Archive for January, 2008
Nitobi Hack Day Take Two 
January 29th, 2008
The second Nitobi Hack Day is coming up Feb 9th at our office. Doors open at 9am, Hacking Starts at 10am and Judging will be at 6pm. There’s an iPod Nano Video up for the best app. Sign up on upcoming. You can hack on whatever you want Ajax, Rails, Python, AIR…it’s all free game. Lunch will be provided.
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links for 2008-01-22 
January 21st, 2008
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Very cool study that shows 20%-60% correlation between eye position and mouse position.
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Jakob Nielsen and a bunch of his typical inflammatory remarks on web2.0, Ajax and rich internet applications. More on this soon.
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The Macromedia Flash Search Engine SDK is designed for search engine application engineering teams. Users of the SDK can add Flash file decompression, parsing, and indexing features to their server-based search applications.
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“The Juggernaut plugin for Ruby on Rails aims to revolutionize your Rails app by letting the server initiate a connection and push data to the client. In other words your app can have a real time connection to the server with the advantage of instant upda
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A great book and accompanying website on user interface patterns for web and software in general.
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A great pattern library from Yahoo. Originally put together by Bill Scott I believe. This is a great resource for Ajax developers and designers.
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InsideRIA is Live 
January 21st, 2008
InsideRIA is now officially live! I’m really stoked to be a part of this joint effort by O’reilly and Adobe. We’re going to be covering a wide range of topics including design, development and standards for RIAs. Even though Adobe is sponsoring this portal no technology is off limits so Ajax, Silverlight, Google Gears, Prism, etc are all in bounds. Of course there will be a healthy amount of chatter about Flash, Flex and AIR as these key tools in the RIA kit. I personally hope learn and share a lot about user experience, user interface patterns and new forms of analytics we’re going to need a world with more and more RIAs.
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Ajax Survey - Win an iPod Nano 
January 21st, 2008
We’re
running a survey this month to gather information from web
designers and developers about the tools and platforms they’re using. It’s quite focused on development of Ajax user interfaces.
If you can spare three minutes, I’d appreciate it if you
href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=bpDcVkz3gpWM1sBwcNAAMg_3d_3d">completed
the survey. It’s pretty brief–14 multiple choice and short answer
questions. One person who does will win an iPod Nano. We’ll be
publishing the survey results in February. So everyone wins really:)
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links for 2008-01-17 
January 16th, 2008
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Presentations, clips, and instructional videos on using Google Analytics, Website Optimizer, and AdWords to improve your marketing and website.
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