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I found this treat on Robert Scoble's site this evening:
Steven Vore points out that TopStyle is one of the first products he's seen that has a weblog built into it. Here's the Weblog. Update: here's a picture of how it looks inside TopStyle.
Cool - I own TopStyle 3.0 - guess I have a new blog to read now!
Maybe we should use the Xopus WYSIWYG XML editor for Roller instead of Ekit? It's pretty cool - at least the demo (might be IE/Windows only) I tried. The demo allowed me to type directly on the page and to change formatting of text simply by right-clicking. This screenshot seems to indicate a different editing mode than the one I saw. Best of all it appears to work in Mozilla and is open source. Release date? Currently we are working hard to release the final version before the OSCOM conference end of September.
Bitflux Editor also appears to be very cool - same type of concept with editing of an HTML page like you would in Dreamweaver. See the demo here. The good news? It is another open source project. The bad news? It only works in Mozilla. Nothing like shutting out 90% of Internet users.
All this good stuff found originally at Gerhard Froehlich's blog, who appears to have found it from Slashdot.
I forgot to post these last week - but for you Web UI developers - favelets (a.k.a. bookmarklets) can sure make your development life a lot easier.
A bookmarklet is a simply a javascript script masquerading as a URL. The pseudo-protocol javascript: tells the browser to have javascript interpret what follows. Otherwise they can be treated just like any other url, by inserting into a link, pasting directly into the location bar, or bookmarked or added to your favourites. Like many people I have the ones I use most often added to my links bar, where they become handy extensions to the browser's functionality.
Here are some good links for some cool favelets. Most of them seem to be targeting IE on Windows/Mac - and I found that some didn't work on XP/IE6 SP1. But still, they're great for validation and showing table/div borders.
In my search of these resources, I found www.web-graphics.com which appears to be a good blog on cutting edge web-ui technologies. Cool - I'll add it to my daily reads list. BTW, I've added a feature to Roller where you can make your Bookmark and Newsfeed folders collapsible/expandable in modern browsers. When I upgrade this site, it might be cool to split up my "Blogrolling" links into Java, Web UI and Good Reads - we'll see. Most of you are probably like me and are using Mozilla bookmark tabs feature to get your daily reads.
In the course of this week, several speakers mentioned they had blogs and I even found a few via Google. So here they are for you to follow and read as you wish.
Marc's Voice is the blog of Marc Cantor, who gave the keynote on Monday. Marc is a great speaker and seems to have made his money via inventing Director from Macromedia. He seems to follow anything Broadband (in the true sense) related and is ready for streaming video. He seems to be a bitter about Apple, and mentioned that they steal good ideas from people - maybe they got one from him. I think it would be fun to have a conversation with this guy about anything.
Would I have a beer with him? Yes.
Update Rate: Every few hours.
lab404 * 2002 is a blog (and wacky design site) from Curt Cloninger. I attended one of Curt's sessions, and his site looks like some of the sites he showed in his session. He appears to do a lot of off-the-wall websites that designers might like. I don't particularly care for them, his site in particular hurts my eyes. He appeared to be really nervous in his presentation, so couldn't tell much about his personality. I'm not a designer and he is, so we probably wouldn't have much to talk about over a beer.
Would I have a beer with him? Nope.
Update Rate: Once a week.
Andrew Porter Glendinning blogs about client-side scripting and about his personal life. Seemed to know a ton about the DOM and other UI-related scripting stuff. He gave a good speech and peaked my interests with his session.
Would I have a beer with him? Sure.
Update Rate: Every other week.
james hong's Radio Weblog seems to just cover James's personal life (at least in the last month). James is one of the founders of Hot or Not. He and his brother, Tony, started xmethods.net. I attended one of his sessions on web services.
Would I have a beer with him? Yes.
Update Rate: Every few days.
megnut.com - a weblog by meg hourihan covers the world of blogging and seems to also cover cooking. Meg is one of the founders of Blogger so this is probably a great blog to follow if you're interested in micro-CMS's. She uses Moveable Type - to find out why, click on the "Why" link at the bottom-right of her site. I didn't hear her speak much, but she seemed like a nice lady.
Would I have a beer with her? Sure.
Update Rate: Every day.
Chris Dix's Thoughtpost is "Just another .NET and Web Services blog." I didn't attend any of this guy's sessions, so can't comment on his personality.
Would I have a beer with him? Don't know.
Update Rate: Every few days.
Molly.com - Welcome shares her Web development work and personal thoughts on her site. This lady seems fun, and I only saw about 10 minutes of her XHTML session yesterday. Apparently, one of the most 10 influential women on the web and knows lots of famous people. I signed up for MollyNews in hopes of learning more from her.
Would I have a beer with her? Yes.
Update Rate: Once a week.
Backup Brain is a joint project of Tom Negrino and Dori Smith. I don't remember seeing either of these folks speak, but I think Dori gave a talk on JSP's - which I skipped. I like the idea of two people posting to one blog, kinda neat to get two perspectives.
