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Gathering stats and Herding Cats
On Thursday 5th February, I gave a short talk at the Cape Town Scrum Users Group about RailsBridge. My slides are up on Speakerdeck. I talked about RailsBridge itself (the upstream organisation and how...
View ArticleHands-on device testing
One of my side projects is the Nomad Device Lab. It’s an Open Device Lab: a shared community pool of internet-connected devices that’s free to use for testing purposes by web and app developers. If you...
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Notes on Show Your Work
Over the weekend I read Austin Kleon’s Show Your Work. The book is about getting discovered and self-promotion, but I picked it up with a more general vibe in mind. Skimming through the preview I was...
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Webmaker at the Bandwidth Barn Khayelitsha
On Saturday 13th June, myself and a handful of intrepid volunteers (huge thank you to Steve, Deb, Brad, Ian, Gavin, and Nathan!) headed out to the Bandwidth Barn in Khayelitsha to run a Mozilla...
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Webmaker at Brothers For All
This Saturday past, 28th June, myself and a bunch of volunteers headed out to Brothers For All in Langa to run another Webmaker event. Thank you Gavin, Andrew, De Wet, Jeremy, Simon, Trevor, and Nathan...
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Busy, busy, busy!
The past few months have been a little bit busy. Lots of exciting things have been happening, and work has been interesting, but that hasn’t left a lot of time for reading or writing. Cape Town...
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Cape Town Front-end developers Code of Conduct
From our next meetup onwards, all of our CTFEDs events will have a footer added, telling people that (TL;DR) they must be cool to each other. We’ve added it to our template that we use for our events....
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User-Centered Design process
I love User-Centered design. And I love obsessing about process, in a frameworks kind of sense. At work, we’ve been talking a lot (and blogging a bit about process, and iterating on ours. Here’s what...
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CTFEDs workshop for Open Design Cape Town
This weekend just gone, two of the organisers of the CTFEDs meetup group (myself and Justin Slack of New Media Labs) ran a Future Friendly-themed workshop as part of the Open Design festival. We wrote...
View ArticlejQuery vs JavaScript
At the recent CTFEDs workshop, I gave a lightning talk about jQuery vs JavaScript. You can view the slides on speakerdeck, or read a bit more detail here. I’ve also gathered some links on the topic...
View ArticleOpera mini and repaints
As part of a project, and using fufu as a sort of base, I got bitten by a particular bug: Opera Mini and repaints. Opera Mini is awesome and has surprisingly good support for a lot of things (except,...
View ArticleThe cost of our choices
Every choice we make as designers and developers comes with pros and cons. There’s always a cost that somebody pays, and I’m worried that some of the choices we make bring benefits to ourselves at the...
View ArticleWhy do we need to talk to users a lot?
I was chatting today to a colleague about having access to users for interviews and user testing. I took the chance to clarify (I think) my thinking a bit and scribble it down. Summary: to give a...
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