Archive for February, 2004
February 24, 2004
Mono Experiment
Jeffrey McManus, who works for eBay, wrote a command-line utility that fetches the current eBay categories and tells you what has changed since the last time you downloaded it. The reason I’m posting about it here is that Jeffrey is asking folks to test out the C# script on a Mono/Linux platform.
I spoke a little bit about Mono at the M&T conference last month, so for those of you who were at the session, this is an example of how the .NET framework is being ported to other platforms. It may eventually be feasible to run most .NET apps on Linux as easily as on Windows.
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February 13, 2004
Article on Standards-based Design
I just came across this article from last year by Jeffrey Veen on the business value of web standards. Nice summary of the benefits.
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February 12, 2004
ASAE-GWSAE Town Hall Part Deux
View from a Corner Office has another nice synopsis of the second town hall meeting for the GWSAE-ASAE meeting. Events conspired to keep me from attending this one, unfortunately. The post from mystery CEO also provided a link to an information page on the GWSAE site about the merger proposal. (Note to designer: blue links on a blue background - not good.)
From what I heard at the M&T meeting this week I think there is a lot of resistance to the merger within the GWSAE membership. The vote very well may fail if they don’t provide more specifics of what changes will occur due to the merger.
Update: Jeff De Cagna has chimed in on the second meeting as well.
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February 6, 2004
Association Trends Awards
If I can chisel my car out of our third or fourth ice storm of the season (ug!) I’ll be heading down to the Capital Hilton for the Association Trends Awards Program. ASHA’s web site got a bronze award this time in the association web site category, our magazine got a silver, and one our PSA campaigns got the gold!
One of the most exciting awards for our team though was the gold in the foundation web site category. Our content management team worked with ASHA’s foundation staff to redevelop their web site, which was still using the same look created for it in the mid-90s as a donation from Microsoft. Our content team and the foundation staff should be very proud of what they developed together.
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February 6, 2004
James on Open Source Content Management Systems
James Robertson has posted a great high-level view of the pros and cons of going with an Open-source content management system instead of a commercial package.
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