October 2004

Take Out the Trash

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I'm a real sucker for trashy novels, especially in the action genre. There's something incredibly enticing about books with bullets shot into the cover, simple plots with a twist you'll never expect, and simple clichéd characters. My new favourite page-turner of all time is Frederick Forsyth's The …

Televising Tech

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I had an interesting experience earlier today, appearing for the first time on television to talk about CSS and web standards on Canada's G4TechTV show "Call for Help". I was invited to come to the show by co-host Amber MacArthur and I agreed to appear because the novelty of the whole situation … read more »

Chucking Pumpkins

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I heard rumours a few days ago of some trebuchet action out in Whitby, Ontario, where they're sending pumpkins airborne for a good cause. Earlier today we had the chance to get out there and experience the action for ourselves.  •  For five bucks (which goes to the Cancer Society) the guys at …

Favourite Favicons: Seven

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Here's yet another installment of favicons to be added to the original collection. I think this time there are some really stellar examples. Rapha's stylish "R" matches their slick new website and the University of Saskatchewan's icon is very pixel-icious. Do enjoy.  •  If you've suggested a …

Geeky Grammarians

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As anyone who has walked with me for any length of time might know, I can be an annoyingly picky grammarian when I choose to be. It's not that I'm particularly adept at grammar (as some of the writing on this weblog might attest) but I have a hard time keeping my snickering to myself when I see …

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Daniel Burka

My name is Daniel Burka. I'm a web designer living in San Francisco. Currently, I'm one of the founders of Milk Inc.. For several years I was the creative director at Digg and previous to Milk, I was the director of design at Tiny Speck. I grew up in PEI, Canada, where I was one of the founders of silverorange. Aside from obsessing about interface design and css selectors, I'm a frequently-falling rock climber, a lazy cyclist, and an often out-of-bounds disc golfer.

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I'm a web designer living in San Francisco, California. I sometimes get the chance to present lectures and workshops at conferences around the world, where I speak about iterative design strategies, designing for large online communities, and more broadly about interface design for web applications. I've posted many of the slides from past presentations I've done on Slideshare.

Currently, I'm the director of design at a small gaming startup called Tiny Speck. Until October 2009, I was the creative director at Digg. I was also one of the co-founders of the social content-sharing site Pownce, which is now a part (heh heh) of Six Apart. Back in 1999, I helped found silverorange, a stellar web development and design firm based in Prince Edward Island, Canada. I continue to work with silverorange, but as an inactive partner.

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I'm not currently looking for any kind of work and sometimes I take a long time to respond to email, but if you'd like to contact me please send an email to daniel [at] deltatangobravo [dot] com

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I tweet when the mood strikes at Twitter

I sometimes review products on Silverorange Stuff

I sell my amateur photography on Clustershot

I post some of my personal photos on Flickr

I used to contribute on the Digg Weblog

I connect with people I actually know in the real world on Facebook

This Blog

The technology that powers this blog was built by silverorange on their Swat open-source web application toolkit. I'm no longer working on day-to-day projects at silverorange, but they're available for hire if you're looking for top-notch interface design or web application development.

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