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Opticon 2 art shanty begins
Work has begun on the Opticon 2 Art Shanty for Art Shanty Projects 2027. Opticon 2 is the revival of our 2020 art shanty project, a camera obscura. I’ll post updates on the Opticon page here, and on social media.
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GRASP: a Framework for Product Cycle Acceleration
GRASP is a framework for product cycle acceleration, comprising four elements: Goal, Resource Assessment, Strategy, and Plan. It aims to provide a quick overview of design and development effort, highlighting the importance of resource assessment and distinguishing between strategy and planning. The framework can be used as a complement to existing frameworks like OKRs and…
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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 lots of text fields or text placeholders. And if you…
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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 innovation in design are unlikely to be exhausted since technological development…
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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 email you an alert whenever it finds a…
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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 international client base and activity outside of Canada. Anyway,…
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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, the transition is going rather smoothly. We expect…
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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 is an accomplished organizational consultant, dispute resolution specialist and one of just 3% of the 24,000 members of the International…
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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 preliminary layouts. (Actually, it’s not so fake. It’s an excerpt…
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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 resource for the LiveCode Community. Today I came across Charles Buchwald…