May 2005

Top 5 Basketball Nicks

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My brother-in-law and I were discussing great basketball players' nicknames the other day and then I remembered that I used to do dorky top five lists on this site from time to time. What a perfect top five subject. There are some truly stellar basketball nicknames from both current NBA players … read more »

Favourite Favicons: Ten

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Here's yet another installment of favicons to add to the ever-growing original collection. Again, there are some really fine examples of design in an incredibly constrained space. I especially like the US Airways icon which is an elegantly simple scaled-down version of their already fine emblem …

Logitech Z-2300 Review

Yesterday I reviewed my newish Logitech Z-2300 PC Speakers over at the silverorange stuff site. A great set of speakers and a great bargain to boot. Read the full review...

The Zen of CSS Reviewed

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Before I get this review of Dave Shea's book The Zen of CSS Design started, let me get an important disclosure and a shameless name drop out of the way as they kind of go together anyway. I had the good fortune of attending the FITC conference here in Toronto back at the end of April where Dave … read more »

Wonky Widget Weather

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I finally got the new OSX Tiger installed on my mac last week, which went amazingly smoothly and quickly. It's fairly impressive that you can just push in a dvd and upgrade the entire operating system without a glitch and all of your settings are remembered (although it's still highly recommended …

Rainy Day Disc Golf Action

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What better on a rainy day than a little online disc golf action? A friend (he's on the left) just pointed me to a great little Flash disc golf game from Addicting Games that's actually pretty incredible. It even lets you throw curves to avoid the obstacles like ponds, rocks, trees, and garbage …

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Daniel Burka

My name is Daniel Burka. I'm a web designer living in San Francisco. Currently, I'm the director of design with a startup called Tiny Speck and for several years I was the creative director at Digg. 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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