News Roundup - June 2009
What follows is notable news and happenings that I want to purge from my bookmarks folder. It will be a combination of things you already know spiced with things you probably won’t care about. I apologize in advance. The
Google Maps and Microsoft....Bing?
A couple of major announcements from the big web mapping API folks came out recently. First, Google has launched a Maps Data API, which is what it sounds like - you can store map data in the cloud and retrieve it. Now y
News Roundup - May 2009
What follows is notable news and happenings that I want to purge from my bookmarks folder. It will be a combination of things you already know spiced with things you probably won’t care about. I apologize in advance. Pau
Make Smarter - CSS, Firebug, Agile, and Database Manga
This month’s Make Smarter homes in on some CSS and Firebug goodies for the web deveopers out there, as well as a couple of resources on Agile project management. In the CSS department, I recently stumbled across the CSS
April News Roundup
What follows is notable news and happenings that I want to purge from my bookmarks folder. It will be a combination of things you already know spiced with things you probably won’t care about. I apologize in advance. Ubu
Google Releases Experimental 3D Browser Plugin
As you can read about here, here, and here, Google has just released an experimental open source 3D browser plugin. The plugin uses O3D, which is “a new, shader-based, low-level graphics API for creating interactive 3D
ArcGIS Silverlight API Beta and Some RIA Thoughts
ESRI has released a beta (1.0) version of its ArcGIS Silverlight API. It’s available for download now and supports both Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express. Silverlight is Microsoft’s Flash competitor. As much
Internet Explorer 8 is Out
If you hear a faint chorus of cheers through the air ducts, that would web designers around the world heralding the arrival of Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft released version 8 of it’s browser product at 12:00PM EST toda
jQuery 1.3.2 and jQuery UI 1.7 Released
In the woot! department, the jQuery and jQuery UI Javascript libraries have seen major updates. jQuery’s 1.3 branch upgrade happened back in January, with two bug fix releases since then to get to 1.3.2. This is a major
Google Earth Flight/Sub/Spacecraft Simulator
Google Earth has had a flight simulator built in for quite a while (hit CTRL-A), but as the Google Earth Blog points out, with the new data available in Google Earth 5, you can also fly under water or on Mars. Just get t