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Celebrate Web Professionals’ Day

Please join me in celebrating Web Professionals’ Day! The second annual Web Professionals’ Day is today April 29. Congratulations to all those who keep the websites up to date and functional (as well as secure, usable, accessible, and conforming to established standards and best practices).

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Illinois SkillsUSA Web Design Contest

Congratulation to Kathleen Quinlan and Matt Scachette on winning first place in the Illinois SkillsUSA web design contest. The contest was held on Friday, April 24, 2009 in Springfield. It consisted of a series of 6 separate challenges. Many focused on the area of web standards. Some dealt with specific […]

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2009 Technical Skills

The Society of Digital Agencies recently conducted a survey to determine what technical skills would be in demand this year. Details can be found in graphical form on page 20 of the report.  Although I question (and others have as well) why Java and JavaScript are lumped together, one can […]

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Twitter

I will be the first to admit that I don’t fully understand Twitter. However, I recently finished a short course on emerging technologies for education. This inspired me to obtain a Twitter account. I plan to take a different approach. Rather than posting what I consider trivial nonsense about what […]

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MAPS Fossil Show

I attended the Mid America Paleontological Society annual show in Macomb (Illinois) this weekend. These are a few of the photos I took at that event. www.flickr.com

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Impressive new technologies

Thought readers might want to examine these links. Most impressive technologies. Adobe CSOLPC Google CADIE IE 8.1 preview (thanks to Jonathan Worent for this one). Someone also told me that Taco Bell is planning to buy the Liberty Bell to help offset the national debt.

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