I am a big fan of GeekTool. For those not familiar, GeekTool is an OS X application that allows you to place "Geeklets" on your desktop. Geeklets come in 3 flavors: a file plugin to track the contents of a file, a shell plugin to run shell scripts and get the output, and an image plugin to load images. Each plugin has customization and layout options to allow you to create a … [Read more...]
Prioritizing Preferece: The Challenge of Managing Design
Managing any initiative is a complex affair - juggling timelines, milestones, and dependencies; managing risks and mitigating factors. The management of design processes gets geometrically more complex when you add the wildcard of personal preference to decision points. Many non-designers are incapable of articulating their reasons for preference-based choices in a way that … [Read more...]
CIO Twitter Dashboard
Chris, the CIO/CTO of my day job brought his blog in-house. He is active on Twitter and wanted to provide a resource for other CIOs to find each other on Twitter. So, the concept for the CIO Twitter Dashboard was hatched. The idea is to consolidate on one page as many CIOs using Twitter as possible.We decided to leverage TwitStamp to create a grid of CIOs. TwitStamp offers … [Read more...]