Reading Digest 03
Fun fact — did you know that dialing “03” in USSR would allow you to call an ambulance? Anyway, here are some hand picks from what I read recently.
Why are there three default worksheets in MS Excel — don't you love it when the top answer starts with “I was on the Excel team when this was designed…”, history in the making! Quite a good answer, too, teaches you a thing or too about working with legacy software and an existing user base.
jQuery 1.11 and 2.1 Released — for me the interesting part is their work with npm and Bower — more community awareness, I suppose? No library is an island unto itself, yay!
7 Lessons a Writer Learned from Tweeting — while the list itself is a bit too obvious, I totally agree on welcoming limitations in creativity — we're forced to think, choose carefully, edit-edit-edit, and make sure every word counts. Which also brings me to this:
5 Ways to Write a (Very) Good Sentence — nice analysis of building bricks for powerful writing (and them bricks are not just “words”, nay).
Color Matching Game — a bit too hectic for me, but a nice visual tool-lite to teach a “feel” for color. Make sure to check their other games too, I find that a lot of homegrown designers have no clue as to the basics (kerning, whaa?), and this could be a good start.
The Work
The MEAN Stack: MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and Node.js — I've been looking at this one from a distance (the distance I typically call a “lack of time”), yet the ability to use JavaScript on all levels looks very attractive, at least for quick prototype building or solo-projects (along with all the Grunts and Gulps it brings along). Gotta try it out myself!Why are there three default worksheets in MS Excel — don't you love it when the top answer starts with “I was on the Excel team when this was designed…”, history in the making! Quite a good answer, too, teaches you a thing or too about working with legacy software and an existing user base.
jQuery 1.11 and 2.1 Released — for me the interesting part is their work with npm and Bower — more community awareness, I suppose? No library is an island unto itself, yay!
7 Lessons a Writer Learned from Tweeting — while the list itself is a bit too obvious, I totally agree on welcoming limitations in creativity — we're forced to think, choose carefully, edit-edit-edit, and make sure every word counts. Which also brings me to this:
5 Ways to Write a (Very) Good Sentence — nice analysis of building bricks for powerful writing (and them bricks are not just “words”, nay).
The Fun (at work)
Comparative maps create surprising size perspectives — some enlightening information to be sure, yet also makes you think about how far you'd want to go to visualize data. Also — Monaco!Color Matching Game — a bit too hectic for me, but a nice visual tool-lite to teach a “feel” for color. Make sure to check their other games too, I find that a lot of homegrown designers have no clue as to the basics (kerning, whaa?), and this could be a good start.
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