http://sitbandr.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:49:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks Adobe - after giving you thousands you give me back a few hundred - no really it's great. For those in education (not me anymore!) Adobe Flex Bulder 3 is FREE. I signed up last night and am drooling over my free lagit copy that is soo to be. No ... http://sitbandr.com/admin/web-development/adobe-flex-for-free/ Well zachblank.com is out and churning. So here is the transition. Sitbandr is now going to be more about code, dev, tutorials and less about life. zachblank.com will be all about life - more fun, yes - but also a bit more of a jack off fest. It will be ... http://sitbandr.com/admin/uncategorized/come-on-out-zach-blank/ I have been looking over some past work or revisiting it for whatever reason and in each piece the laziness is just oozing out. Here is my list of lazy web guy characteristics: You see something and remember making a note to fix it later. You make another note. You don't reset CSS ... http://sitbandr.com/admin/web-development/signs-of-a-lazy-web-designer/ Thinking that a week out of the term spent in New York City with a group of smart, funny, dorky, beautiful people would be a vacation would be an ill-founded understatement. For a week spent under this looming grey cityscape offers far more than a vacation. The simplicity of presence ... http://sitbandr.com/admin/advertising/new-york-and-the-new-yorks-to-follow/ A blog is a free form space to explore ideas, thoughts and feelings. There are several types of blogs. Business, self-promotion, SEOcentric, ranting and so on. I started on this blog as a professional exploration of the things I think about and do. Well recently it has been far from ... http://sitbandr.com/admin/rant/i-choose-not-to-race/ Among all the great things that happen to us. All the encouragement, high fives, and way-to-goes, it seems that there will always be those few who continually practice the empty promise and perpetually disappoint. Really this is a comment on being cynical in an educated fashion, as knowing the empty ... http://sitbandr.com/admin/rant/some-coments-on-disappointments/ Go check your Facebook! You now have a new chat feature... Good or bad? Pretty of Ugly? Earlier I wrote about Facebook adopting popular features from other services and becoming a powerhouse for a digital lifestyle. Well chat is a huge step and so far it looks pretty sweet. Keep ... http://sitbandr.com/admin/cool-shit/predictions-panning-out/ Following in the huge footsteps of Jonathan Harris my project (name yet to be announced), is an exploration of the human imagination. Interactively, creatively, visually and of course digitally it will study the trends, themes, modern evolution and status of the imagination. Have any suggestions that expand on this? Send em ... http://sitbandr.com/admin/advertising/what-if-lets-explore-human-imagination/ Interaction design, or user experience (UX) should influence product design. Or visa-versa. Talking with an old friend who is the Director of Interactivity at a 'brand advocacy' agency in Portland lead to the topic of what elements are involved in interaction design. The main take away from that is product ... http://sitbandr.com/admin/advertising/interaction-design-v-product-design/ Lives these days are really lived two fold, if not more. All of us have our human side and our digital side, or our real world and our digital world. And as life goes on we learn and grow in these worlds and inevitable learn new things. Fun right? But what ... http://sitbandr.com/admin/rant/on-growing-up-but-only-part-way/