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Posts from December 2007

The Photographs of 2007

I’ve gathered together my favourite twelve photographs of 2007, one from each month. I had a couple of bumper months this year, from which I could have chosen several great shots (April, August and October in particular), but these are my pick of the months.
January

Weather Front
I shot this on a cold, early sunset last January. […]


Dopplr and the “so what” of social networking

I signed up for Dopplr. The idea behind Dopplr is great - have people come together around their travel plans. However, unless you’re an insanely frequent traveller, or have huge numbers of friends, Dopplr really suffers from the lack of a Step 2.
See, on Dopplr, I can share my travel plans with people, see some […]


Check the new shiny

Just put a new design live on the Connected Flow blog. Much better than Kubrick!
The story behind this is the story of a smart business move. I blogged about how much I hated the design of connectedflow.com. It’s such a programmer’s web design, with all its sharp corners and hacky layouts.
A couple […]


If your proprietary RAW workflow dies

Nobody likes to think about faithful friends dying, but Micah Walter has brought up again a subject that I try not to think about very much: data lock-in. As data-locked-in computer users go, I’m not very locked in. I mostly live in text files, source code, email and the web. I have some […]


What are XIB files?

The Xcode tools in Leopard introduced a new file format for user interfaces. In the brach of the prehistory of Mac OS X that includes NeXT, interfaces were defined in files known as NIBs, from their .nib extension.
A NIB file is a Mac OS X package containing, usually, a keyedobjects.nib file and a classes.nib file. […]