Archive for 2009
Ten Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers
From TechCrunch, here’s an article by guest author Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg and the cofounder of Revision3 and Pownce. Kevin, who has over 88,000 followers on Twitter (making him the second most followed after President Obama), also “bloggs” at kevinrose.com. He is an investor in Twitter. Here’s the short hand version of the whole article: Explain to your visitors what retweeting is Fill out your bio “Link it up” – Put links to your Twitter profile everywhere Tweet about your passions in life and #hash tag them. Bring your twitter account into... [read more]
jQuery with John Resig video
An impressive presentation by jQuery JavaScript library creator John Resig at our January 2009 WebPub meet-up. John put a lot of work into preparing what was truly a lesson plan, and he delivered it very well. It was accessible to anyone in the audience, regardless of skill or experience level. Many thanks to MIT TechTV for hosting the video feed for us! [read more]
Meet-up with CSS guru Eric Meyer
From our Harvard friends…we should invite them to the ‘tute more often if we keep getting invites like this! ——————————– Hello fellow WWW’s, I want to extend an invitation to a special Web event on Monday, February 2nd. Eric Meyer, Dan Cederholm, Marc Amos, and our former colleague Ethan Marcotte have planned a meet-up/networking event for Boston web designers / developers / etc. Here is a brief summary: Created by two Salem web geeks, Marc Amos and Angelo Simeoni, the Build Guild is a monthly event where folks... [read more]
Flash Mobile Day at Harvard
Our friends down the road are hosting a Flash Mobile Day this week (Thursday, January 29) and they’ve invited WebPub members to attend. Scott Janousek (Boston-based) will be on-hand to discuss Flash Lite 3 and how the new Adobe eLearning Suite can be incorporated into a Flash Mobile workflow. Additionally, they will be viewing 2 Flash Mobile eSeminars (Nokia from 10-11 AM, and GetJar from 12-1), with Scott speaking before and after the GetJar session. A venue is booked for 9:30 — 1:30 that day and it holds 40 people. They’d like to get as many Boston-area Flash Mobile developers... [read more]
Web Standards Advisor extension for Dreamweaver
Jeffrey Zeldman, kind of all things designed with web standards, has created a Web Standards Advisor extension (http://www.webassist.com/professional/products/productdetails.asp?PID=255&WAAID=889) for Adobe Dreamweaver for the low low price of only $49.99 (do you think I’ll get a free license for plugging it here?). It includes two major interfaces: The Web Validator validates your HTML and CSS and verifies the proper use of microformats, including hCard and hCalendar, for single pages or entire websites. The Web Standards Advisor checks for subtleties of standards compliance in nine... [read more]
