Re: [rails-oceania] Re: How are posts here moderated?

2010-10-27 Thread Jason Crane
Hey, Posts automatically get moderated if the sender sends from an email address that is not the one they subscribed with. J On 27/10/2010, at 7:43 AM, jamesl wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Yep all questions answered. Thank you. > > On Oct 25, 4:46 pm, Ben Schwarz wrote: >> James, >> >> I'm one of t

[rails-oceania] Design Book Recommendations

2010-10-27 Thread wolfeidau
Gday all Probably opening a large can of worms, but I am interested to get some recommendations on design related books. I am interested in high level concepts like spacing, typography and layout more than the technical side of web design. I have read quite a bit on the 960 Grid System and it's u

Re: [rails-oceania] Design Book Recommendations

2010-10-27 Thread Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald
#1 - The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst Dylan On 28 October 2010 11:11, wolfeidau wrote: > Gday all > > Probably opening a large can of worms, but I am interested to get some > recommendations on design related books. I am interested in high level > concepts like spacing, ty

Re: [rails-oceania] Design Book Recommendations

2010-10-27 Thread Chris Darroch
I'd highly recommend "The Humane Interface" by Jef Raskin. Raskin was a psychologist who worked in human computer interaction, and subsequently the book has a heavy focus on people's cognitive capabilities as applied to user interface design. It doesn't deal with implementation details, but touches

Re: [rails-oceania] Design Book Recommendations

2010-10-27 Thread Julio Cesar Ody
Not saying that specifically to Mark who asked the original question. If you're like me and you tend to fall asleep while reading a book that tells you why the 3rd frontal lobe from left to right tends to like two squares next to each other when you put a rounded border at the bottom left of the r

Re: [rails-oceania] Design Book Recommendations

2010-10-27 Thread Rimian Perkins
Hi, I'm reading Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug at the moment: http://www.sensible.com/dmmt.html Even though I have been building websites for more than a decade, I still find it's a good read. Cheers, Rim - Rimian Perkins http://www.rimian.com.au h

[rails-oceania] Hack night vacancy

2010-10-27 Thread Andrew Grimm
A vacancy has opened up for Daniel Tsui. Daniel is specifically looking for someone to teach ruby, as opposed to this newfangled Rails thing, which'd really be up my alley. If any of the mentors are unable to make it, let me know. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed t

Re: [rails-oceania] Design Book Recommendations

2010-10-27 Thread Xavier Shay
On 28/10/10 11:17 AM, Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald wrote: #1 - The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst +1 Also anything by Tufte ("Visual Display Of Quantitiative Information", for instance) Dylan On 28 October 2010 11:11, wolfeidau mailto:m...@wolfe.id.au>> wrote: Gday all