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If I Were a Lego
A while ago I posted a link to a Comedy Central South Park character creator that I used to design what I would look like if I were on South Park. Today I discovered another great time waster that lets you build yourself as a plastic model, simila to the Lego people that we all […]
Presentation Proposal Accepted
I learned yesterday taht my proposal for this year’s HighEdWebDev conference was accepted. I’ll be presenting Bringing True Interactivity to Web Applications with XML Requests on Monday, Nvember 6 at 2:45.
TinyMCE is a great little editor
I just discovered a cool new WYSIWYG editor for web browsers called TinyMCE. It is entirely driven with JavaScript—no special plugins or applets required—and it replaces <textarea> tags on teh page at runtime, so it integrates seemlessly into existing apps while non-compliant browsers continue to show the textarea. With about 5 minutes of work I […]
Least Likely to Succeed, Too
In recent posts to The Daily Report such as Tag Clouds are the New Mullets and Remove Forebrain and Serve, Zeldman has blasted tag clouds because of their tendancy to make popular topics even more popular while making less popular topics disappear into obscurity. Tag clouds are lists of links to related topics that have […]
RIT Scheduled To Play AIC After Thanksgiving
I never thought that I’d go home to go to an RIT hockey game, but it looks like I’ll have the chance on November 26. RIT bigins thir first year playing Division I games next season and their schedule has them pitted against American International College in Springfield on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Since I’lls […]