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Voices That Matter

Writing & Doing

Voices That Matter in Nashville

Pearson Education presented their Voices That Matter: Web Design conference in Nashville earlier this month, featuring sessions led by some leading web and design authors. I’ve been reading their work for years, so when I (as a Pearson employee) was offered the chance to attend the conference, I jumped at it.
Presenters included big [...]

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Thinking & Seeing

IETester Test Your Site in Multiple Instances of IE With IETester »

One of the great annoyances in web design is testing multiple versions of the execrable Internet Explorer. Since it’s used by such a large percentage of people browsing the web, problems with its display of elements on a web page can’t be ignored. Thankfully, Microsoft has been addressing the issues, and their version 7 of [...]

Notepad++ 5.0 Released »

Free editor Notepad++ hit the 5.0 mark this past weekend, and it certainly is speedier. I was rumbling along on v4.8 for the past few months, so I got the benefit of two release cycles with my upgrade. Here’s what I get to work with now:
v5.0 enhancements
1. Improve Notepad++ performance - on startup and on [...]

OpenGoo OpenGoo: A Sticky Application »

OpenGoo is an updated branch of activeCollab, the recently-gone-commercial Basecamp clone. I like what the developers have done with the tool. Basically, here is one way the app workflow can go:

Create a workspace (rather than activeCollab’s projects)
Add tasks, assigning each to a workspace
Assign tasks to users
Users assign tags to [...]

Portrait of the artist as a creepy young man Twitter

Well, whaddaya know? Cheney and Gonzalez indicted for federal prisoner abuse. . Go Texas!