TTMMHTM:Ajax playground,musings about code as communication,writing better resumes
Things that made me happy this morning:
- “Google now has an Ajax API Playground”:http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/ which allows you to play interactively with all their APIs. Great stuff!
- Infovore has some good advice for “journalists – learn to think like a coder”:http://infovore.org/archives/2009/01/22/learning-to-think-like-a-programmer/
- “Paul Bucheit shows that you can communicate with code”:http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/01/communicating-with-code.html if you are not happy to give presentations and Dion Almaer “muses over the real effect of Google’s 20% time for creative work”:http://almaer.com/blog/the-genius-behind-the-google-20-time-it-isnt-the-time
- Some videos
- In the “ooh shiny” secton there is “Easyweb’s Showreel”:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3FQv_eAxp3c – amazing light projections on buildings.
- In the “what the frick is going on here” section there is “Jackie Chan in a fight scene dressing up as Street Fighter characters”:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BrJzE-kCHaY
- There’s a great series of how to write a good resume on Sqawkfox.com, this time “6 words that make your resume suck”:http://www.squawkfox.com/2009/01/19/6-words-that-make-your-resume-suck/
- The Metropolitan Police in London has quite a good “messaging service about ‘policing activity or initiatives, crime prevention advice as well as major incidents affecting your area’”:http://www.neighbourhoodlink.met.police.uk/
- Boagworld has a good list of “Effective call to action design”:http://boagworld.com/design/10_techniques_for_an_effective/
- And last but not least a great quote via kottke.org:
As a general rule, meetings make individuals perform below their capacity and skill levels. This doesn’t mean we should always avoid face-to-face meetings – but it is certain that every organization has too many meetings, and far too many poorly designed ones. – “Reid Hastie, behavioral scientist”:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/jobs/18pre.html
