book learnin’... Wanting to learn more about this I have been reading up at a great site; Ajaxian, as well as others. I have also been educating myself on some of the libraries that are popping up as well; mootools, GWT, YUI and more so that I can begin extending my programming skills with the most appropriate solution...

Great idea, poorly executed... With the release of The Simpsons Movie just around the corner, there have been all kinds of promotions thrown at us over the past weeks. From rebranding 7-11s around the country to QuickEMarts to a couple of websites, their is no lack of market awareness. One of the problems with so much promotional...

Site analysis... Standards-BasedStandards-based design insure the consistency of the visual presentation of the design across browsers and platforms. Insuring the separation of content and presentation allows the broadest market access to information contained on the site. A semantically coded, valid page offers the...

Speech Bubbles... Something fun, but mostly useless for commercial prospects, is Speech Bubble. Installing this into your browser allows you to add a speech bubble to any photo on the web and share it with your friends. There are some sites that will not work (i.e. Flash, larger sites like NY Times, etc.) but overall...

iPhone Dev Camp followup... The follow-up to the barcamp for the iPhone was quite productive. There is a list of apps available at their site.

MacUpdate Bundle... MacUpdate has started offering a great bundle of software for a ridiculously low price. This is also the basis for MacHeist 2, which begins today as well. [EDIT] This is not the basis of MacHeist 2, but rather a smaller bit of joy called skunkworks…my bad.

iDevelop 4 iPhone... Apple has officially launched the iPhone developer’s section to their site. It seems fairly light in offerings and logging into my developer account does not offer much more information. This weekend there is a Barcamp iPhone developer meeting in San Francisco; hopefully we will learn more about...

Macheist 2... The time has come for MacHeist 2. The first MacHeist was such a huge success, even with the hiccups, that the directorate is back with more. Let’s hope some of the issues that hindered the overall experience have been ironed out. I am looking forward to participating in this one.