Will Desktops be Irrelevant in 3 years?

At a recent conference, European Director of Google’s online sales John Herlihy stated that in 3 years time, desktops will become irrelevant. The statement is not as farfetched as it sounds, in Japan that is already the case, where the only uses for desktops are in actual work environments, the vast majority of all other [...]

Android Phones predicted to outsell iPhones by year’s end

In the planning stages for your next killer-iPhone app?
You might want to rethink the platform.
There are currently 60,000 Android phones being pushed out every day, says Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt. That comes out to over 21 million phones a year, a number that may help Android overtake the iPhone by the end of the year. [...]

TED Talk on the upcoming Bing Maps

This TED Talk demonstrates the new Bing Map features that are far more advanced than any competitor. The most notable feature is the ability to stream live video that overlays the default Bing Map’s street views. This is amazing considering you could be browsing around cities and stores while at the same time seeing a [...]

Public Google Apps Calendar showing “busy”

If you are trying to publicly display a calendar created through a Google Apps account, but all events are displaying as “busy”, follow these steps to allow the public to see all event details.
1) Login as an Administrator to your Google Apps account. (http://www.google.com/a/yourdomain.com)
2) At the dashboard, click “Calendar”.

3) Under “Sharing options”, change the “Outside [...]

Twitter’s Most Common Passwords

While locking down their security, Twitter posted a list of the 370 most used passwords by their users. I highly recommend looking at the list and changing your default password (for any email client, application, computer, etc) if it’s on there.
1. 111111
2. 11111111
3. 112233
4. 121212
5. 123123
6. 123456
7. 1234567
8. 12345678
9. 131313
10. 232323
11. 654321
12. 666666
13. 696969
14. 777777
15. [...]

CKEditor ReplaceAll Config

To place configuration values into the ReplaceAll command for CKEditor, use the following format:

CKEDITOR.replaceAll(function( textarea, config ){
config.toolbar_Full =
[
['Source','-','Save','NewPage','Preview','-','Templates'],
['Cut','Copy','Paste','PasteText','PasteFromWord','-','Print', 'SpellChecker', 'Scayt'],
['Undo','Redo','-','Find','Replace','-','SelectAll','RemoveFormat'],
[...]

Notepad++ 5.6 Released

The newest version of Notepad++ has been released. Changes include:

Notepad++ v5.6 new features and fixed bugs (from v5.5.1) :

1. Add languages encoding – Chinese traditional (BIG5), Chinese Simplified (GB2312), Japanese (Shift JIS), Korean (EUC), Thai (TIS-620), Hebrew (iso-8859-8), Hebrew (1255), Central European (1250), Cyrillic (1251), Cyrillic (KOI8-U), Cyrillic (KOI8-R), Cyrillic (Mac), Western [...]

Michigan State University Ranks Top 3 in Web Accessibilty

This is a huge honor as I was part of the committee responsible for drafting and implementing the latest Web Accessibility Standards for MSU, and was the lead developer for the Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities website.
Read the article here

JIAD Case Study – Scalability & Speed

“The Journal of Interactive Advertising (JIAD) is a refereed online publication designed to promote our understanding of interactive advertising, marketing, and communication in a networked world.”

The original site was extremely difficult to maintain. Changing one word on the navigation meant changing that same word on well over 100 files. The only way to edit articles [...]

Top 10 User Experience Myths

While redesigning the user interface for a web application I’m developing, I ran into a great article that talked about the Top 10 UX Myths. It points out a lot of common mistakes developers should avoid making.