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Oct 13 2009

5 Technological gurus I admire

It is common to have models in life, to dream to be like them someday. Some people chose actors, others singers or rock stars… I’m selecting 5 technology-related individuals that I think are real gurus, people I really admire for their intelligence and...
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May 10 2009

Review: FlairBuilder

After getting some feedback and visits from my review of a GUI prototyping tool, here we come with another review, this time of FlairBuilder . FlairBuilder is a Adobe AIR made GUI prototypes editor, in some aspects similar to others in the market, but...
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Aug 04 2008

Review: Balsamic Mockups

After writing about prototyping GUIs with Powerpoint , I was contacted by Peldi, owner of Balsamiq.com, giving me a free license of his product Balsamic Mockups , to try and if I liked, write a review about it. I've downloaded the application (made...
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Jul 15 2008

Prototyping GUIs with Powerpoint

In my new job I've started designing a new web module for an existing application. My first task (apart from reading documentation) is to design all the web interface of the module management. As I became tired of Visio (is useful but only if you...
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Nov 28 2007

50 Greatest Game Design Innovations

I've found an interesting article about the 50 greatest game design innovations . Some of them are too obvious, but others have good points (like "stealth" or "bullet time"). I think that the order is not important, but judge by...
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Oct 20 2007

Evergrowing unneeded software features

Reading pending feeds I came across this post from Coding Horror about how software spoils (grows bigger with each new version, often adding unnecessary features), and I can't agree more with it. My first example is Windows, which in each version...
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Sep 02 2007

Adapting a boardgame to a Online Multiplayer Game

Today I did a bit of research about porting boardgames to online multiplayer games (for a possible project? who knows ;) A standard, turn-based game has a clear set of rules. When porting it for example to PC, some decisions have to be made, and if the...
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