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A bookmarklet that’ll overlay a baseline grid on top of whatever page your viewing. A simple idea done well.

I’m going to be helping out with a one-day session on Adobe AIR, Flex, Ajax and other Adobe RIA technologies in Vancouver on August 30th (Upcoming.org link). Our stop on the bus in Vancouver was without a doubt the most crowded one so I’m hoping that momentum can swing into this event and we can […]

In pursuit of a good list of AIR applications I’ve created a the AIR Apps Wiki on pbwiki that lets anyone edit and add AIR applications that they’ve created or seen. Right now we’re up to 76 and while this is by no means an official list, I hope people check it out, add to […]

As if her ALA article wasn’t enough, Ms. Jones has redesigned her site. Nice work!!

Bronwyn gives us a great article about writing that draws many apt parallels between writing and design. Good stuff.

Okay, I can’t take it any more. I like Silverlight, but this whole notion that Silverlight is SEO friendly because XAML, the presentation layer, is exposed as plain text is bogus. Let’s take the Silverlight airlines demo as an example. It’s written in the 1.1 alpha, which is what most developers are targeting. To […]

I was reading through some of the posts about Ray Ozzie’s speech in which he laid out Microsoft’s strategy and got to thinking about the different approach from Adobe and Microsoft because this quote from Stowe Boyd caught my eye:
The likelihood is that Microsoft will be/is being blindsided by a wave of tiny startups that […]

I received the following note in email today:

Dear Mr. Zimmermann,

We are awarding a $5000 Scholarship Prize to the winning student of our Web Design Contest.

Complete details are located here:

www.collegescholarships.org/our-scholarships/web-design.htm

We are now accepting applications, and the deadline is approaching very soon, on August 14, 2007. Our distinguished panel of judges will then decide on the winner.

If you think some of your readers would be interested, then please let them know any way you see fit.

From their website:

We are launching a cool new website, New Scholarships.org, and are in need of a fantastic design to replace the current default WordPress look. Since we are already experienced in handing out scholarship awards, this is a fun way for us to receive a great new website design…and a talented student to receive $5000!

If you’re interested or know someone who might be, please pass the link along. This sounds like a great opportunity for a student who’s interested in web design.

There are a lot of reasons so many people use Flash but one of them is that nearly everyone has it on their system. And one of the most powerful things about the platform is that the people who have it update it very quickly. Ted Patrick took a look at the download numbers and […]

Tomorrow I’m going to be attending the Facebook Developer Garage here in Seattle (Facebook event here). The Facebook developer garages are all organized by individual developers who want to talk about Facebook with other developers in their area. It’s a fully grassroots driven event and right now for the Seattle event there are 209 […]