Dave Shea from mezzoblue.com has posted a fantastic article title – A Roadmap to Standards. Dave is best known as a web standards advocate and the creator of the CSS Zen Garden .
I had the pleasure of inviting Dave to speak to my Digital Media Technologies class in March. Dave’s knowledge of CSS and Web Standards is incredible and our students learned a great deal from his session If you ever have a chance to hear Dave speak, make sure you attend!
Zend.com has a great article on the Top 21 PHP progamming mistakes. The article is broken down into three parts:
I thought that the title of this post just might have caught your attention! Last week, I posted that the students in my Digital Media Technologies program are holding their Graduate Show in Victoria, British Columbia on May 1st. One of the door prizes will be a 15GB Apple iPod. So if you happen to be a web developer or graphic designer who lives in British Columbia or the Pacific Northwest, I would like to invite you to attend Surfacing 2004.
This event is presented by the graduating students of Malaspina University-College’s Digital Media Technology and Graphic Design programs.
The exhibition is on Saturday, May 1, 2004, from 9:00am – 4:00pm, in the Balmoral room at the Empress Hotel in Victoria. Students will showcase their work in animation, design, illustration, typography, video and web. Industry professionals, potential employers and the general public are all welcome to come down and see the innovate work done by students in these two highly successful programs.
Oracle has a nice article that will help you Understand the New Features of JSP 2.0. JSP 2.0 is an upgrade to JSP 1.2 with several new and interesting features that make the life of web application developers and designers easier.
Space.app provides “virtual workspaces” for Mac OS X to help you to organize your use of the desktop. Space.app is provided free of charge for individual and commercial use.
You can switch to the virtual workspaces by using:
The Mozilla Foundation is Seeking a Designer for it’s $1,000,000 Mozillion Fundraising Site. This could be a really great opportunity for a designer to really get his/her name out there (a big nudge to my students!).
Over the last 9 months, the Mozilla Foundation has raised close to $100,000 in online donations from more than 3000 users (including me) and they hope to create a big push to raise $1,000,000 over the next year.
I’m not sure how accurate this is, but the Unofficial Google Weblog is reporting that Google Now Crawling Flash Code. The screenshot he presents certianly shows that the source file of the returned result is in fact a SWF.
IBM Developer Works has a very nice collection of articles that outline Best Practices in JSP.
The articles focus on introductor skills for JSP programmers and make a nice starting point for those of you who may be beginning or thinking of starting to learn JSP.
“Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of your very own Web Designer! But now what do you do?” How to Care for Your Web Designer is a four part series by Eris Free that pokes fun at client relationships with their web designers.
Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of your very own Web Designer! But now what do you do?
Microsoft Expression is a free illustration application for OSX (the site says it’s available for XP, but I can’t find the link). Expressions was created by a company called Creature House, and it looks like they were recently purchased by MS.
When I showed this to a colleague, his first comment was “I wonder what Microsoft’s angle is”. They have tried to compete in the digital imaging market before with little or no success (ie. Image Composer). I wonder if they are looking for a vector based tool for Longhorn (I have read that the Longhorn GUI will be vector based using XAML).
Hmmmm.
