Web Geeks Annual Social Event is March 4th
After taking a month long break it's time to kick off a new year of Web Geeks events and we're going to begin, as we always do, with our annual social event. If you've never been to a web geeks…
Take a Class From Harvard for Free by @Mrsmadbiz
I just signed up for a free online course at MIT in programming. You can too, unless you would prefer a course from Harvard or Berkley. Through a nonprofit partnership called edX, select courses are available to anyone in the…
Skeuomorphism and the Picture Plane by @rachelmc
User interfaces patterned after analog equivalents have been critiqued endlessly. Love it or loathe it, visual skeuomorphic principles are used in a number of modern application interfaces. These products are either trying to delight us with the richness of physical…
Say Hello To VagrantPress by @chadothompson
I’d like to introduce you to a nifty little project I published on GitHub that I call Vagrantpress. Vagrantpress is a development environment for creating, customizing and developing on the WordPress CMS platform. A little background When I was putting…
Need a compliment? Take one! by @Mrsmadbiz
I saw a flyer on a grocery store bulletin board recently. It looked like an advertisement for a used couch or guitar lessons. It had tabs at the bottom of the page to tear off and take with you. Instead…
Gartner Reports: Words Mean Things by @chadothompson
It’s interesting that the biggest issues in technology have little to do with technology, and more to do with defining the meaning of language. It’s impossible to make sense of data unless there is some baseline agreement on what the…
UX Resources for ADF Developers by @chadothompson
In response to a recent question, Ultan O’Broin posed a question about ADF applications and any books on user interface design. I posted a response with a few links that I thought might be worth reposting here. I know there’s…
Javascript web apps with Ember.js – Lunch meeting Thurs Jan 3rd
We're starting off the new year the web geek way with a lunch meeting hosted by Toran Billups. Help take your Javascript application development to the next level by leveraging the cutting edge MVC framework Ember.js. Toran will be showing…
robots.txt for Entire Development Server by @jrearick
I have a development server I use to let users play around or load a site up with content before it goes live. On this server I have virtual hosts for each site. None of the information on these development…
Why Use Git With JDeveloper? by @chadothompson
If you’re a JDeveloper user and haven’t noticed yet – the JDeveloper 11.1.1.6 version has been update with support for the git source control repository. If you’re looking for great detail on how to use the repository integration itself, I’ll…