Even if, you'll never make it to the final level if you don't know that extra trick and shortcut (CC hackcollege.com -> work smarter, not harder):
Namics and the Swiss Federal Statistics office have turned some 2009 and 2010 figures into cows and bells.
The Amazee Labs logo is something we're proud to show off. For example, we've printed it on business cards, silk screened it on T-shirts, and even engraved it on Legos. Let's add a few more to the list, shall we?
Lil Decal Shoppe helped us roll out these flawless decals, that really spruce up our Macbooks, among other things. And the best part is, no backing. It's like a transparent PNG we can hold in our hands!
A big shout out and thanks goes to Gary Sweeney, a local Texas artist that helped us cut this logo out of MDO board for mounting on our office wall. At a whopping five feet wide, this logo really makes an impact.
And finally, in the spirit of All Hallows Eve, we carved this pumpkin. Some painter's tape, a Sharpie, and an hour wielding an X-ACTO knife yielded this branded jack-o'-lantern. Happy Halloween!
Some go to church, we watch this (fullscreen, HD, sound on):
Landscapes: Volume Two from Dustin Farrell on Vimeo.
Photo by Mitchypop
DrupalCon London Day 2, the most exciting day of DrupalCon London? Perhaps it was for me, at least up to that day. The conference of course was filled with interesting sessions and the evening with interesting entertainment. And by interesting entertainment I mean watching Batman fling around shooting hilarious PG-13 fireworks at an oversized Joker blimp, but I actually learned and got excited about new technologies that day.
One of these technologies is node.js. The session was mostly about what can be accomplished instead of actual demonstrations of awesome kick-ass code, but it was still very interesting and displayed nice potential for future applications. I honestly can’t wait to see how Drupal and node.js are gonna get together. At this early stage of development I’d suggest getting out and helping! Take part in the community and help build this awesome technology!
I won’t dive into the bits and bytes here (as the speakers do a much better job at explaining how it works and why we all should care), but I encourage everyone with an interest to watch the session over here.
The second part of the day began at 4pm for the DrupalCon attendees who were fortunate enough to have received a “golden ticket” (the ticket wasn't really gold). We were rounded up and put in several big red boxes with wheels that carried us on 2 floors throughout the city.
As we made our way through the beautiful scenery and artistic landscapes of Croydon we gasped upon our delightfully packed lunch bags that were oh-so-kindly handed to us upon boarding the red box. My bag unfortunately carried a rather unlikable tuna sandwich (yuck!), an apple, a bag of crisps and a healthy chocolate bar.
On our arrival at the O2 Arena we were greeted inside an oversized tent with an entire miniature city hidden inside of it. I’ve never been to the O2 Arena so this was a major “gasp” for me. Unfortunately, the team didn't have seats together, so we had to split into two groups, but luckily we all managed to sit together anyway, which can only be explained by paranormal activity. The show itself was pretty sweet - not many people seemed to like it, but I thought it was pretty cool. I mean, we saw smoke, explosions and the Batmobile! What more could I ask from an evening? It was often a bit slow-paced, but mind you this wasn't a movie (although the screen used as backdrop was very delicious).
All in all it was a pretty neat day, a good day at DrupalCon London 2011!
ps: I think Batman could lose some weight.
We're moving to Prime Tower. No, just a joke. We're still in Technopark.
For our friends from Basel and abroad: This is Primetower in full view:
Thanks @samraymann. One of your photomontages a day keeps my doctor away.
If you're reading this blog post with Internet Explorer you might want to consider a shift to Camino or Opera.
According to research by AptiQuant, Internet Explorer users have a lower than average IQ. The study gave web surfers an IQ test, then plotted their scores against the browser they used. The results suggested that Internet Explorer surfers had an average IQ in the low eighties. Chrome, Firefox and Safari rated over 100, while minority browsers Opera and Camino had an "exceptionally higher" score of over 120.
Sam's IQ likely to be 100+
Implausible? I don't know. But if you're still running this site on IE, this might give you some comfort: AptiQuant's CEO Howard stressed that using IE doesn't mean you have low intelligence. "What it really says is that if you have a low IQ then there are high chances that you use Internet Explorer".
Read the full article at BBC or use the time intelligently and learn more about Opera and Camino. And once you're done find out that this was all an elaborate hoax.
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1Yesterday I got punched in the face and knocked to ground, metaphorically speaking of course. In Round 9 of my daily Fotobout with Michael, his picture Zürich West by Night proved too much for me to handle. The score? Our visitors voted in favor of his photo 44-13, a T.K.O. by anyone's account. You might be asking yourself why I would subject myself and my photography to the agony of defeat on a daily basis and the answer is simple — for the love of making pictures.
Step into the ring
Fotobout.com is a daily competition where I square off with Michael to post the better photograph. And our judges are you, the people. By sharing or simply "FOTE-ing" for your favorite photo, you cast a vote for it to win the round. Every 24 hours a new round begins and the results of the previous are revealed.
Contest rules:
Inception
The idea for Fotobout came to us over dinner when Kathryn suggested that our never-ending accumulation of photo equipment didn't actually yield many pictures. Michael and I agreed we should strive to take more pictures and decided our goal would be one good photo a day. How good? Let the people decide!
You can imagine how eager a group of web developers were to start a pet project, an "Amazee Labs Team Extreme," we called it. A couple of days of design work on my part, some back-end heavy lifting by Michael, and a touch of front-end magic by Kathryn and Fotobout was online in about two weeks time.
Adaptation
Michael won the first round 24-17. He also took round two 12-3. It was obvious my competition was fierce but even more obvious was the fact that we were losing voters. The number of votes cast in rounds two and three were down nearly 65% from round one. Why?
Greg offered an answer, suggesting he wouldn't vote on a daily basis because he didn't want to spam his social media network with Fotobout updates. Danny concurred, adding that sharing every day was too much to ask of our visitors.
The solution to the problem was the FOTE button, a way for users to vote for their favorite entry without posting to social media. The results speak for themselves, a whopping 68 votes cast the day it was implemented.
Lessons learned
Photography aside, Fotobout can teach us a few things about how new ideas make it on the web. Here's a few things I've learned from this project as well as some ideas I've subscribed to in the past.
Up next
Fotobout was a simple idea that we got online quickly and efficiently. And now we're looking forward to the future. In the coming months, look for Fotobout to adhere to the growing responsive design trend and don't rule out the addition of new photographers. Who knows, maybe we're on our way to becoming a full-fledged community platform. We'll see where the road takes us. Until then, get out there and vote. Ding, ding, ding!