May 2009
15 posts
Danish 70s Interior Design →
Almost not safe for work.
The "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks →
Collecting misplaced quotation marks since 2005.
“There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the...”
– Bertrand Meyer finally explains why I always run into trouble in projects with templates, references, vectors, threads, linking, casts, memory management, aspects, reflection, …
“The only thing is - we’re not sure just exactly how much, ahm, explosives...”
– Highway department worker George Thornton in “Beach Whale Explosion” (Discovery Channel’s YouTube channel)
Futura Medium →
I chose Futura Medium for our application logos a long time ago, but until today I didn’t know that it has been created by my namesake Paul Renner.
Fighting spam in contact forms with reCAPTCHA
To fight the growing amount of spam that arrives us through our contact form on pomfort.com, we decided to use a captcha - distorted text that hopefully can only be read by a human.
reCAPTCHA offers a free webservice, that provides state-of-the-art captchas and various APIs for verifying them.
I chose to use the plain PHP API, as our contact form is a custom made PHP mailer. I followed a...
“Inspiration, Vision, Determination…”
– is needed, when design should change things to the better. Jacek Utko on Ted.com
iPhone App Store Revenue →
Good article about Apple’s potential intention and rationale behind the iTunes iPhone App store and the money they make with it. [via daringfireball.net]
Interactive Topic-to-Party mapping for the... →
If you have opinions on topics but didn’t give your vote to a political party yet- here’s a website with help for your problem (Germany’s parties only).
“Teams which kick ass aren’t just ones that deliver, it’s that they deliver when...”
– Rands in Respone: The Screw-Me Scenario
