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A Pattern Language – book recommendation

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:37:40 +0000

I stumbled on the Cool Tools review of the book “A Pattern Language” a couple of years ago. Knowing then that we’ll soon be planning and building our house, I was excited to learn of a book that could help me build-up some basic knowledge and understanding of architecture.

“A Pattern Language” is fantastic! The amount of practical yet easy-to-digest information is staggering, and the book’s structure makes it very easy to use. The authors describe 253 patterns with varying importance, spanning across three main sections (Towns, Buildings, Construction). Each pattern references the patterns it’s built on top of and the patterns it affects.

Spring time in the vegetable garden

Mon, 07 Apr 2014 08:29:44 +0000

A few months ago I started a vegetable garden in our back yard. It took quite a bit of work, but it was a lot of fun and it’s incredibly satisfying to see the fruits (and vegetables) of your labor grow.

I originally planted some lettuces, broccoli, cress, carrots, rocket, and parsley, and later added some zucchini and green peas. Most of these have grown pretty nicely:

I’ve now started working on some new garden beds, where I’ll plant summer veggies like tomatoes and peppers.

Blogging is hard.

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:54:48 +0000

Really. I had a blog in Hebrew – and it got stale to the point I just closed it.
This blog doesn’t get updated very often either.

And yet – I’m trying again. This time, it’s all about WordPress, in Hebrew. And not only that, I’ve committed to a post a day.

Collage Album Art

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:05:15 +0000

I was ripping some old CDs today, and these two were right next to each other on the shelf.

Getting Automattic!

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:51:48 +0000

For the past few weeks I’ve had the chance to get to know a wonderful company and an amazing team, which I’m really excited to join. So, with a blink to my previous job (thanks Blink), I’m truly happy to write that today is my first official day as an Automattician!

Great apps for Symbian s60v3 smartphones

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:33:14 +0000

Keeping track of all the apps I’ve got installed on my phone is not an easy task. Here’s a quick list of the most important ones:

amAze GPS - Worldwide GPS Turn By Turn navigation
Fring - IM and VOIP with skype/gtalk etc.
Gmail - Useful when I need to make a search for an old email message.
Gravity – The best symbian twitter client.
Mecanto – Streams all your music collection.
Mobbler - Couldn’t live without it. Scrobble and streams music to and from last.fm. Good review @ symbian-guru.
Nokia Location Tagger - Tags the camera phone pictures with location data.
Nokia Messaging - Push mail from my Gmail account.
Nokia Sports Tracker - Great combination of mobile app and web service. Uses the GPS to track speed, distance and course while running/walking etc.
Opera Mini - While the phone native web browser is quite good, Opera Mini is useful for a quick Wikipedia search from time to time
Qik - A great video stream that’s really easy to install and run.
Skyfire - Another web browser, but the only that can display flash/silverlight/whatever on a symbian phone. Hopefully will get faster and more stable with future releases.
Telmap Nav - Another TBT navigation app. I’m currently beta testing the new version. Really cool stuff.
WirelessIRC - A prefect IRC client.
Wordmobi - Awesome WordPress blog editor.

(Updated: August 2009.)