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Educated. There’s a myth that colleges and universities are teaching antiquated web design skills: table-and -spacer-gif-ness, FrontPage 98, etc. Actually, I don’t think it’s a myth — it’s actually happening out there. So after touring Boston University’s Center for Digital Imaging Arts yesterday, I was completely surprised. CDIA offers an interactive design program with an… Continue reading Educated

Can SBS work in more than one location?. Hi susan   Please advice us on the best possible solution for this scenario. Currently we have only one office in B__. We are running SBS 2003 on our network. We use windows authentication extensively and also exchange for email. Right now we are not using Sharepoint… Continue reading Can SBS work in more than one location?

Small*Mart VT. Must read: Michael Shuman's The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition. (A great companion to Bo Burlingham's Small Giants: Companies that Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, discussed here several times.) I pick this time to mention the book because of a local happening that occurred yesterday. My… Continue reading Small*Mart VT

Things You Shouldn't Be Doing With Rails. Kevin Clark presents “Things You Shouldn't Be Doing in Rails“. It's not a list of things Rails isn't any good for, rather it's features or concepts related to Rails that you shouldn't be using. It covers deprecated finders, the in-built pagination classes, scaffolding, engines, layouts, and namespaced controllers.… Continue reading Things You Shouldn't Be Doing With Rails

Full Text Search & Tagging with Ruby on Rails and Ferret. Johnny of Johnny's Thoughts has put together a brief article / tutorial about implementing full text search with tagging in a Ruby on Rails application. He uses Ferret, a Ruby port of Lucene, the acts_as_ferret Rails plugin, and ActsAsTaggable.    [Ruby Inside]

Early Adopter Download of the Day: Midnight Inbox (Mac OS X).  Mac OS X only: Midnight Inbox is swanky beta personal organizational software that implements the popular Getting Things Done personal productivity method. Collect, process and organize your projects, tasks and life goals David Allen-style all in one interface. This is the first public beta… Continue reading Early Adopter Download of the Day: Midnight Inbox (Mac OS X)

We will not walk in fear, one of another.. Funny what happens when you’re out of the country for a week. I totally missed Donald Rumsfeld going off the deep end and claiming that critics of the Bush administration’s conduct of the war were propping up fascism. Huh? It’s a type of criticism we’ve heard… Continue reading We will not walk in fear, one of another.

The Money Train: A Rails “E-Commerce Recipes” book. The Money Train is a great book being written by Benjamin Curtis about building e-commerce sites using Ruby on Rails. It's released as a 'beta book' meaning you can buy and read it in PDF form straight away, but over time you'll get tons of free updates… Continue reading The Money Train: A Rails “E-Commerce Recipes” book

Jobs Boards: A shotgun or a rifle?. The problem with huge job boards like Monster or the aggregation that Arrington envisions: There are too many ads. It’s a shotgun approach. If you want to hire just anyone, that will work. But if you want to hire the right person then you’ll need to do something… Continue reading Jobs Boards: A shotgun or a rifle?

Cooper's office phone concept.  Who likes their office phone? [no one raises their hands] Cooper believes they have the answer and have put their money where their concept is. Well, at least it appears they have a UI concept that’s built out. The UI is scroll wheel, touch screen, and voice recognition based. The interface… Continue reading Cooper's office phone concept