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.) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
So I’m a Flash Guy, but here’s my current dilemma. Currently I have no site of of my own. I used to host JakeFreeberg.com off a machine at home, but that’s just a bad solution. It allowed me to play with WordPress and MovableType installs and learn a few things, I really need to put [...]
First post here, for a longtime reader and sometime coffee-time attender. My company is hiring. I’m particularly keen to see the Web Designer position filled by someone with IA and usability interests and skills. Feel free to contact me privately at peter at peknet.com about my experience at Atomic Learning.
Yesterday I mentioned RapidWeaver, a HTML editor worth taking a look at. In the past, I’ve mentioned NVU, an open-sourced clone of DreamWeaver. While NVU is nice, it hasn’t been updated in well over a year and is still missing some niceties. Another new option I just ran across is aptana. Aptana is still in [...]
My TiBook 667 finally has been upgraded to a shiny new MacBook. (If anyone is looking for a used TiBook with a few ‘issues’…let me know ;o) The MacBook is great, and has that nice built-in iSight camera. Fun! Alas, I can’t record any video on it. Why is that? Well, as usual, that feature [...]
A question was brought up at the recent UPA-MN conversation on Web 2.0. The idea that giving ideas away for free was in some way detrimental to business success. That in fact, sharing is worse than not. My problem with that perspective is that I also believe: “…value is in creating the thing, not simply [...]
I stumbled upon two relatively new and interesting sites today pertaining to open some new free resources for usability and accessibility help. The first is WAT-C (Web Accessibility Tools Consortium). It’s a group that has banded together to help develop free tools to assist in testing accessibility issues with web sites. I’ve mentioned some of [...]
As I’ve been working at my new job for Sun Microsystems for about 7 months now, I’m starting to put some standards in place for our group. One thing my manager and I wanted to do was use Sun tools for standard documentation. I use a Mac as do many thousands of Sun employees. I [...]