DharmaMike

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Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:02:13 -0500

An insightful post from a former Google engineer about Google+

The most interesting thing to me about this post isn’t the comparison of Google+ and Facebook nor the thoughts about Circles. It’s his comments about Google culture:

I was also growing increasingly frustrated at Google’s sluggish engineering culture. I have previously described how the toolchain is not well-suited to fast, iterative development and rapid innovation.

And…

Facebook has a hacker culture, they’re only a handful of engineers, and they develop with quick, adaptable tools like PHP. Especially when compared with the slow moving mammoths we were using at Google.

I guess the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

How-To: Create Your Own iTunes LP

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:19:57 -0500

How-To: Create Your Own iTunes LP

http://blog.crazybob.org/2010/11/java-se-7-8.html

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:37:12 -0600

http://blog.crazybob.org/2010/11/java-se-7-8.html:

Bob Lee, creator of Guice, declines the invitation to join the Java 7 & 8 expert groups.

Photo

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:00:09 -0500

"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:53:00 -0500

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”

- Clay Shirky

via browsertoolkit.com

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:22:05 -0500

via browsertoolkit.com

rem @ > 140 characters: Hold off on deploying HTML5 in websites?

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:11:12 -0500

rem @ > 140 characters: Hold off on deploying HTML5 in websites?:

remy:

[Please note that this post is intentionally unedited. It’s a raw rant that would probably go down better in a pub. Since we’re not in a pub, this medium will have to do.]

So, go read this equally link baiting article on why you should hold off HTML5. Then come back and let’s talk.

I’ll say…

Would the real Leonardo DiCaprio please stand up?

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:42:32 -0500

To School or Not to School

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:34:13 -0500

To School or Not to School:

“The most important thing is to know what you’re doing”

My mission with Aptitoo.com is to provide affordable, practical web design and development training for designers, developers, and small business owners who want skills that will help them achieve success in their field. I’ve had over 13 years of experience as a web development professional and spent several years teaching college courses in web design and development. I know the difference between practical use and academic theory.

This article on Webdesigner Depot speaks to the fact that formal education (read: a college degree) can give one an edge when looking for a career or changing jobs in our industry. But, even without a degree, one can still be competitive in the job market if you know what you’re doing and continually work to increase your knowledge. At Aptitoo we know how. So will you.

HTML5Rocks

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:27:11 -0500

HTML5Rocks:

The folks at Google have set up a righteous portal of demos, tutorials, and resources for HTML5 development.

HTML5 Doctor, helping you implement HTML5 today

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:21:00 -0500

HTML5 Doctor, helping you implement HTML5 today:

A collection of articles relating to HTML5 and how it can be used now, before the specification is formalized.

Spicing Up Your Website With jQuery Goodness

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:06:47 -0500

Spicing Up Your Website With jQuery Goodness:

Here’s a useful post on Smashing Magazine written by a member of the Zurb team explaining how and why to add the following jQuery goodness to a site:

Image uploading with the Ajax Upload plugin
Validating textual form input with a textchange plugin
Image annotation with a couple of annotation plugins
A CSS grid with the handy CSS Grid Builder

How Do You Learn?

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:37:58 -0500

How Do You Learn?:

As a (soon to be) provider of training, I’m curious about this. Do the majority of people learn best from books on their own, by viewing other peoples work, by being taught, or some combination of those?

The CSS white-space Property Explained

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:01:58 -0500

The CSS white-space Property Explained:

Learn the proper way to handle “nowrap” and “pre” with CSS.

The Ultimate Roundup of Indispensable and Helpful HTML5 Tutorials

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:09:00 -0500

The Ultimate Roundup of Indispensable and Helpful HTML5 Tutorials

FireQuery

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:42:23 -0500

FireQuery:

a Firefox extension integrated with Firebug…brilliant!

No HTML 5 for you!

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:20:17 -0500

No HTML 5 for you!:

So Apple decided to put up a showcase of HTML 5 features but, in their infinite wisdom, decided to only let Safari browsers display them. The issue appears to be that they’re doing simple checking of the User-Agent header rather than using something more robust like Modernizr which would allow them to display demos based on browser capabilities.

jQTouch

Fri, 28 May 2010 16:07:12 -0500

jQTouch:

An open source jQuery plugin for creating mobile websites that look and feel like native iPhone apps. Some additional documentation is available in the project Wiki on Google Code http://code.google.com/p/jqtouch/

“Elric” by tjtrewin

Fri, 28 May 2010 11:05:48 -0500

“Elric” by tjtrewin

Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory

Wed, 19 May 2010 14:52:05 -0500

Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory