Events
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
It may not be often that you give your mouse a lot of thought, but I just had one of those moments where I thought “Wow! What a great mouse."
I use a Logitech VX when I’m portable and a Logitech MX at my desktop. These are basically the same mouse with some small differences that make each better for the environment they were designed to be used in. The key feature on both is a scroll wheel that is able to work (as many scroll wheels do) in a mode that sort of clicks as you scroll, and a mode that is unique where it is free to spin like the Price-is-right Big Wheel.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Thanks again to those of you that attended my workshop in Columbus on Tuesday. Here are some of the resources that I told you I would post here:
Firefox Add-ons
Firebug (Firebox-based CSS Inspector) Firefox Web Development Toolbar MeasureIt (screen ruler) ColorZilla (Color grabber) Browser Testing
Evolt.org (Browser Archives) Install multiple version of IE on Windows XP Web Sites
CSS Zen Garden CSS Beauty: CSS Design Showcase CSS Vault: Inspiring Creativity CSS Hack Glish: CSS Layout Techniques Layout-o-matic A List Apart Digital-Web Magazine Stylegala The Web Standards Project Useful books
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Monday, April 16, 2007
It’s hard to say anything about this without sounding insensitive, but unfortunately Wikipedia sometimes shines when there are terrible events. Here is Wikipedia’s coverage of today’s shootings at Virginia Tech University.
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
iPod Observer: Analyst is Skeptical of Apple TV I’m not saying that Apple TV is going to be a big hit. I really don’t know. I do think that this analyst is missing the point. The Jupiter analyst doesn’t see the point of such a device when one can get the content over the air or via cable/satellite. I think that the iTunes store coupled with Apple TV causes one to question the need for shelling out $50 to $100 or more each month on cable or satellite.
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Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Today is the deadline for presentation submissions for the National Educational Computing Conference occuring in Atlanta next summer. I got mine in last night. I proposed a three hour workshop covering the creation of web pages using web standards (xhtml, css, xml, etc.). I’m not real hopeful as it sounds dull and I was tired when I wrote the submission so I may have not sold the idea real well. Sometime in December I’ll learn whether I’m in.
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Saturday, April 29, 2006
Explorer (I’m not sure what else to call him) Dan Buettner gave an impressive presentation at the NETA spring conference on Friday morning. You can catch his presentations (keynote and followup) on the NETA podcast page. You can view the web site of his current project, Blue Zones, here. Finally, here is a link to his latest article in National Geographic on the same topic.
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Friday, April 28, 2006
The keynote and feature presentations at this year’s NETA conference are being podcast. You can find them here.
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Friday, April 28, 2006
Yesterday I helped Kristi Peters with her Firefox workshop. Here are some extensions that were referenced during that workshop.
Tab Sidebar
Forecastfox Search Engines
technorati tags: neta06, firefox
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Thursday, April 27, 2006
I will be at the NETA Spring Conference in Omaha today and tomorrow (April 27th and 28th, 2006). I am teaching a workshop on Thursday morning and will be attending the conference the rest of the time.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Have you used SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys? It’s a fantastic text-editing program that allows you to collaborate with others on the same document at the same time. If you need to do real-time collaboration on a document, it’s the best thing I have ever seen. If you don’t, it is still a fantastic editor that recognizes many code languages.
Why am I telling you this now? Because for today only, it is the the feature software in BLOGZOT 2.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005
This morning I worked with two students from Cambridge, Nebraska on web development topics. Here are the links and other resources that I mentioned during that time.
h3. Downloadable Files
"Completed _America_ Project":[www.brianfitz.net/america_f...](http://www.brianfitz.net/america_finished.zip) h3. Web Sites
"CSS Zen Garden":[www.csszengarden.com](http://www.csszengarden.com/) This site show what's possible with CSS by inviting CSS designers to contribute stylesheets to style a common html file. "CSS Vault":[www.cssvault.com](http://www.cssvault.com/) A showcase of CSS sites "
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Monday, October 17, 2005
Some observations and thoughts from the first day at Macromedia’s MAX Conference:
Flex is awesome and the price may be right now. I’m frustrated that right now there is no way to develop flex applications on the Macintosh (that I can see). The code is just XML, but you have to have something that can compile the SWF file and that seems to be Windows-only right now.
Stephen Elop (Macromedia CEO) took quite a swing at Microsoft and their new flash-like features in Avalon.
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Thursday, October 6, 2005
Hasting workshopers: Here are the final notes and downloads from yesterday’s workshop…
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Thursday, October 6, 2005
Thank you to those that attended the workshop at ESU 9 in Hastings on Thursday. I really had a fun time out there and hope that each of you got something from it when it was all finished &em; other than a headache. ;-) I’m working on getting some final wrapup pieces posted here tonight or tomorrow.
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Thursday, October 6, 2005
I’m in Hastings, Nebraska today to work with 16 victims willing participants on Dreamweaver, CSS, XHTML and other standards-based issue. It’s going to be a great day…
“View the Workshop Outline”:www.brianfitz.net
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Again, for any interested, here are the presentation slides and handout from my "Next Web" presentation on Tuesday at the Midwest Internet Institute in Lincoln. View Presentation | Download Handout
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005
For anybody that might be interested. Here are the files that I used during my session on cascading style sheets Monday afternoon at the Midwest Internet Institute in Lincoln. They are included here as a zip file that you can expand and proceed to play around with if you wish. The presentation itself is also here. Please be patient with these while they download as my server uplink is not very fast.
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