November 23, 2005 – 12:52 pm
There seems to be a lot of confusion in the Web community about what is Web 1.0 (old school) and what is Web 2.0 (new school) application design. Here is my solution. Since application development is iterative and the Web certainly didn’t change overnight, I say it is OK to refer to sites, applications, and [...]
November 22, 2005 – 3:17 pm
After posting the last message about Clay, I once again found my web server unreachable. (Yet another S4Y network outage confirmed by trace routes at www.dnsstuff.com.) Imagine calling your server company for support and hearing the following. Call at 1:15 PM PST today: Server4You Technical Support Call (MP3) I would like to say that this [...]
October 11, 2005 – 4:12 pm
Unless you live in Siberia without an Internet connection you have probably heard, or will soon hear the term “Web 2.0” used in reference to exciting new web sites and applications like Google’s Gmail, Google Maps, Wikipedia, the Flickr image sharing site, 37signals’ Basecamp online project management site, and more. But what exactly does the [...]
September 30, 2005 – 11:05 am
The Web is increasingly becoming an important resource in many areas of life including education, employment, government, commerce, health care, recreation, and more. What you may or may not realize is that not all web sites are created equal, at least when it comes to access for people with various forms of physical and cognitive [...]
September 16, 2005 – 6:19 pm
It’s here, and it’s here in a big way – finally a Linux-based open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange good enough to call a killer application. Sporting an ultra slick AJAX web-based front end, Zimbra combines email, calendar, and directory server applications. Zimbra is fully compatible with existing desktop programs such as Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple [...]
September 13, 2005 – 11:58 pm
Learning Ruby has been on my 43 Things list for some time now. The programming that I do for work is mostly PHP and in my free time I try to study more advanced PHP and MySQL concepts and topics. But something got to me today, perhaps reading one too many Digg.com posts about Ruby, [...]
August 30, 2005 – 11:59 am
Have you noticed that in less than a decade the Internet has quietly become the de facto source for all knowledge and information? When you wish to look something up (a fact, an address, company information, etc.) where do you go? Ten-to-one says it’s Google or another Internet search engine. What this implies is that [...]
August 15, 2005 – 12:34 pm
If you are a working web designer or web application developer, one thing is clear — you must know CSS these days. This article was just Slashdotted, 10 Best Resources for CSS. Two resources that significantly helped me in my CSS journey are CSS2 from VTC and The CSS Anthology from SitePoint. Learn to separate [...]
August 15, 2005 – 11:32 am
Why it’s important to love your work, why everyone should use open source, and why the most productive people don’t work in traditional offices. That’s right. It’s a new essay from Paul Graham, What Business Can Learn from Open Source. Print a copy and tell your boss you’ll be working from a comfy chair at [...]
