

Happy Birthday Drupal, you are eight

Eight years ago today Drupal 1.0.0 was released. It’s been a big year for Drupal, another big release with Drupal 6, a lot of awards, and a lot of recognition. The project has had some notable departures, promotions, and the addition of many great contributors and users. Happy Birthday to the Drupal project and its [...]