June 13th, 2008
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If you’re looking to break into the web dev industry, start your own development and design business, or learn a few new skills to remain a competitive force in your field, you don’t necessarily have to go back to school and pay for an expensive degree. The Internet is full of free tutorials and collections from top universities and well-respected websites to train you in areas like web design, graphics and imaging, programming and coding, multimedia, connecting with your audience, and even learning freelancing and entrepreneurial skills to help you grow your business. We’ve collected over 100 of the best open courseware collections in this mega list just to get you started.
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June 12th, 2008
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I believe the recent surge in popularity of CSS frameworks comes from a lack of basic
understanding of the CSS box model and how it’s implemented across browsers. I wanted to share with you some quick
tips on how to avoid easy pitfalls so you can create your own CSS framework in no time flat, without all the cruft of
having ten thousand column combinations available. Keeping these quick tips in mind at all times will allow you to
do something I like to call defensive coding — and really that’s all CSS frameworks are: defensively coded
snippets of CSS.
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June 10th, 2008
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Most people really like the embedded Google Maps, but don’t know how easy it is to add them to any page. I’ve had a few people ask me how it is done. With a little bit of HTML knowledge, anyone can quickly have a map up and running in just a few minutes.
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June 10th, 2008
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It looks like the last couple of days I have just been posting about particular screencasts that have become available regarding IBM offerings that are in the pipeline to go live some time during the course of this year and which touch the realm of knowledge sharing and collaboration. So far I have been posting about Lotus Connections, then Lotus Quickr and it looks like I may well have one more for you. At least, for now. This time around on another offering that I have been making use of myself for a number of months and which some of you may find interesting as well, specially since it is something that I have covered over here already in the past and which I mentioned I would be digging into it further some more.
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