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Today I purchased 37signals’ new book ‘Getting Real‘.

I’ve been reading Signal Vs. Noise for a while now and I really appreciate the approach these guys have to a number of areas; application design, development, running a biz, project management, and so on. We do have their first book, Defensive Design for the Web, in the studio at work but I haven’t spent more than 5 minutes glancing at it so that wasn’t really a factor in deciding whether or not to fork out the USD$19 for the e-book.

It looks like an interesting book and stealing from their sales pitch: “This is not a technical book or a design tutorial, it’s a book of ideas.”

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve finished.

This is just a test to see if i can post and publish an entry from my wee under powered cellphone

Excellent, another one into the mix. As of today, James Story has started blogging. Check out Cache Dump. His first post is on a whole lot of geeky shit I don’t understand

James and I work at the same company but in different offices. Otherwise known as the “Silver Bullet” in our touch team…

And Mike Davidson brings us an excellent article on Camino reaching 1.0.

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Just when you thought you’d seen the best in website “design”, someone comes along with a stunner, straight out of 1994.

Now, to make things EVEN BETTER, this is a redesign. Think I’m joking? Look here to see their archived site from September 2004, care of the Way Back Machine. While their old website isn’t great, it isn’t as bad as their current one.

The culprit/client? Clutha District Council. What were they thinking?

New site
Old site
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