What is happing these days?
October 31, 2007 [11:20 pm]As usually there is a lot going on in the lewro’s life. Last Saturday I spent on the MAC Expo London 2007. You can see couple of images on my flickr site. So, how was it? It was really cool. The most interesting was presentation of the new MAC OS - Leopard. I have seen most of the new features presented on the apple site but they showed us couple of new once as well. Specially very interesting was how you can create widgets directly from the Safari browser window. For example departures of Tube on the selected station. Creating widgets with zero programing knowledge, that it really cool.
There have been couple of other companies doing presentation among them Microsoft with the latest Office for MAC and Quarks, Crumple and others. I have also spent some times on the presentation of digital photography by Nikon. The reset of the time I spent wondering around with a coffee in my hand, ten minutes here and ten minutes there. It is a pity there were no hardware presentations by Apple. I would be interested to see the iphone, new ipods and ibooks. But anyway it was time well spent.
There is going to be another interesting presentation, this time specially about photography. One of my favorite companies Canon will be presenting in the London in about one week time. I hope I can learn more about digital photography and techniques for editing images. I am looking forward to this one. London is such a great city for this kind of free events where you can watch top professionals.
New books
Except the events I am attending I continue my study of web design and development. I bought couple of new books. Most of them are books for web designers but as you see I am going to study PHP and My SQL. So I am widening my spectrum towards development as well. After reading a book called DOM Scripting I have used the knowledge from this book in the couple of projects but what is more interesting it showed me that programing is not as difficult as I thought it is. I will let you know if I was right in case of PHP programming but that is going to take me some time. I am going to read and study this book as last one from all of these books which you can see on the image bellow.
Work in progress
So that was all about the access to information in different forms but obviously I am working as well. My full time job is giving me a great opportunity to grown, specially working in Photoshop is improving and speeding up. I am very happy about that. I have learned a lots of shortcuts which are extremely useful. I have still long way to go but it is a good start. I have also started a new project. This time it is print. It is going to be finished this week so you can find it later on my flickr, in the design section.
I wish the day had at least fifty hours so I could do more interesting things. I can not find the time to draw for example. But may be during the Christmas holiday I find some time. There are so many things I would like to draw. One of them would be motor bike Vespa or a car Mini. That are such design icons. I absolutely adore their shapes.
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Found your website through smashingmagazine.com.
Just looks incredible. Love it to bits!
I’m a 22 yr old developer here in the UK who is trying to become more of a designer in places :)
I was wondering if you could tell me how you got to display the 9 ‘thumbnails’ from your flickr site. I’ve tried to find something similar, but no such success.
Many thanks,
Michael.
Thanks Michael for your comment!
Regarding the flickr thumbnails… check out the source of this page. You can grab that script and use it straight away on you blog, the only thing you need to change is the user number. Just search for a flickr, it is commented so you will find it in a sec.
If you have any problems just give me a shout.
Great stuff - worked a charm.
This site looks incredible.
There are so many brilliant CSS-based websites, this one in particular is quite inspiring.
Thanks for the help.
Thanks Michael. I am happy it worked for you. There are so many cool plugins, specially for Wordpress.
Cool.
Let me know if you ever need any PHP/SQL help, that’s kinda what I do mainly as a web developer.
Did you skin this theme and css, if so, congrats, it’s great!
Thanks a lot Michael for your offer. I might need a help with PHP/MySQL. I am going to start studying it in a couple of weeks. As you can see I bought couple of books so that will keep me occupied for some time. I will let you know if I have a problem.
About the theme…Yes I did the design and CSS myself as a learning process of CSS. I have also tweaked the php in some places, but only some elementary stuff. I hope I will be able to do more once I learn PHP properly. Just hoping it is not going to take years. One year would be OK though.