I’ve got two items of note for web developers. One is good…one is evil. First the good news…
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I did it. I uploaded my new site design, and made it live. Now I need to create the blog template using this same style.

I’ve recently been victim to a number of software roll outs that were being managed by other people. Each of these experiences brought a single question to mind…What are they thinking? Either they stopped teaching best practices at the university, or I have had the distinct pleasure of witnessing projects that followed some unique system of development designed to screw everything up. In either case these recent experiences have compelled me to elaborate on what I feel are the cardinal rules for software/web development practices. Continue Reading »

Companies need to check to see if there’s already a solution before solving problems. The new wheel is Tabblo, a slick web based technology for internet users to print blogs, images on flickr, and other web sites. Whoo-hoo now I can print web pages… Hmmm I don’t remember not being able to print web pages before. Well here’s the story. Continue Reading »

It was recently reported that Microsoft was discovered to have payed off companies to join the standards organization deciding OOXML. On the surface this is shady, but there are longer term consequences as well. Continue Reading »