I’m looking into new JS frameworks for frontend enhancements, and came across MooTools on recommendation from a friend. The framework has lots of cool features and seems pretty simple, but one thing I’m most impressed with is the download page. It acts just like the *nix package managers – allowing to you pick and choose …
Tag Archives: Web 2.0
Award Winning : Davey Awards
I just received word that one of my projects just won a Davey Award for online marketing and email campaigns: Munchkin’s Project Pink: Email a Duck, Raise a Buck! Harley Bergsma at the UXB and I devised this brainchild together. From there he took care of project management and I took care of developing the …
Google, search engines fat on SPAM?
I recently read an article in The Register about Google’s recent issues with the massive amounts of spam online. Let’s just be honest moment here: SEO is great but it’s exploited WAY too much on what I would consider illegitimate websites. You know – the ones whose sole purpose is for the display of advertisements, …
Newsvine – out of beta
Well folks, Newsvine is finally out of private beta! It’s a great spin on aggregating news over the net. First, it claims to put wire news up faster than any other site because it skips all the editorial processes that most news websites (think CNN) go through before anything makes a page. Thousands of articles …
The Meat at ApacheCon
Today really was my day at ApacheCon. Four of the five talks were on things I’m truly interested in – mostly PHP (see previous post). Rasmus gave an interesting talk about using PHP at Yahoo!. He gave some particulars about making high-performance, scalable systems. The other portion of his talk focused around XML support in …