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Book Review
I received notice today that my book review has been published by CHOICE (May, 2011 issue). Since many readers of this weblog may not have direct access to their publication, I have included a copy here as well. Partridge, Derek. The seductive computer: why IT systems always fail. Springer, 2011. […]
Read MoreIPVEO P2V camera
I have participated in a number of seminars this year where some sort of document camera was needed. After a little research, I decided to obtain the IPVEO P2V camera. It arrived today. I found the install to be a breeze and the interface is very intuitive. I particularly like […]
Read MoreWOW Web Design Contest – Illinois, 2011
I just completed supervising the 11th annual WOW web design contest for the state of Illinois. I have done this every year (with the exception of 2008 when I was giving a pre-conference seminar at the 17th International WWW Conference in Beijing). There are separate competitions for secondary and post-secondary […]
Read MoreSwitching ICANN Registrars
There has been a fair amount of controversy over the CEO of GoDaddy (Bob Parsons) recently killing an elephant in Africa. Personally, I have begun pulling my accounts from GoDaddy and placing them elsewhere. As part of this process, I realized how potentially convoluted the process is. Therefore, I decided […]
Read MoreLightroom Web Gallery
I have been learning more about the capabilities of Photoshop Lightroom 3. I recently completed a set of tutorials at lynda.com and thought I would use that knowledge to work with some photos I took yesterday. Lightroom allows one to work with the native image formats (and seems to have […]
Read MoreFlash vs. HTML5 resolved
After giving this matter a great deal of thought, I think I have finally solved the entire problem/ controversy regarding the use of Flash instead of HTML5. Given this special day, I thought it appropriate to share my thoughts with the world. In a nutshell, these are completely different tools. […]
Read MoreAEL Impact Award
I received the Adobe Education Leader Impact Award last month. The actual plaque arrived today. Thought I would share this on my weblog. I am incredibly honored to receive this award from my peers. For those who are not familiar, the Adobe Education Leaders program spans many continents. We have […]
Read MoreAdobe Wallaby
Adobe recently released “Wallaby” via their labs website. This is a technology which converts Flash (.fla) files to HTML (HTML5). Of course, only modern browsers will be able to display the results (sorry IE 6, 7, and 8). The images rendered are SVG images (a fair number for shape tweens). […]
Read MoreHuman Error Terms
Just to be a bit different, I thought I would compile a list of human error terms. Used one of these a couple of days ago and began wondering what others existed. If you have more terms, add them to the list (via a comment). Use these at your own […]
Read MoreBook review published
Just received notice that my book review was published in the Feb. 2011 issue of CHOICE. For those who don’t have ready access to a copy, here is a reprint. 97 things every programmer should know: collective wisdom from the experts, ed. by Kevlin Henney. O’Reilly, 2010. 229p index ISBN […]
Read MoreHello World PaperVision Example
I took a little time this afternoon to modify an example of some materials provided by lynda.com in a PaperVision course. PaperVision is a class of Actionscript libraries which allow you to do some fairly magical things. Given that I have a limited amount of time (and really should be […]
Read MoreWe Meddle
I participated in an interesting presentation by Karrie Karahalios (University of Illinois) this morning concerning conversations, people and the relationships between them. examples of her current work can be found at http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/. Karrie presented many novel and interesting approaches. Included in her discussion was mention of a prototype website that […]
Read MoreSnowpocalypse
In honor of our major snow event starting today, I put together a little bit of Flash Actionscript code to generate even more snowflakes. It just populates a small array with one snowflake symbol which is re-sized and rotated and placed. I will be showing students in my CMWEB 225 […]
Read MoreMobile
Given that I have spent some time setting up a couple of development environments for mobile web applications, I thought it appropriate to step back and observe the overall process. These are just my thoughts. I would be most interested in comments from readers regarding these thoughts. First and foremost […]
Read MoreBlackberry Development
Last month, I spent some time investigating development of mobile applications with a focus on the Android market. Over the holidays, I finally had a chance to investigate development of mobile apps in the Blackberry market. These notes are a summary of my findings. Please note that I will not […]
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Thought I would try a creative effect with the #2024Eclipse.
And it begins. #2024Eclipse
Scammers are at it again. Let’s see - not an Illinois’s area code, not a proper top level domain for a government agency and more.
Encountered this creature at the start of our walk at Forest Park Nature Center today. Our entomology group outing this month.
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