Thursday, November 16, 2006
Panera Wishes You A Cup Half Full Originally uploaded by cynomyso. Half Full? I realize this comes from the "Cup Half Empty" saying, but by itself it sure doesn't sound like much of a toast. "Here's to a tolerable life..." Maybe they are trying to save some money by encouraging half-full cups of coffee...
Monday, November 6, 2006
I've written before about geotagging photographs. This has become super easy since Flickr has added a geotagging function in the last few months. Sometimes, this may not be enough though. Tomorrow, my family and I are headed to Maine and plan to do a little boating (cold boating). I was interested in the idea of taking my GPS and my camera and finding a way to link waypoint data from the gps with photos that I take.
Friday, October 27, 2006
See photos from max attendees here
Friday, October 27, 2006
Max 2006 Wed Party at PalmsOriginally uploaded by cynomyso. Max 2006 is over so I guess that means that its time to take a look back over the last couple of days. One thought that was going through my head this evening was how much this conference confirmed my feelings that web development is getting more exciting and doing anything but standing still. There was so much excitement at this conference around new ideas and directions such as Apollo, Flex and integration of PDF and Flash technologies.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Max 2006 Tues General Session - Blue Man Group Originally uploaded by cynomyso. The Blue Man Group opened this year's MAX conference. Fun to watch, but sure seemed like a commercial for their nightly show here at the venetian. $99 a ticket?! Ha ha ha...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
I’m out in Las Vegas this week with some co-workers attending the Adobe MAX conference. It’s a little different this year as it is the first year since Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia (whose conference it was before). Here’s what I’ve taken from today: Adobe is providing an unlimited amount of PDF kool-aid. I don't think that many have much against the format itself, but most everyone I know and talk with groan when we think about the Acrobat player.
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Remember the Day of Atonement (tags: HSLuthBlogs) Touching God's Heart? (tags: HSLuthBlogs) Is ColdFusion Harming Itself? (tags: coldfusion) Social Networking: Time For A Silver Bullet A social networking newbie? Want to get up to speed? This article will give you the history, the present and show you where it maybe going. (tags: social) Teaching What We Donâ??t Know Interesting article in Tuesdayâ?
Friday, September 15, 2006
MaxUP is a un-conference that will run in parallel to max in October. An un-conference is a conference where you must participate to attend. Think open-mic night at the coffee shop, then require that everyone take the stage if they would like to listen. Here's the details.
Friday, September 15, 2006
Google plans to add 200 years of newspaper history to its search archives. Perhaps they will run into the same problems with this that they have encountered in trying to put books online but I hope that they succeed. The internet, I believe, has introduced a barrier to history that has not existed before. If I want to look something up on the internet and learn about it, I have to consider how long ago that event happened.
Friday, September 15, 2006
The Call for Participation for NECC 2007 in Atlanta is Open. Deadline is October 4.
Friday, September 15, 2006
Wikispaces is giving away 100,000 FREE wikis to educators. Get yours!
Friday, September 15, 2006
Dan Saffer helps the world understand designers.
Friday, September 15, 2006
New to CSS? Here is a fantastic guide to starting out with CSS.
Friday, September 15, 2006
This isn’t as easy to do as it sounds. Horizontally center, easy; Vertically-center, tricky. Here’s a shot at a solution.
Friday, September 15, 2006
Here’s a site design that takes the painfully boring topic of insurance and makes it fun.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Read/Write Web’s Top 10 Firefox Web 2.0 Add-ons
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Flash is Ten years old! Flash back at the Flash anniversary site.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Here’s another one of those things that I know I need to learn and start using, and haven’t. The Big Picture on Microformats
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Where do you stand on software/video piracy? I don’t know anybody that’s all for it, but we all seem to have a line that we think is all right to cross. This video compares piracy to things that are pretty absurd…
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
WebWag is another AJAX-driven start page. Looks great.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Digital Web Magazine - News - Article: The Big Picture on Microformats: You've heard the buzz about microformats, and you've probably been meaning to use them on your sites—perhaps they're sitting somewhere near the bottom of your list of things to do. In his new article, John Allsopp gives us a snapshot of what's happening with microformats today, and he challenges us all to move them closer to the top of the pile.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Bytespring is a content management system built in ColdFusion. Jason Sheedy has posted a FAQ
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
I haven’t posted for a couple of days, but it’s not because I haven’t been blogging. Several months ago I started to move forward with creating a site where video tutorials could be shared. I had gotten frustrated with the cost of commercial services for what they were offering, while at the same time depressed by the free alternatives. Chris Pultz and I each created one series of videos to get started, and neither of us got further than that.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Ted On Flex - Introducing FlexTV Geotagging Photos with Flock Interview with George Moore, GM Windows Live Digital Web Magazine - News - New Accessibility Book
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Ben has a new article up on the Adobe developer center regarding using PDF Forms with ColdFusion MX7. While he notes that these abilities pale in comparison to what will be possible with Scorpio (Next major version of ColdFusion) they offer some things that could be useful now. The two uses that he illustrates is populating a PDF form with database data AND extracting form data from a PDF form. It requires a custom tag, but looks to be very easy once in place.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
mentalaxis » Badgr 2.0 … Bigger images? You got it! Berners-Lee Disses Web 2.0 Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog: Canvas ColdFusion Wiki NY Times Getting more people to your blog : The Bit Bucket: The Blog of Lucas Sherwood macZOT! » Mac Pilot - Customize Your System Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO » SEO Advice: Writing useful articles that readers will love
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
An article on Vitamin today discussed why the author does not use social sites. The ending argument was that the author didn’t have time for their own work and they certainly didn’t have time to be social on one of these new sites.
I understand where they are coming from and have felt this myself from time to time.
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Barely 8 hours after saying that I wouldn’t be doing a link dump anymore, I found something to keep it going. A pre-beta (scary) of NetNewsWire is available and one thing it does is allow you to make on easy post with links to all of the tabs that you have open. Sooo, I can read through all of the news and pick out the few articles that I think are interesting, then with two clicks post links to those tabs to the blog.
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Light text on dark background vs. readability | 456 Berea Street Digital Web Magazine - Competitive Analysis Marco Casario,hands on Adobe world: Acrobat August Newsletter by ArobatUsers.com Development - Post details: 5 things I love – and 5 things I hate – about Adobe Lightroom (part I) SurveyMonkey.com - The easiest way to create online surveys. Vitamin Features » Why I don’t use social software
Monday, August 21, 2006
I’m sure I’ve brought it up before, but TextMate is an incredible text editor that hides behind a very simple interface. A new video on their video cast shows some simple features that make great use of Google APIs in creating links in HTML documents.