10/30/2003
CSS TAB
Post @ 00:44 in CSS
Cool CSS TAB design comes again. I saw a really cool CSS TAB design over here
Archives - October 2003
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Blog Buttons
Post @ 00:43 in Blogging - Web Design/Usability
all buttons are collected on STEAL THESE BOTTONS. It's a nice resources for blog or web designer.
10/29/2003
Comment RSS Feed
Post @ 08:16 in Blogging - Web Design/Usability
How to make a comment rss feed (via Phil ringnalda dot com
10/28/2003
Longhorn Developer Center
Post @ 10:16 in Technology
MS next generation operating system Longhorn Developer Center. They also offered RSS Feed
blog to Movable Type by using FeeddDemon.
Post @ 12:47 in Blogging - MovavleType
FeedDemon 1.0 RC2 was release today in Nick's blog.
Nick show us a way to posting to MT from FeedDemon. and after that Glenn Slaven has find out a tip posting to Typepad from FeedDemon! Great tips.
10/23/2003
Foundation of CMS
Post @ 11:10 in Content Management
Foundation of Content Management Systems, a article from Dynamic Zones.
Dynamic Zones is a CMS and KM system software.
Interview with Blogger's Evan Williams
Post @ 10:31 in Blogging - Interview/Review
Blog on. The lastest interview with Evan Williams who is the co-founder and CEO of pyra, the company behind Blogger
10/22/2003
Why should you learn CSS?
Post @ 22:49 in CSS
Top 10 Resons to learn CSS, a interview of Christopher Schmitt.
Christopher Schmitt made a lot of amazing works like his book, Designing CSS web pages, ,CSSbook.com and Sessions.edu online accredited design classes
10/20/2003
RSS 2.0 Specification
Post @ 21:58 in Blogging - XML
RSS 2.0 Standard from Technology at Harvard Law.
also here is a interesting site RSSJobs, en? Is this the next generation Monster?
Cool Mozilla extension "web developer"
Post @ 21:17 in Software/Tools
A very nice extension for mozilla from CHRISPEDERICK.COM
10/15/2003
Another way of looking at accessibility
Post @ 15:38 in Web Standards
Lorraine Ireland's article: another way of looking at accessibility.
China Grid Project
Post @ 14:35 in China's Affairs - Science - Technology
Excited news from infoworld: China Grid project announce go live, it's mean a dozen unversitites work on grid project that will connect up to 200,000 students in 100 schools across the country.
Reference: IBM Grid Computing
China's new frontier
Post @ 14:34 in China's Affairs
Glenn Reynolds wrote a new opinion on TechCentralStation column, talked about China's Space program. China's New Frontier
Comment Spam
Post @ 00:03 in Blogging - MovavleType
Comment Spam becomes to a serious problem. A lot of popular blog sites are suffered with them. Brainstorms and Raves also suffered from the spam comments. Fortunately, Bloggers realized this disgusting problem more and more. Some of them are working on it try to find out a solution. Six Apart has a post today talking about this infection. Jay Allen also released a MT-Blacklist plugin for MT user
10/12/2003
I never know about this
Post @ 22:28 in Blogging
So far, I know a blog name is chinaweblog, and I also metioned a movable type resource weblog "movableblog". But what was suprised me is that both two blogs are created by Richard Eriksson. He is oversea student in china come from Canada! So amazing, maybe i got this info too later. :(
overlib
Post @ 22:10 in Web Design/Usability
overlib is a small javascript created to enhance websites with small popup information boxes. See eliot's blog, It's a really sweet plug-in to personal webpage. I am going to use this samll genius on my webpage.
Faced MT Categoty design
Post @ 20:56 in MovavleType
pixelcharmer shows me a great design which is using MT. Man! Especially in categories classification. he made this catrgories called faceted metadata category. I love this design so much.
Why we shuould go with faceted classification scheme, Via Tanya Rabourn
"Due to the limitations of category construction in MT. Each post can have any number of categories applied and one is selected to be the "primary" category. There's no way to make hierarchical relationships among them, though. "
The Potential of weblog in Education
Post @ 18:22 in Blogging - E-Learning
James Farmer has a article in education with weblog.
The Potential of Personal Publishing in Education
I: What?s doing & who?s doing it?
II: How?s it going & what?s working?
Stephen Downes write some comment about James's article
CSS, IE, and Continued Frustrations
Post @ 01:46 in CSS - Technology
A new article was published yesterday at news.com,Developers gripe about IE standards inaction. This latest article by Paul Festa
includes interviews with Microsoft’s lead product manager Greg Sullivan, Web Standards Project’s co-founder
CSS Resources
Post @ 01:34 in CSS - Resource
Standards: The W3C
CSS home page
CSS Level 1
CSS Level 2
CSS Level 3
CSS validator to check code against the standard
How-tos and demos
Eric Meyer's CSS resource guide
Meyerweb.com
CSS tutorial
W3Schools
CSS demonstration site
CSS Zen Garden
The vendors
Opera 7 CSS support
Opera.com
Microsoft's CSS page
Microsoft Developer Network Mozilla guide to writing CSS
Mozilla.org Macromedia's CSS topic center
Macromedia.com
10/10/2003
about changes to IE
Post @ 16:08 in Technology
Microsoft announced a change to internet Explorer which means most site will start seeing a popup error reports around January 2004. We're going to be seeing millions of web pages changing in the next few months.
