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Review of 2012: is it worth the hype?

AJAX, Web 2.0, SOA, SEO, VOIP, Scalability, Viral Marketing, Agile Development and User Experience are just some of the contemporary buzzwords filling out new and traditional media. But what good are they anyway? I say a whole lot of goodness.

Book review of Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design by Robert Hoekman Jr.

I recently had to set-up a mailing list manager for our company’s email campaign and since cost is a constraint I put on to myself, I happily searched and evaluated Open Source solutions. My search brought me to the PHPList website.

Midomi presents a new way to search stuff-- by singing it! It uses Adobe Flash to record using your microphone. Pretty interesting. Try searching-- you will hear the best rendered songs this side of American Idol.

Being the cheapskate that I am, I was looking for a FREE (yes, free) webhost service for a new blog I’ll be launching soon. I can now imagine the gasps of the security-conscious folks out there.

When does a Non-Compete Agreement go to far?

Verisign and Adobe recently announced of a partnership that will combine Verisign’s P2P distribution technology and Flash. How will this pan out?

Adobe’s CS3 generation will be launching in 2007 with a new look and branding. Here’s a preview of their Icons and color schemes

CSS recently celebrated its 10th birthday (whoa, it’s been that long huh?) and released a list of sites that has made an impact for CSS. From their site, “sites that promoted CSS, teached CSS, marked important dates, or simply used CSS in unexpected ways” received mention at the CSS10 Hall of Fame. Here’s the list with a brief review of each.

There were probably several before it, but Adobe’s CSS Advisor is one of the best resources to perfect your CSS skills available online. And in true Web 2.0 fashion, it’s in Beta.

Interestingly, SEO parallels a real world process. What could it be?

Based on some stats, the Blogosphere IS getting crowded.

Review of Peter Morville's Ambient Findability

If you watched the 2002 movie 40 Days and 40 Nights, you will know that the character Josh Hartnett plays is a web designer. Yes, a web designer in a Dot Com company. That has led me to the question, “What other major movies have characters portraying web designers?”

I bet you never saw this coming: Adobe donates the ActionScript engine to Mozilla.

What’s with the heat the social bookmarking icons (aka Sociable) are getting lately? Here’s why I will not remove the Sociable plug-in and encourage fellow bloggers to use it.

The Web Designer has probably been around for over ten years now. But with all the developments this year alone, what does the Web Designer have to be and do in the coming year to able to stay relevant in the I.T. industry?

I just took and passed the Adobe Certified Professional exam for the Dreamweaver 8 Developer track. It wasn’t that grueling but it wasn’t a walk in the park either. For those who are going to take the exam soon, here are some tips that may help you:

I’ll make this clear from the start: I’m really a Dreamweaver guy. But with all the posturing Microsoft has been doing on the web design/development against Adobe lately, I can’t help but be curious about what the Expression Web Designer can offer the web designer. Does MS Expression Web Designer have the goods to sway the Dreamweaver crowd?

Search Advertising by Google’s Dr. Hal Varian is a part of the course Search Engines: Technology, Society and Business at the University of California at Berkeley that can be accessed on the web for free. It covers the basics of how companies like Google and Yahoo are making money from advertising over the web.

Is Web Design a viable career these days?

Based on these numbers, China is the blogging capital of the world

The Browser Wars in a different arena