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Our nation’s first CIO

March 9, 2009 - General , Technology - by Mark - No Comments

Recently, President Obama announced the nation’s first Chief Information Officer. Details can be found a number of places online. If you are a student in any of my current classes… send me an email message indicating the name of this individual and a short synopsis of his initial priorities. If […]

Weblog SPAM

January 3, 2009 - Technology - by Mark - No Comments

I have been tracking the number of SPAM comments various bots and individuals have attempted to include in my weblog. The volume is simply getting out of hand. Since I started the weblog in Dec. 2006, there have been 754 SPAM comments. 526 of those were in November and December, […]

Web Pro Community Challenge

November 19, 2008 - ICC , Technology , WOW - by Mark - No Comments

The second annual Web Pro Community Challenge was announced at Adobe MAX (San Francisco) yesterday. The Web Pro Challenge is a Web design competition designed to provide the Web community with an opportunity to showcase their skills and talents, win prizes and benefit the community by designing and developing a […]

Interview with Jeffrey Zeldman

November 14, 2008 - Technology , WOW - by Mark - No Comments

This is a podcast which was also posted on the WOW Technology Minute website today.

ICC Lecture Arts Series

October 30, 2008 - ICC , Technology - by Mark - No Comments

Shari and I made a presentation on the future of technology as part of the ICC Lecture Arts series. A number of excellent questions were asked by the audience. If you would like to listen to the recorded version of this presentation, please contact me and I will provide the […]

Mozilla Labs – Ubiquity

September 3, 2008 - Technology - by Mark - No Comments

Mozilla Labs introduced an interesting approach to connecting the web to language. It seems similar to the concept of mashups, but allows for this to happen without having to write any code (mashups for the masses, so to speak). This is a very early prototype and does seem to have […]

Google releases a browser

September 2, 2008 - Technology - by Mark - No Comments

For those who haven’t yet heard the news – Google has released a browser – Google Chrome. Details can be found at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html I would be interested in your thoughts regarding this browser (it seems to be based on WebKit with bits of Firefox). WebKit is baed on open source software and was the […]

Photosynth released

August 22, 2008 - Technology - by Mark - No Comments

Photosynth – http://photosynth.net/ is an interesting concept. If you have ever used PhotoShop to stitch multiple images together, you may appreciate this tool. Although most of the processing is done on the client side, you need to upload the photos to a MS server. I believe you do get 20 […]

Congratulations

June 29, 2008 - Student Examples , Technology , WOW - by Mark - No Comments

Congratulations to Luan Railsback and Sheri Humphrey. They won First Place at the SkillsUSA national web design contest in Kansas City this week. Well done! There should be some additional information about the contest posted on the WOW weblog (WOW Technology Minute) in the next week or two. Contestants at […]

Happy Webmaster Day

April 29, 2008 - Technology , WOW - by Mark - No Comments

I believe GoDaddy initiated this idea – today is the day to say thanks to all those who tirelessly keep websites up and running. More information can be found at: http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/holiday/webmastersday/send_ecard.asp?ci=12356 and http://wowtechminute.com/. As a teacher of these technologies, let me add my note of thanks to those who keep things […]

Good introduction to Firefox 4

April 2, 2008 - Technology - by Mark - No Comments

I came across this article today. Thought it was a good read as to the future direction of Firefox. Details can be found at http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9904867-2.html. Concepts of Prism and Weave are both quite interesting…

Thanks Mike

March 19, 2008 - Technology - by Mark - No Comments

I wanted to take a moment and formally thank Mike Perdun. He stopped by class last night and pointed out the obvious. I had been plagued with a problem using Adobe Captivate 3 and Vista. In researching a number of other weblogs, I found several individuals had encountered this problem, […]

Top 10 Application Design Mistakes

February 20, 2008 - Technology - by Mark - No Comments

Jakob Nielsen has recently posted a listing of the top 10 application design mistakes. They can be found at: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/application-mistakes.html. For students in my classes, review the link and let me know your thoughts (via the appropriate discussion forum).

HTML 5 working draft published

January 24, 2008 - Technology - by Mark - No Comments

A working draft of the HTML 5 specification has been published – http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/ (January 22, 2008). There is an associated press release – http://www.w3.org/2008/02/html5-pressrelease. InfoWorld also has a review/ overview of this milestone – http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/22/W3C-offers-HTML-5-draft_1.html. Students are encouraged to review these documents; we can discuss further in class.

Acid test

January 22, 2008 - Technology - by Mark - No Comments

In several classes, I briefly mentioned that Internet Explorer 8 has passed the Acid test (actually the Acid 2 test). I forgot to mention the actual URL (for those who want to try this out in their browser). Please visit http://www.hixie.ch/tests/evil/acid/002/. Note that therer is an Acid 3 test, but […]