Why MS announed this change?? In early augest 2003, Microsoft loses $521 million verdict over browser.
"A federal jury in Chicago awarded the University of California and a browser technology company $521 million after finding that their patents were infringed by Microsoft Corp."
OK, here is a big problem come with this Eolas patent ruling.(via zeldman. Technically, rich media is now no longer allow to play antomatically in browser window which means that flash clips cannot start without uset intervention.
"Besides paying over half a billion dollars to the patent holder, Microsoft is supposed to cripple its market-leading browser so that IE/Windows will no longer seamlessly play Flash, Quicktime, RealVideo, or Adobe Acrobat files, Java applets, and other rich media formats. Once the company does this, any site that uses these technologies will no longer work in the browser most people use."
Seriously, the workround Microsoft could be proposing is to insert a dialog box that pops up and asks the user, "Would you like me to satrt this Flash movie?" They are in that much of bind here. Are you kidding!
After a month, the Eloas Patent decision has spawned the this dreaded update.
"Developers who build ActiveX controls, Web developers who use ActiveX and Java Applets on their Web sites, and developers who host the Web Browser OC or MSHTML should consult this documentation to understand how the user experience is changing, and also how to modify their pages to manage the user experience for their content."
I saw a article via anil's blog, seems like an opportunity comes to tidy for activX
"there's an opportunity here, if you're committed to web standards and want to make a real impact. Start working with HTML Tidy and make a version with a simplified UI, which creates valid markup and fixes OBJECT tags in one fell swoop."
For web developer should advocate user-centered design and usability, that's called User experience. Jakob Nielsen and Donald A. Norman both are pionners in the filed. see Nielsen Norman Group
10/ 9/2003
Dive into Python
Post @ 14:25 in Books - Resource
Dive into python, this site also provide a chinese version . hedong was learning Python these days! actully python attracted me alot. hmm...
Best Practices for Software Development
Post @ 10:27 in Inspiration - Software/Tools
Best Practices for Software Development Projects, (via Lifelong Learning)
1. Recruit skilled and experienced people.
2. Use "leading-edge," not "bleeding-edge," technology.
3. Use the appropriate development process.
4. Provide the right tools.
5. Use source-control management.
6. Apply sound estimating techniques.
7. Break effort into mini-milestone tasks.
8. Track all project hours.
9. Understand the only constant is change.
10.Provide project leadership.
Web standards
Post @ 02:22 in Web Standards
Web standard detail instruction, Nigel Peck had release a CSS positioning properties guide.
Microsoft announced a changes to the Default Handling of ActiveX Controls by Internet Explorer . What's absolutly fucking nuts! Tome will tell you why it suck!
Are weblogs over-hyped?
Post @ 00:37 in Blogging
Oliver Willis thinks so: "...a technology that is mostly the pursuit of upper middle class white males does diddly to change the real world. I'm a geek through-and-thorough but when I hear tooth gnashing about issues like copyright as if they were the most important issue in the world - it tells me that the blog world is somewhat out of touch." Can weblogs heal themselves by including more people, or will blogging continue to be the pursuit of a privileged few?
From blogroots
The Business Value of Web Standards
Post @ 00:31 in Business - Web Design/Usability
In business view and concern, how to design a website base on valued web standards. from adaptivepath.com
also a three-stage rollover all with CSS from SimpleBits
Experiences with Google's Adsense system
Post @ 00:03 in Search Engines
Matt Haughey worte up a great post on experiences with google's Adsense system. Totally make sense in my mind.
10/ 8/2003
algorithm
Post @ 22:52 in Vocabulary/Glossary
algorithm
A step-by-step procedure for solving a problem in a finite number of steps that often involves repetition of an operation.
optimize Acrobat Reader 6
Post @ 22:30 in Software/Tools
Darrell Norton show us a way to make acrobat reader 6 load faster. I have to remove 3 plug-in progams.
Here's How to:
1. Go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader (replace the C if you installed on another drive, like I did).
2. Create a new folder called plug_ins_disabled.
3. Move all files from the plug_ins folder to the plug_ins_disabled folder except EWH32.api, printme.api, and search.api. There should only be these 3 files in the plug_ins folder.
Weblogs Class Planing
Post @ 14:17 in Blogging
Nick post a weblog class planing in a comments. Excellent weblogs information aggregation. I am going to make them to a individual webpage.
Read More "Weblogs Class Planing"10/ 7/2003
Free ASP.NET lunch!
Post @ 23:26 in Technology
No such thing as a free lunch? not really. a good free ASP library. Cool!
Meet the Makers
Post @ 15:53 in Blogging
OK, the site name gives me a intuitionistic impression. meet-the-makers, that's mean meet creative people in a technical world. The first one i saw on their conversation is Jeffrey Zeldman, a great web designer. and his Jeffrey Zeldman's Daily Report is the most popular destination for web designer.
