Years ago I had a college professor tell me, “…the most successful people are those that communicate effectively under conflict.” I’ve held this mantra with me over the years, and feel strongly that this phrase applies just as much to developing Web applications as it does when talking to a hostile client or handling those [...]

I’ve been away writing an article for another blog and doing a lot of personal research recently.  No worries though, my routine postings will be returning shortly.

The Internet really brings some great benefits in further making information that normally wouldn’t be easy to find more accessible to the masses. The phrase “information in power” is often quoted, and just as with power, with great information comes great responsibility to those users who might need to find something amongst that information. [...]

I want to thank all of my readers for their readership and loyalty.  It was because of you that for the second time Innovative Thought have been marked as one of the days top growing blogs on WordPress.  The first time we were #84, and this time we are #3!  Thank you all again!
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I don’t know about you but to me I think the idea of CAPTCHA usage is a little backwards. We are asking humans to prove that they are human, how dumb. Plus not only that, but we are more then insisting that low/poor vision users don’t use our applications. Why not start [...]

So yesterday something happened.  Out of nowhere.  I began to “get it”.  All this stuff I was so confused about regarding Rails and Ajax - the holes in my understanding of DOM manipulation.  Now I’m not making claims by any means that I’ve turned into some expert.  I’m simply stating that I’m starting to finally [...]

Of course I am recapping here and reviewing most of my notes now that I am home. I still wanted to share what I had experiences so I’m posting this information a little late. Day 3 and 4 will be coming as well.
The New Hybrid Designer
This was a panel discussion that included Kelly [...]

As I become more familiar with Ruby and Rails I’m of course going to start to understand better ways to do a snippet of code. Here is an updated script that is a little leaner:
(1..100).each do |i|
fb = []
fb << “Fizz” if (i % 3) == 0
fb << [...]

I just got back in from San Francisco and I’m going to take a day or so to get through my notes - I will post my summary from Monday through Wednesday’s sessions in my next post.  Stay Tuned.

So today was the start of the Web 2.0 Expo for those of us attendees registered for the workshops. The official beginning tomorrow for the other sessions and expo hall.
I’m slowly getting used to Pacific Time, thought it’s 10pm here and I think I’m still about 1-2 hours off. So the workshops…
The [...]