A co-worker of mine sent this out today. It’s called “How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language”. My favorite is CSS: “You shoot your right foot with one hand, then switch hands to shoot your left foot but you realize that the gun has turned into a banana.”
It’s a Web 2.0 application that serves as a directory to Web 2.0 sites. I wonder if it lists itself…
Adobe Labs has posted new information regarding Apollo â?? their upcoming build-an-application-out-of-html-css-javascript-and-flash development environment.
Looking to add a few new programming languages to your repertoire? CNet has 10 suggestions.
MaxUP is a un-conference that will run in parallel to max in October. An un-conference is a conference where you must participate to attend. Think open-mic night at the coffee shop, then require that everyone take the stage if they would like to listen.
Google plans to add 200 years of newspaper history to its search archives. Perhaps they will run into the same problems with this that they have encountered in trying to put books online but I hope that they succeed. The internet, I believe, has introduced a barrier to history that has not existed before. If I want to look something up on the internet and learn about it, I have to consider how long ago that event happened. If it happened anytime after the mid-90’s I will probably be able to find writing on the internet from that time about the event. If it was before that time, the internet may not give me the kind of perspective I’m after. What are newspapers but a ‘blog? Add 200 years of newspaper history and the internet just got 200 years older. Exciting!
The Call for Participation for NECC 2007 in Atlanta is Open. Deadline is October 4.
Wikispaces is giving away 100,000 FREE wikis to educators. Get yours!
New to CSS? Here is a fantastic guide to starting out with CSS.
This isn’t as easy to do as it sounds. Horizontally center, easy; Vertically-center, tricky. Here’s a shot at a solution.
Here’s a site design that takes the painfully boring topic of insurance and makes it fun.
Flash is Ten years old! Flash back at the Flash anniversary site.
Here’s another one of those things that I know I need to learn and start using, and haven’t.
Where do you stand on software/video piracy? I don’t know anybody that’s all for it, but we all seem to have a line that we think is all right to cross. This video compares piracy to things that are pretty absurd…
WebWag is another AJAX-driven start page. Looks great.
Digital Web Magazine - News - Article: The Big Picture on Microformats: You've heard the buzz about microformats, and you've probably been meaning to use them on your sites—perhaps they're sitting somewhere near the bottom of your list of things to do. In his new article, John Allsopp gives us a snapshot of what's happening with microformats today, and he challenges us all to move them closer to the top of the pile.
Bytespring is a content management system built in ColdFusion. Jason Sheedy has posted a FAQ
I haven’t posted for a couple of days, but it’s not because I haven’t been blogging. Several months ago I started to move forward with creating a site where video tutorials could be shared. I had gotten frustrated with the cost of commercial services for what they were offering, while at the same time depressed by the free alternatives. Chris Pultz and I each created one series of videos to get started, and neither of us got further than that. What got in the way? Well, I should say that the new site got in the way of time that we would both rather spend with our families. Who wants to work when you leave work?
So, what about the site? Well, Chris noticed after we began working on the site that screencasting (the new term for narrated screen recordings) was starting to take off and that quite a few folks were beginning to share them on the web. Indeed, in just the few months since I set up the site, tons of these screencasts have been published. Why should we replicate everyone’s effort? Hmmm…
So welcome the new Vuedo.com! I am combing the Internet looking for helpful screencasts so that there is one easy place that people can come to find help with what they are doing. Of course I still plan on creating my own screencasts, but now I’m just filling in the holes I see in what everyone else is already doing.
Visit Vuedo and Subscribe! Let me know what you’d like to see there.