Thursday, January 28, 2010
(A shorter version of this article posted at BlogHer.) Whether Apple’s announcement of the tablet dubbed iPad made you long for one, scoff at how unnecessary they are, or crack jokes about the choice of name, you have to admit it was a huge announcement. In Internet terms alone, the number of tweets as the [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
Say Hello to the Open Source Decade by Laura Scott. Open Source has been around for quite some time, but odds are most people you ask won’t know what “open source” is. This isn’t because open source is obscure, but rather it has slipped into the mainstream, and unless you’re already in the know, there’s [...]
Friday, September 18, 2009
Want to bid on a computer once owned by Gene Roddenberry and presumably used to write Star Trek episodes? According to Where No Mac Had Gone Before you can do that. It’s serial number 0001, possibly a Mac Plus but maybe not exactly a Mac Plus. Looks like a Mac I once had, except there’s [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
Backgrounds in CSS: Everything you need to know by Michael Martin in Smashing Magazine is an excellent post and worthy of a class reading assignment if you’re teaching web development. The article includes changes to the background property coming in CSS3. At a Webuquerque meeting on Podcasting and Vodcasting recently, speaker Vince Ascoli mentioned in [...]
Snow Leopard Assistive Technology Compatibility List is a very helpful compilation of what works and what doesn’t work on Snow Leopard. From ATMac. There are so many posts about HTML 5 and RDFa flying around these days that it’s hard to keep up with them all. But here’s one that takes a different approach, Burningbird’s [...]
Every once in a while I get infected with the desire–the urgent NEED–for an iPhone. So far, I haven’t succumed to the urge because it will be so expensive to get out of the contract I have with my current phone company. I need your advice.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
15 Things Every Web Developer Should Be Thankful For lists some great things to be thankful for. You can suggest more objects of your gratitude if the list isn’t inclusive enough for you. Way back in 2005 I published a rant here called Why colleges should stop teaching Fireworks as a primary web design tool. [...]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
This is the first of several interviews with women in technology. Today you’ll learn about Shelley Powers. Shelley is perhaps best known as a writer. Her most recent books are Learning JavaScript and Painting the Web. She’s also a programmer and web developer, and she applies a powerful and logical mind to everything she does. [...]
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