Archive | March, 2006

having fun with colors and patterns

I’ve found out some nifty sites with color designs and patterns, these are great sources of inspiration and you can produce some great results by making the right combinations. The Inspiration Gallery SquidFingers patterns DinPattern ColourLovers Have fun!

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CSS Reboot part 1

I’ve signed up my latest work, “VideoGames Design and Programming course – Atempo Academia de Estudo” in the CSS Reboot website. CSS Reboot is a community event for web professionals, the idea is to redesign your old site into a webstandards masterpiece (or not) and show it to the world at may 1st. The gallery [...]

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having fun in Xbox Live Arcade

Yesterday I decided to spend my newly acquired 2100 xbox live points on the Xbox Live Arcade service. The points enable you to buy gamer pictures for your profile/avatar, themes for your xbox, game specific content (like cars for Ridge Racer 6) and full games from Live Arcade. There are several categories, spanning from casual [...]

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Rails Recipes goes beta

I’ve found out today that Chad Fowler has released a beta version of his upcoming book “Rails Recipes”. The approach for this book is to supply the reader with several case studies regarding diferente problems and situations, it’s a very practical and usefull book. Specially if you combine it with the “Agile Web Development with [...]

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moo FX

moo.fx is a lightweight, megasmall, easy to use, fast, cross-browser, javascript effects library, written with prototype.js. It’s a real blast and I can’t wait to use it in a project or two. In the meantime I recommend a look at these two tutorials for beginners, they’re really well written and straghtforward. moo.fx tutorial quickie The [...]

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