Would I have a beer with them? Don't know.
Update Rate: A few times a day.
Scobleizer Radio Weblog is the weblog of Robert Scoble. Robert organized and recruited speakers for the conference. I think I saw him a few times, but never had a conversation with him. Seemed like a real nice guy that is very glad this conference is over. Bravo Robert - good conference!
Would I have a beer with him? Yes.
Update Rate: Once a week.
The FuzzyBlog! is the blog of J. Scott Johnson who gave held a session on outsourcing your web development work. I never met the guy, even though I followed his blog before the conference.
Would I have a beer with him? Don't know.
Update Rate: Every few hours.
The Daily Report from Jeffrey Zeldman talks mainly about web standards and the life of a web developer/designer. I've enjoyed reading Zeldman's site ever since I first saw him at Web Design World 2000 in Denver. Why should you listen to this guy? Because he is a leader of the web standards movement (www.webstandards.org) that persuaded Microsoft and Netscape to support the same technologies in their browsers, thus radically simplifying web development while making sites more accessible to all. And we love writing only one version of our sites.
Would I have a beer with him? Sure.
Update Rate: Every day or two.
Doozy appears to be a blog from one of the conference participants.
In the process of composing this list, I thought it might be nice if the above blogs contained a picture of the person. Since they didn't, I might never know who some of the folks are. To be fair, here is picture of me from a couple years ago with my lovely bride.
The two sessions I enjoyed today where Zeldman's 508 Compliance talk and Mike Ninness's Photoshop tips and tricks.
What I learned.
From Zeldman, I learned that I might be able to use SMIL or other "caption authoring" tools to add changing text alongside a QuickTime movie. My client has been asking for this, and it sounds like we can use SMIL to add it to either QuickTime or RealPlayer movies. I also learned to use <img alt="" /> for spacer images and others with no meaning, vs. using <img alt=" " />. Zeldman has some great presentations that he gave us the URL to, I'll ask him if I can share with my readers.
From Mike, I learned about Adobe Evangelists and I was inspired and amazed by what he showed us is possible in Photoshop. Here is a Photoshop 7 tutorial for those interested.
From myself, I learned that Dreamweaver is a good weblog client, but it seems to keep putting line breaks in my paragraphs rather than wrapping the lines, which is annoying, and means I have to either (1) change a setting, or (2) remove them all manually. I just turned off under Preferences > Code Format and that seemed to help.
has moved from SourceForge to JIRA . I used JIRA a couple of times today and it's a way cool interface and very easy to use. Nice job Atlassian and Mike! I've used Bugzilla a lot in the past, and briefly looked at Scarab, both of which are free. I like Bugzilla a lot, but it can be a little intimidating to setup and use for the first time. As soon as you get that first 1/2 hour over with, you're good to go. It's always nice to learn new products, but with JIRA's price tag of $800, I doubt I'll ever get to use this beyond Roller. However, if it's good - I'll recommend it to my clients and maybe I can get some kickbacks ;-)
In case you need more motivation to convert your site to XHTML and CSS, Zeldman rants that "99.9% of Websites are Obsolete."
Peel the skin of any major site, from Amazon to Microsoft.com, from Sony to ZDNet. Examine their tortuous non-standard markup, their proprietary ActiveX and JavaScript (often including broken detection scripts), and ill-conceived use of Cascading Style Sheets - when they use CSS at all. It's a wonder such sites work in any browser.
I got this idea from The FuzzyBlog. I did a search on Google for Colorado Photos, and found www.coloradophotos.com. Very cool - I might have to showcase a new photo each day - it does wonders for making this site look better.
I got a tip today from Olivier, a developer of Solex, to disable my ad blocking tools (I use Norton Internet Security) and I would be able to download XMLBuddy. Sure 'nough, it worked!
Olivier had contacted me after reading my blog (wow, people ARE reading this) to let me know about Solex, which is:
A Web application testing tool built as a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE. Based on a built-in Web proxy and a concept of extraction, replacement, and assertion rules (including regular expressions), Solex provides functions to record a client session, adjust it according to various parameters and replay it. This is typically done in order to ensure the non-regression of a Web application's behavior.
At first glance, it looks like a recorder of your browser interactions, so you don't have to repeat "click, click, click" over and over again to test some functionality. HttpUnit probably can accomplish the same thing, but you have to physically write code to test everything. Solex looks like it'll just record the test case. Looks cool to me, if I can find an hour to install and tinker with, I might even use it.
A sweet tip from Russell:
I AM using Mozilla's awesome "Tab-Group Bookmarks" feature which basically opens up a folder of favorites all in one window with a tab per link. I've got everyone in the JavaBlogs section of my blogroll in one and I can just open it up and flip through the tabs one by one. The sites I want to respond to or read more in depth stay open, but the others get closed (quick middle-button click). It's working out really well to keep up with the blog list on the left.
To use it, it's very easy:
Doesn't get much easier than that, and he's right - it's WAY cool!
