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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’m thinking about switching from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice. Have you tried it? What was your reaction and opinion? How well does it work when you are exchanging .doc files with other writers and making changes? Thanks for any comments and advice.
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Paul Graham gave this talk, What Business Can Learn from Open Source, at Oscon 2005. It is long, but worth the time. His points relate to the passions of the unruly and unpaid who create open source or innovative weblogs. It ties right into the point I was making in my previous post about the [...]
The Web Credibility Project – Stanford University: “As part of the Persuasive Technology Lab, we are investigating such questions as: What causes people to believe (or not believe) what they find on the Web? What strategies do users employ in evaluating the credibility of online sources? What contextual and design factors influence these assessments and [...]
Here’s an interesting open source tool: Nvu – The Complete Web Authoring System for Linux, Macintosh and Windows Nvu allows page editing using tools based on the Mozilla composer and FTP. It claims to work on any platform and looks promising, although I have not downloaded and tried it myself. While we’re talking open source, [...]
Scott Moschella’s Plastic Bugs – Announcing GIMPshop I’ve mentioned the open source graphics software GIMP here before. Now Scott Moschella has made a version that has menus very similar to what Photoshop users are familiar with and that works on Mac OSX (10.3).
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
CocoaMySQL – A MySQL GUI for Mac OS X This is from sourceforge.net, the great open source folks with so many great items for both Windows and Mac.
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