The first meeting of the Mpls.-St. Paul WordPress User Group is slated for July 30, 2009. We’ll be talking about a slew of WP topics, including: Organizing Wordcamp Twin Cities 2009 Converting rocking HTML Designs into rocking WordPress Templates WordPress Overview for Beginners WordPress as a CMS Details: Minneapolis St. Paul WordPress User Group Kickoff [...]
I’m hoping to stir up some interest in organizing a WordCamp here in the Twin Cities. I’ll “run point” but could use some other enthusiasts to assist. We have a thriving interactive community that presumably should be interested in things WordPress. Any takers? Email jmyers at visi dot com or @jaymyers
There seems to be a number of open-source ecommerce packages gaining in popularity this past year, upgrading and coming out of beta. Just as Drupal and Joomla are dominating the open-source CMS market (along with one of my faves, CMS Made Simple), the ecommerce arena may soon have a few dominant players. (Or maybe not.) [...]
Hola MinneUX’ers– Next month we have a slight twist to our meetups — Lynn Smith, local IA/IxD pro, will be presenting a demo of a very creative, non-facilitated “discount” usability test/heuristic evaluation, followed by open discussion about the methodology used, its rigor and validity — basically, “Is this a good way to gather feedback?” Lynn [...]
MNteractive’s own Fred Beecher is offering a Basic and Advanced class on prototyping with Axure at the Minneapolis Public Library in October. They’re $599 each, and if you’re interested, sign up at http://axuretraining.eventbrite.com/
There’s a lot of similarity between the design world and the software development world. If only because the line between the two is caterpillar fuzzy. What interests me about both of them is their low startup costs – just a brain, a computer, a phone, and some experience. Where does this experience come from? From [...]
I happened across an announcement from a few days back that Dean Edwards had updated his IE7 script: http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2008/01/ie7-2/ This is a script that Dean created several years ago to make IE6 more standards compliant. It was interesting at the time, but I never got around to using it. This past week I’ve been dealing [...]
Joyent just GPLv2′d Connector – their collaboration suite including; mail, calendar, lists, bookmarks, files, and tagging. I’ve been watching the Connector grow for a year or two now. While it never clicked with me [1], it always felt 1 feature short of being a Highrise – if not Basecamp – killer. That missing feature was [...]
(Ed. Note: I had intended to expand upon this post some more, but figured that I best just get this out the door, as I may never get to it and I didn’t want the links getting too stale…) Microsoft SharePoint seems to be penetrating all areas of the web as of late. It’s been [...]
Now that Freehand is officially dead I figure it’s time I start playing the field again and look for a new love. Here’s the list of potential candidates I’m aware of. Has anyone had a fling with any of these options? If so, please share your thoughts. And please add any that I’ve missed. Adobe [...]