Monthly Archives: June, 2009
Latest Acid3 Results (Microsoft Be Concerned)
Today marks the release of Firefox 3.5, an exciting update to what is arguably the best browser on the market. Since this is a release that focuses on new and emerging web technologies, I thought it’d be an opportune time for a quick checkpoint (via the Acid3 test) on the latest and greatest from [...]
Adobe Beats Microsoft To The Punch: Acrobat.com Presentations
Adobe has announced the release of Acrobat.com Presentations, a Flash-based presentation application. This looks to be a capable, albeit average presentation tool. Although they beat Microsoft to the cloud with a presentation solution, I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s best of breed. When you stack it up against [...]
Get Inspired At The MoCCA Festival
Earlier this month, the MoCCA Festival took place at the 69th Regiment Armory in NYC. I was introduced to the event by my girlfriend, who was exhibiting a selection of her incredible work at the show. Although I’ve visited the museum a few times, I was really unaware of what the MoCCA Festival [...]
Roll Your Own IDE
Whether taking a quick note on a random task or idea, or banging out a chunk of markup for an enterprise-scale application, I often find myself relying on Notepad++ as a quick and easy way to capture stuff. For braindumps, nothing beats it. For those not already familiar with Notepad++, you can get more info [...]
NY Tech Meetup – June 09 Recap: Part 2
So far we’ve looked at UpNext, Centrl, and NYSenate.gov in the June recap of NY Tech Meetup. In part 2 we’ll be looking at LiveStream, MakerBot, Mahalo, Aviary, and the Personal Democracy Forum.
LiveStream
Once they hit the stage it was apparent LiveStream was a different kind of animal when it comes to live video and [...]
NY Tech Meetup – June 09 Recap: Part 1
This month’s NY Tech Meetup drew a record audience that filled FIT’s Haft Auditorium. So much cool stuff was showcased, that I’m not going to go too far in-depth here. Nevertheless, I’m breaking this out into two parts to keep things a little more manageable and readable. For full video coverage, click [...]
Quick Tip: Make Flash Play Nice With The DOM
Ever been working on a web application or site and encountered the nasty little issue of Flash floating over everything else? No matter what you do to your markup or CSS, the Flash object just keeps appearing above everything in the page. Forget about tweaking position properties or z-index values, it just won’t work.
The problem [...]
