·· { Saturday, 16 August } ··

Number One≡

Or, never underestimate the importance of have a lieutenant when building a community-driven project. If you don’t go down with the ship and go MIA, your number one can help pick up the pieces.

“Over the past month, a lot of concern has been expressed on the Blueprint mailing list. Olav, the project founder, has not been heard from since he updated the framework to version 0.7 in February, and the last sign of any activity from him was 2 months ago on his Twitter account.”

Sure, it’s your baby and you want complete control, but do the right thing by your community and appoint a second. A coup may solve things now, but what happens when/ if the owner returns?

·· { Tuesday, 10 June } ··

Not Included≡

37signals are looking for someone to bring fresh new design for their signal vs. noise blog:

“Bring us a fine art angle. Bring us something hand drawn. Bring us great design. Bring us design that communicates a clear purpose. Design that’s friendly, warm, and inviting, yet elegant, modern, and fresh. Bring us design that feels good.”

Just don’t bring us mad Photoshop skillz.

·· { Sunday, 04 May } ··

Zinc Ezine≡

I recently received an invitation to view the e-zine area zinc — current issue imaginatively dubbed fetish — which provides a risqué (and at times, confronting) view into various illustrative and photographic works by a diverse range of artists.

Previous issues, I and idyllic, are also lush with imagery and typography.

“.. created in 2007 with the purpose of promoting art, putting together different artists in a quarterly ezine, providing a free platform for exhibiting the work of any kind of artists – painters, photographers, illustrators, designers, sculpturers, musicians, etc.”

·· { Tuesday, 29 April } ··

The Joy of Code≡

Google has (to a certain extent at least) become the de facto programmers manual of choice. Odds are, if a peculiar programmatic need arises, someone has collided with it before. The smart boffins at Joyeur bring us news that a distillation of sorts has occurred, that also encourages community input:

Snippets is a public source code repository. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them with the world (or not, you can keep them private!).