http://nickdominguez.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:18:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 1. Start Locally Don’t think that you have to immediately take on the world’s worst problems. Start locally and see what needs are immediately around you and tackle them. Contact the non-profits in your local area and see if they need help with their web site or print collateral. 2. After School ... http://nickdominguez.com/2008/07/5-ways-designers-can-change-the-world/ One of the big holes in my workflow is version control for creative assets. Specifically, .psd, .eps and various other image source files. There are many version control systems for code specifically that exist with lots of GUI client options but there is only one viable commercial solution for creative ... http://nickdominguez.com/2008/03/dropbox-version-control-for-creative-assets/ I find it both odd and cool that almost a year ago this month I wrote this post and this week I bumped into this. It's great to see Google finally getting into this space and also giving someone like me both an easy and interesting way to display data that is both ... http://nickdominguez.com/2008/03/google-visualizations/ The worst part about being sloppy is not the low grade work that you produce, but rather the perception of yourself that you build. The more mistakes you make, the greater your reputation grows as someone who just doesn't pay attention to the details. There's nothing earth shattering about this fact, but it's ... http://nickdominguez.com/2008/03/sloppy/ Now that FOWA and Barcamp Miami have blown through South Florida, I wanted to take a couple of minutes and post some thoughts about the two events.Barcamp Miami this year was definitely  a success, last year we had about 60 attendees, 3 presenting stations about about 10 or so presentations. ... http://nickdominguez.com/2008/03/processing-fowa-and-barcamp-miami/ There are some significant events happening in South Florida this month namely the Future of Web Apps conference and Barcamp Miami. It's been fun to see how far along this area has come along in the past couple of years. FOWA is in my opinion the first well respected web ... http://nickdominguez.com/2008/02/february-events/ It's always fun to look back, on this day last year I gave a presentation at the University of Miami's Communications Week entitled "The Aesthetics of Web 2.0" While I was moving some files over to a new host I decided to take a peak at the presentation and was ... http://nickdominguez.com/2008/02/the-aesthetics-of-web-20/ I don't have an Amazon Kindle so I really can't comment intelligently on the device, but I just wanted to press down some thoughts on the subject. There have been alot of good comments and some bad, mainly about the device's design. Some claim that this device is ushering in a ... http://nickdominguez.com/2007/11/thoughts-on-amazons-kindle/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Rejects, originally uploaded by nickdominguez. These are some logos that I created for New City Church that were not used. ShareThis http://nickdominguez.com/2007/10/recent-work-new-city-church/ With the help of Friendfeed I am now publishing a "life stream" on this site here, take a swim and enjoy.ShareThis http://nickdominguez.com/2007/10/streaming/