Chinese MIT?
Post @ 15:03 in China's Affairs
A old article from Forbes: The Chinese MIT. As the best technology institute, Tsinghua University isn't shy about encouraging or financing entrepreneurs to commercialize technology.
BloggerCon Essay
Post @ 14:47 in Blogging
1. Notes from the Host by Dave Winter
2. If the Gray Lady Could Blog... by Dave Winter
3. The rule of Win-Win
More Essay on here
Bush's blog
Post @ 14:36 in Blogging
The bush/cheney campaign has created it's official blog, but you can't not deliver you opinion over there just beacuse these no comment function. From Democrats.org
Also a shaking news will pop up tonight. Californians are voting to decide who will govern the richest and most populous US state for the next three years. Does Arnold will win in this vote? BBC News. here is a other voice from Scriptingnews
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003
Post @ 13:53 in Science
NY Times news: American and Briton Win Nobel for Using Chemists' Test for M.R.I.'s
Press Release
10/ 6/2003
Korean most famous CG designer L.soa
Post @ 18:39 in Interview/Review
L.soa's website. She is the most popular and famous CD designer in Korean.
Amazing CSS style navigation bar
Post @ 17:46 in CSS
List-o-matic: A tool for generating list-based navigation styled with CSS. From Accessify
Joy after SUN
Post @ 15:36 in Interview/Review
Fortune has a interview with Blii joy after he left SUN microsystem.
I think keke will be interesting in this news and see what joy saying.
Also come with Bill joy's old article: Why the future doesn't need us. And Ray Kurzweil has an insightful article the double-edged sword of technology.
Worker blog and company's cincern
Post @ 14:49 in Blogging - Digital Culture
USA Today: Worker blogs raise some company concerns
As a blogger, we should clear the base line on our writting in blog. as a company, Some concern is necessary for protect confidential information.
Blogger API learning base on XML-RPC
Post @ 13:55 in Blogging - XML
My friend hedong do a particular learning report in bloggerAPI, here is a link to his research
Reference
XML-RPC
MetaWeblog API
10/ 5/2003
Building Intranet Tutorial
Post @ 23:56 in Content Management
A Tutorial regarding building internet. See Detail
Photos More Searchable
Post @ 23:28 in Web Design/Usability
Frank Leathy has a great concept about photos: How To Make Photos More Searchable. Also Don't forget to dive into the comments in this article.
About Frank Leahy: He is a former CMS developer for Lycos and engineer at Wired, has moved to Cornwall, England.
From Digital Web Magazine
CSS text control tutorial
Post @ 23:20 in CSS
The Bare Bones, No Crap, CSS Text Control Primer by wendy peck
From Digital Web Magazine
More CSS Tips and Help from Brainstorm & Raves
NYTimes focus on China's Huawei
Post @ 23:16 in China's Affairs
NYTimes has a article focus on Huawei, which is a one of most effective high tech company in china.
See Detail in Rapid Growth of China's Huawei Has Its High-Tech Rivals on Guard
Bloggercon conference information
Post @ 15:52 in Blogging - Conference/Events
BloggerCon is a conference about weblogs on October 4 and 5 on the campus of Harvard Law School.
Here are some photos about Bloggercon 2003 conference from Dan Bricklin
Conference note by Heath, admire his typing speed.
Joi's joined conference and here is rough transcript of his talk
Audioblogging At BloggerCon provide by Harold Gilchrist
Also we can enjoy feeds anytime in this conference at bloggercon.localfeeds.com
10/ 3/2003
Key Elements on Online Course Development
Post @ 15:28 in E-Learning
MIT OCW was rampanted on internet. OCW online course include plenty of recources like: Syllabus, leature, project, exams, etc. In face, they gaves us a good chance to take a different teaching thoughts and learning methods. web-education is the best way fo life learning. A article from XPLANA: Successful Online Course Development: Key Factors
Creat a online Broadcasts
Post @ 13:31 in Technology
How to Create Compact Online Broadcasts for the Web
An example of Web Cast:Debugging and Tracing XSLT Transformations in Microsoft XML Core Services and .NET
10/ 2/2003
Email can't as a substitute for face-to-face conversation
Post @ 12:19 in Digital Culture
Why Email can't as a subsititute for face-to-face conversation in management. Some 92% of executives surveyed by Accounttemps las year said manager often sent an e-mail message rather than meeting one-on-one,and 67% said they used it as a substitute for face-to-face conversation. This such "virtual" management is rampant on this time!
See Sending the Wrong Message From Fortune
10/ 1/2003
GNOME Project
Post @ 19:15 in Web Design/Usability
GNOME Project is a Free software and part of the GNU project. GNOME Project is an effort to create a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment for users, as well as a powerful application development framework for software developers.
There also is a excited graphic design site called Jimmac. They made Incredible icon and banner for linux desktop user. amazing job!!!
CSS Design Tutorial
Post @ 01:57 in CSS
Web Page Reconstruction with CSS from Digital Web. CSS Design behaved a well-structured concept from our mind, so if we are building a webpage base on HTML, CSS will be the best choice for the layout design.