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Firefox Panorama for ebooks

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I have sev­eral ebooks on my iPad and I find use­ful to be able to carry them in an elec­tronic format. But at home, I prefer the phys­ical book as (apart for bet­ter typo­graphy) it exposes more inform­a­tion though itself (thick­ness, opened at a spe­cific loc­a­tion) or its pos­i­tion (on the desk, next to the bed, stacked over another, in a spe­cific pile or just being loc­ated in my way to remind myself of it).

Most of the desktop ebook read­ers can­not offer visu­ally such inform­a­tion about a book, and don’t offer any “nat­ural” book organ­iz­a­tion methods.

I would love to have on my desktop my ebooks organ­ized as I would have them on my table, in piles, some open, some closed, import­ant ones at left, etc.

I found that using an online ebook reader (O’Reilly Book­worm) with Fire­fox Pan­or­ama allows me to organ­ize my read­ing space; see for example the fol­low­ing screen­shot: Con­tinue reading →

Breadcrumbs for Code

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I find code fold­ing very use­ful to col­lapse verb­ose areas when I want to have an over­view of the code; but in equal meas­ure, when I’m deep in a such verb­ose and deep nes­ted area I would like to see where I am.

This is a nav­ig­a­tion prob­lem, while in a web site, the code fold­ing is your hier­arch­ical nav­ig­a­tion (or the sitemap) with collapse/​expand func­tion­al­ity, what we’re miss­ing in code nav­ig­a­tion are the breadcrumbs.

Here is an illus­tra­tion of how bread­crumbs in code could look like: as you scroll, on the top of your edit­able area you have a stack that shows your con­text: Con­tinue reading →

Ten Years

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Today Grapefruit turned 10.

Grapefruit Design

Ten years ago, me, Marius Ursache and Stefan Călin Liuțe joined forces and cre­ated Grapefruit (back then called ‘Grapefruit Design’). We were the first in Romania to tell and do many things about cor­por­ate and brand iden­tity, nam­ing, brand manu­als and web sites.

Grapefruit Design

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