Marshall Kirkpatrick http://marshallk.com/ Recommendations: Blog search: Ask.com – uses bloglines to filter out spam. Sets up bookmarklet to blog search. News Search: topix.net, yahoo news, as well as dilicio.us popular items Web Results: live.com (search sucks, but does publish newly found pages) Twitter: Summize.com Big proponent to over subscribing to feeds. Argues that is better […]

Dave McFarland Introduction: Many websites (including macworld) Many Books (missing mauals) Teaches at PSU What is Javascript? Starts with what is Javascript? Interactivity! Shows great examples: Apple, twistori … JS is About: selecting page elements manipulating page elements Uses stripped table as an example. Shows some code, but quickly jumps to JQuery (the JS library) […]

We have started adding regular video clips to our weekly web features. Entitled “In Their Own Words”, the clips are short and raw – much like something that you would find on YouTube. Sometimes, I do a little post production clean up, but all the video is shot and edited by the college writer, James […]

Mike Culver from Amazon web services came to speak to the PDXRIA group. In his own words: “I’m a Web services evangelist with Amazon Web Services. My day job–and my night and weekend passion–is working with developers to talk about life in a post Web 2.0 world”

Today, apple released the beta SDK for building your own iphone apps. During the announcement, there were some good points and some bad points. The good: iPhone Getting Multitouch Games Including Spore Apple to Allow VoIP Over WiFi AIM Client for iPhone SDK access to camera and other items could make for some fun apps […]

The dudes at dojo developed a great tool called shrinksafe that can safely optimize your JavaScript. It removes the whitespace and shortens local variable names, but leaves the function names alone. They offer a downloadable installation – but when you live on the web, who has time to install apps? Until recently, they also hosted […]

Today marks the end of an era. Netscape Communicator was the first graphical web browser that I ever used. Mosaic may have come first, but for me and countless others, Netscape was our introduction to the “true” web. I still remember the day that I loaded the 3.5″ floppy(s?) into the old Macintosh Quadra. Goodbye […]

Spam just seems to keep getting stranger… I don’t approve of the practice, but from a monetary point of view, I understand how effective spamming can be for certian products. Take meds for instance. There must be a ton of people who are too embarrassed, or can’t afford/get a prescription/ect. for Viagra. Generally it seems […]

Here is a cool CSS3 trick. By the creator of Spell with Flickr and Befuddlr (addictive!), this little program sets up the code to hide an image in plain sight. Point to the url of your favorite image and add some text. The program uses Safari and Firefox’s support of CSS3’s ::selection pseudo-element to render […]

Mozilla (the basis for the netscape, aol and firefox browsers) celebrates its 10th birthday today. Ten years ago, Netscape announced it would release to the public the code of its flag ship product, Netscape Communicator 5, making it an open source product…. Over time, Mozilla would become the name of the open source project, AOL […]