January 5th, 2006 | Published in Uncategorized
10/20/30 rule of Powerpoint.:
Garret makes some great points about presentations and what you need to do. It starts with a reference to the Guy K article of the above name. There has been no worse tool for stagnating and ruining many a presentation. I don’t know how many terrible education presentations I went to that were a click and read powerpoint presentation
(Via Dangerousmeta.)
January 5th, 2006 | Published in Blogroll
Total speculation alert. I don’t want anyone to read further into this than what I say, since I have no insider knowledge. But I was just re-reading a post of my own from December, Macromedia No More, and one paragraph particularly jumped out at me this time ’round.
Which brings us back to the web. AJAX is hot, but Javascript can’t do everything. When faced with its limitations, Flash is currently the most practical alternative. From a business standpoint, it’s a no-brainer to develop and promote this emerging/existing platform (in whatever form it may take). So I’d expect to see a lot more effort toward making Flash development easier.
Speculation is cool, I don’t do flash one, because sites that use it generally annoy me, and two because the tools are too damn expensive, and three I am a no talent hack 
(Via Dave Shea’s mezzoblue.)
January 5th, 2006 | Published in CSS
CSS Beauty - SkillShare - My Top 12 CSS Articles/Tricks of 2005 (one for each month):
Here’s a list of articles and tricks that I’ve archived over the course of the 2005 year…
I went through my archives for every month and picked the ones that I thought were the best.
this is a good useful set of tips…
January 5th, 2006 | Published in Blogroll, HTML, JavaScript/AJAX
Script.aculo.us 1.5.1 includes new effects:
Do you always wait for the first point release after a final one? Well, Script.aculo.us has just released version 1.5.1 on the heals of the 1.5 release that came with Rails 1.0.
Dynamic loading of components allows you to tune your site per-page for including only the script.aculo.us components you need:
<script src="scriptaculous.js?load=effects,dragdrop" type="text/javascript"></script>And if you are on the bleeding edge of Rails you can use the latest and greatest with:
The dynamic loading is cool, and so is the toggling of effects.
(Via Ajaxian Blog.)
January 5th, 2006 | Published in Blogroll, HTML
Snugtech.com is offering a free service called safaritest to all
that are interested. You enter a URL into a form, select a width, and the type of image file you would like and the app
returns an image of that website rendered on Safari.This is great for those web designers that can’t afford
a Mac but who still care what their sites will look like for Mac users.
It works but it just gives a picture, remember if your testing make sure the site works, not just looks good.
January 5th, 2006 | Published in PHP
Ilia Alshanetsky’s Blog: GDChart & Fileinfo Releases:
According to this new post from Ilia Alshanetsky’s blog, he’s wrapped up new versions of his PECL extensions, Fileinfo
Why does pecl make it so hard to find documentation…
(Via PHPDeveloper.org.)
January 5th, 2006 | Published in Blogroll, HTML, JavaScript/AJAX, PHP
Claw: PHP frameworks get Ajax:
Claw is one of the latest Ajax PHP frameworks.
The latest version of Claw has integrated Prototype.
Another day another framework. Don’t know how much of this is really framework or the egotistical rendering of a ’smarty’ person. Let them eat CAKE.
Ok that was a little snide, but read the news on the site and the ego of this developer is pretty outragous for something that gives a fairly weak first impression. Leverages Smarty for the View stuff. So nothing new there… And can’t see signs of it out in the world. I can’t image that there are any of us that have developed for the web for any length of time that don’t have some dumb ass framework of our own. I did, but have jumped with both feet and my mouth agape into CakePHP for now.
(Via Ajaxian Blog.)
January 5th, 2006 | Published in Blogroll, Windows
Web developers are becoming increasingly frustrated at the lack of convergence of the major browser vendors. We need a level playing field!
CSS is a powerful technology. Many of its more advanced features go unused by web developers because of Explorer’s poor support of CSS standards.
don’t know how much it helps…