lcLipsum Featured in “This Week in LiveCode”
My little Lorem Ipsum plugin, lcLipsum, for LiveCode was featured in the open source newsletter for the LiveCode community, This Week in LiveCode. If you are a LiveCode developer, check it out. It's free, versatile, and pretty useful if you are working on layouts with...
Dieter Ram’s 10 Principles for Good Design
These have appeared in a lot of places, including Wikipedia, fluidui.com, and this rather nice version using a design of Rams' to illustrate each point. I include them here for your reference and mine. Good design: Is innovative - Rams states that possibilities for...
Ideas to Inspire Blog Content
I'm making a new effort to increase the good, usable content of this site and blog, starting today. With that in mind, here are some ideas for ways to produce better, more frequent, valuable content on your blog. Set up Google Alerts. This free service from Google can...
New Domain: charlesbuchwald.com
As part of our recent server move, we've switched our domain to charlesbuchwald.com The feeling is that this is a better fit with our current initiatives, as ".com" puts the emphasis on the commercial space. Also, our old ".ca" TLD was not inline with our increasingly...
New Servers
Hey, hosting customers and clients, we're moving to a new server! You should have already received an email (or other messages) with all the details. If not, and your site is down, or you are experiencing outages or other odd behaviour, then please contact us. So far,...
Linda Dobson & Associates
Charles Buchwald & Friends has completed a new website for Linda Dobson and Associates. Linda Dobson and Associates provides results-based coaching, consulting and training. "With over 20 years experience partnering with profit and nonprofit organizations, Linda...
New Release: lcLipsum Plugin for LiveCode
Now available for free download is my latest LiveCode plugin: lcLipsum. It's a Lorem Ipsum generator and tool for LiveCode users and developers. It provides text to use when mocking up layouts. What's Lorem Ipsum? It's the "fake Latin" that you see in mockups and...
lcResTool & lcMover in REVUp Newsletter
lcResTool and lcMover were mentioned in the most recent issue of the REVUp newsletter from Runtime Revolution. It's nice to see the word getting around about these tools, and the sense of community around LiveCode. It says, I'm always happy when I discover a new...
WordPress Backup: BackWPup
Several of my clients have been concerned about WordPress site backups lately. We've tried a number of different approaches over the years. Lately I've come to like the BackWPup WordPress plugin. The key features, in my book, are: It's free and open source. ...but...
African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies
Glad to be able to help out the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies. I consulted with them on some WordPress technical issues. Their mission statement: "ACJPS is dedicated to creating a Sudan committed to all human rights, the rule of law and peace, in which...
New Updates: lcMover and lcResTool, Plugins for LiveCode
My free plugin utilities for LiveCode developers, lcMover and lcResTool have been updated to versions 1.2 and 1.4 respectively. There are bug fixes and new features for dealing with the new scaleFactor property, as well as a few tweaks and some fine tuning. There is...
Lourdes Valdes: Art Online
Miami artist Lourdes Valdes has a new site, courtesy of Charles Buchwald & Friends. This WordPress based site has an extremely clean design to keep the emphasis on Ms. Valdes paintings and let the rest of the layout disappear. Unlike the Flash based site it...