September 21, 2008 at 8:03 am · Filed under AS 1.0, London, Tools
The weather in London was perfect this weekend (about 65 deg F, sunny, and crisp) and, as sometimes happens during these brief interludes, the local Gail’s bakery overflowed out onto the passageway in front of their shop. Other merchants joined them and suddenly there was a mini-food-fair on the way to the usual Saturday errands.
My favorite discovery was the German Deli and I sampled the “echte deutsche Wurst mit Sauerkraut” — the best brat this side of the Channel Tunnel! They were promoting their shops in Burrough Market and Islington. After googling the address, I discovered two important things:
1. The Islington store is not far from work
2. Google maps now offers walking directions
If you need good walking directions, go to http://local.google.co.uk
If you need good bratwurst, go to http://www.germandeli.co.uk
Guten Appetit!
(beer)
September 13, 2008 at 5:51 am · Filed under Learning, Mobile, Software, Tools, User Experience Design
Omnigraffle is fairly easy to learn. After the first week I felt pretty competent – except for one thing: how to show the current date in European format (dd/mm/yyyy) rather than American style (mm/dd/yyyy). The key is to edit the standard <%Date%> variable like this:
1. Open a new document in Omnigraffle and create a text field on the canvas
2. Double-click the text field to highlight it
3. Select EDIT Menu > Insert Variable > Current Date
At this point you should see this in your text field:<%Date%>. which, when you DESELECT it (click anywhere on the canvas) will give you: Sat Sep 13 2008
If you want to change the format you can use a few other variables like this:
1. Double click the same text field to highlight it again
2. Edit your text field so it looks exactly like this: <%Date %d %b %y %> Deselect it (click anywhere outside the box) and you should see:13 Sep 08
3. To write the full month name and full year, simply use upper case “B”, “Y” instead of lower case”b”, “y” and you’ll get something like this: 13 September 2008
That’s all there is to it 8-)
LM
PS: This works really well for “Shared Layers” and building a wireframe set for presentation. If you want me to show you how, just make a comment here.
