Web designer and developer Zoe M. Gillenwater speaks with publisher Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel about her new book, Flexible Web Design. She discusses the difference between liquid and elastic layouts, examples of great flexible sites, and much more.
Matacabras
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Interview with Zoe M. Gillenwater
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Jeremy Keith on Ajax design considerations
Jeremy Keith from Clearleft discusses his session at 2008’s UI13 conference called Ajax Design Considerations that Tim attended. What do UX professionals need to know about Ajax to best make use of it in websites and web applications? And why is Jeremy’s title at Clearleft currently "Lineman for the County"?
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Think Vitamin Radio
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How To Think About Science: Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer
In 1985 a book appeared that changed the way people thought about the history of science. Until that time, the history of science had usually meant biographies of scientists, or studies of the social contexts in which scientific discoveries were made. Scientific ideas were discussed, but the procedures and axioms of science itself were not in question. This changed with the publication of Leviathan and the Air Pump, subtitled Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life, the book’s avowed purpose was – “to break down the aura of self-evidence surrounding the experimental way of producing knowledge.” This was a work, in other words, that wanted to treat something obvious and taken for granted – that matters of fact are ascertained by experiment – as if it were not at all obvious; that wanted to ask, how is it actually done and how do people come to agree that it has truly been done.
The authors of this pathbreaking book were two young historians, Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, and both have gone on to distinguished careers in the field they helped to define, science studies. Steven Shapin will be featured later in this series, but How to Think About Science begins with a conversation with Simon Schaffer. David Cayley called on him recently in his office at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at Cambridge where he teaches.
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/science/index.html#episode1
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Rebooting the News #39
"… We led off with–come on, what else could we lead off with?–the iPad’s debut. Dave’s: “It’s a big iPhone.” And a closed platform, “pure Apple.” The duality has always been Jobs vs. Woz. The artist vs. the tinkerer." http://rebootnews.com/2010/02/01/rebooting-the-news-39-3/