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 no [...]
The Open Web Tools Directory lists the best available tools for Design, Code, Test, Debug, Deploy and Docs in a very cool HTML 5 display using the canvas element.
HTML 5: nav ambiguity resolved at zeldman.com is interesting because The Zeldman has the same problem I have with the HTML 5 specs, and also because the [...]
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Meet Addison Berry, a woman who traveled a roundabout path into tech and is now one of the most visible leaders in the open source content management world of Drupal. My thanks for Addi for agreeing to answer some questions and let us get to know her.
Q: Let’s start off with Drupal. You work for [...]
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.
Q: [...]
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Palin’s experience in just 12 minutes. An analysis from Lawrence Lessig.
ARIA on the fast track. Ian Lloyd’s thoughts on the Web Accessiblity Initiative’s Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite and what it might do to validation.
Open Office for Aqua. Burningbird puts the open source office suite through its paces and finds it a good [...]
Monday, September 15, 2008
This was my first BarCamp. I always figured they were full of youthful geeks and I would have no place among them. But when Michael Bernstein started leaving comments on this blog and talking about it with me, I decided to give it a try.
It was one of my best decisions ever. I meet several [...]
Monday, February 25, 2008
It was cats and kids month in my personal life. In my writing life, here’s what I did at eHow in February. (The CSS attribute selector article appeared here first, in an easier to use format.)
How to Work with Tables in Nvu
How to Work with Images in Nvu
How to Externalize JavaScripts and CSS Files for [...]
As I said yesterday, I was off to play with the Wordpress theme generator. It took me a few minutes to figure out what the various labels on the forms controlling the selections meant. I couldn’t quite squeeze the whole page plus the theme preview on the right into my available screen real estate, so [...]
Those on a budget (aren’t we all) will love some of the suggestions for free software, site designs and other tools at Design Vitality’s The Open Source Web Design Toolbox: 100 Tools, Resources, and Template Sources. There are some open source HTML, CSS, and image editing tools listed that might appeal to web designers and [...]