Strategy, development and knowledge
This is a rarely seen photo from the early nineties in which we see the young Steve Jobs and Bill Gates posing for a magazine. No words are needed to recognize the obvious differences in personality between them, differences that would ultimately be reflected in their products.
After a year and a half of using the iPad, I am still surprised by its usefulness and versatility; it is a great productivity tool. I had wanted to write this for a few months, but I put it off because I needed to cover some other news and events. Today, at last, I can tell you how the iPad helps me in my web development work.
It is curious how some words have no proper translation in other languages. Taste is not translated into Spanish with all its richness: beyond one of the senses, taste refers to something more abstract, something like what in Spanish we call “buen gusto,” or “good taste,” except that in Spanish we have corrupted the expression by adding the adjective “good”…
This is the post I never wanted to write. For a couple of years, it had seemed inevitable that one day I would write about the death of my hero, Steve Jobs. There is no point in writing about his death, but about his life—not the companies he founded, the products he helped create, or his vision of technology, but his example in life.
Over the past two years, I have paid close attention to other web developers’ portfolios. It is natural to make comparisons and notice differences. In particular, there are differences that are very easy to notice among portfolios from the United States, Europe, and Mexico.
One of the most treasured objects from my childhood and adolescence that I still keep as a memento was a “Pequeño Larousse Ilustrado” dictionary, which is not small at all because it is actually quite a large book. Something as simple as a gift from my parents had a great influence on the person I am today, surely without them suspecting it…
I am not a graphic designer, but I have been doing graphic design for more than ten years. When I was a child, my father paid for an Adobe Illustrator course, when it was still in its early versions, and I discovered that the right tools made many things possible.
Copy/paste, hereafter c/p, colloquially refers to copying and pasting something, such as text, in order to save time and effort. Much has been discussed about whether c/p is ruining education and the ability to write, since students commonly plagiarize information from the web for school projects…
Some applications and services become so useful and popular that they turn into platforms: people develop other applications and services around them. Some examples of platforms of this kind that many people know are…
There are a great many productivity applications for Mac, the web, and iOS. By productivity applications, I mean all those that take part in the information-management workflow; that is, they are able to generate, store, and organize information.
For several years I have written articles in which I argue that the future of the internet lies in content aggregation. By content aggregation, I mean the creation and use of tools that allow us to consume the information that interests us.
I consider myself a minimalist, not because of aesthetic preferences like many people, but because I like simplicity; I like achieving the most while using the least. I am the kind of person who does not take notes in class, and if I need to remember something in particular, I prefer to write down just one word…