Thought Outflux | Anirudh Sanjeev

I’m picky about IDEs in which I write my code. I usually move between writing small code in vi or larger code in Visual Studio or some other IDE. One IDE I loved was the Code::Blocks IDE, but there wasn’t a stable release for several years, though there was a tremondous amount of development going on, and the SVN version of the IDE had several great features. Finally, after nearly three years without a stable release, they’ve gotten version 8.02 out, and are actually following an ubuntu versioning scheme.

check it out at codeblocks.org

I’ve put aside some time to work on my flagship project “OneClick”. I started from scratch completely and the new version is insanely cool and powerful with features like detection of plugins, themes, confirmation and auto activate, among many others. I will be releasing it hopefully next week, and will have support for the futuristic wp-filesystem(hopefully)

is being developed and tested for good support for file writing and deleting, and has a SafeWrite mode which allows users to delete their files without any chmodding.

I’m gonna try out a new idea for getting things done. The famous “two a day plan”. Yes folks, you heard it first here, and here’s how it works:

Every day, without exception, fix up three things you want to do eventually, and work on it with two units a day. For example, my current plan is:

1. Do two chapters of OpenCourseWare material.
2. Revise notes of two subjects.
3. Pick up two songs on the bass(depends on the length of the song, however, but that’s a technicality. one song can be equal to one or more units)
4. ..or so on.

I’m hoping that setting small and easily attainable goals will help get more work done rather than spend endless amounts of time on pretty much nothing.

…I’ve been listening to it. Honestly I have been finding it difficult to find something I liked because I’ve pretty much tried most of the metal out there and know what I like.

Decided to take a small weeklong break from metal. No metal except when I’m running, or when I need a sudden bit of inspiration.

I got a collection of the top 100 techno songs, and so far they’ve been great. I discovered techno because of this tiny and free independent game: Synaesthete which is an amazing little game. It’s more of an experiment rather than a game, with art, color, techno, music, rythym and lighting in careful interplay.

I found this from the indie game festival, which has some absolutely amazing games, including some really cool physics centered games. This has inspired me to consider working on a game over the course of the next eight months or so. I’ve got a couple of great concepts of physics based games in my head which I want to make sometime.

you can see the IGF website at http://www.igf.com/

Visualscope LLC is a Seattle based design and development company, who seem to be a great company with promising designs, and have requested a review, and here it is:

The company:

Visualscope are Seattle web designers with experience with over 1000 designs, who seem to be well versed with design, development, hosting and marketing your website. With lot of experience with web design and SEO, e-commerce, and writing content, and they clearly know what they’re doing.

The main website:

The best way to tell a great web design company is by their website itself, and clearly Visualscope knows what it’s doing. The front page gives a clear picture to a user what they do, along with details, and all their designs are clear, fresh, inspiring and professionals. Click the thumbnail for a few comments on the website.

General design quality and aesthetics:

You can view their portfolio, or click on some of the samples I’ve provided to see the design in whole.

The design quality is quite professional, and it is unlike the regular “web2.0″ gradient and contrasting colors which tends to annoy quite a few people. Repeated use of stock images, and simple and easy to use design elements appeals to most users, particularly to the general market of customers of their clients. The websites are neatly organized and easy to read and use. They use bright designs, colorful and happy photographs, which has been proven to reinforce customer trust, and bits of flash to add a little extra to every website. They have a lot of clients over a thousand, I counted nearly thirty or something in their portfolio, which is well divided into categories.

Services:

They appear to mainly specialize in white hat Search Engine Optimization. But from the portfolio, they also offer hosting, PHP, Flash, CMS design and maintenance, ASP, Javascript, mash ups, and of course, CSS and HTML. The focus also seems however for marketing and SEO, and this company knows what they’re doing. Focusing on keywords, and adding good content to rank rather than other black hat methods. They are standards compliant and rules compliant and from the testimonials, it’s clear that this company is known for keeping on schedule and being easy to communicate and work with, essential for this kind of thing.

Also, they have written quite a few articles, and have made available plenty of website resources, I particularly like this one about ranking well, or rather how there’s no quick fix to doing so.

Overall, they seem to be a great company with lots of experience in designing quality websites and optimizing them, and more. They’re designs are clean, professional, and colorful, and from the reviews online, they’re clearly a great company to work with if you’re looking for designers.