Yearly Archives: 2010

UX and App Design at Google – Takeaways

By Ben | Published: February 3, 2010
Yesterday I was at an interesting UX knowledgeshare event where Simon Raess spoke about user experience and application design at Google. Google being an engineering company at heart they arguably only put in the recent years more weight on Ux and Design. Also nowadays Google employs only 200 designers. Being an engineer myself, I expected [...]
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A Programmer’s New Year’s Resolution for 2010: Learning Scala

By Ben | Published: January 9, 2010
In a world of constant change and ever increasing speed of innovation as a programmer, you might sit back and think about how to prepare for those changes and increase your career options. You might also look forward to a mental distraction from the daily Java/Ruby/PHP routine, or your inner geek is just looking for [...]
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