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It is amazing how fast these weeks have been flying by. I have a couple of “real” blog posts that I have been working on, and I need to finish them up and get them published. Here are a few things that I found interesting in the last week: Introducing Ubiquity After watching the Aurora concept videos, it is great to see something similar already be in development. Finding Harmony Between Categor…

Ah, long weekends are the best. I got a lot of freelance work done, and I’m hoping to finish up the couple of projects I am working on so that I can redesign my site. Here is what I found interesting this week: How Simple Web Design Helps Your Business This is a list showing how some nice design decisions have helped these e-commerce sites. Web Design by Designers When award-winning design firms…

Hopefully I am getting down to the last month of so of doing these weekly round-ups. On my new site, I plan on having an aside section for posting a link and a short blurb. Here are a few links that I found interesting this week: Build Your First Facebook App While there is an abundance of Facebook Apps (and a lot of annoying ones), this is a nice tutorial about creating them. Sneakernet SVN Dav…

It seems like more and more these days, JavaScript tabbed interfaces are being used. There are plenty of scripts out there, but I think it is important to be able to do things yourself. A lot of JavaScript “plugins” that you will find online will give you way more than you really need, and you may understand how to use it, but you will not really understand what it is really doing. First, I thoug…

Another busy week with freelance, but hopefully I’ll be able to finish them up shortly so I can work more on my redesign/realign. My hope is to finish it before I go to An Event Apart Chicago in October. Just a few interesting things I found this week: Developing a better CMS This is an interesting article describing the process of creating the CMS Firerift. Firerift looks interesting, but the w…

It’s hard to believe that it’s already the middle of August. This week was a bit crazy: managing two freelance projects and getting my company website launched. My CEO agreed that if we got the site launched by Friday, she would send myself and my fellow Front-End Developers to An Event Apart Chicago. So yeah, that’s going to be awesome. Now, here is what I found interesting this week: Aurora Con…

When they were writing the specifications for CSS, why didn’t they allow things to be floated center? I was looking through an old site at work this week, that was developed long before me, and I saw someone tried to do this: float: center. So that got me thinking, why would they include the specification to float left and right, but not center? Imagine the posibilities…the following are just a…

My company, Matrix Group International, is currently looking to hire Web Designers, Web Developers, Python Software Engineers, a Product Manager, and an Executive Assistant to the CEO. We are located just outside of Old Town Alexandria, VA. We are having an Open House on Friday from 4-7pm. So if you or anyone you know could fill those spots, come join us on Friday.

I just found out today that if we get our company website launched by Wednesday, our company is going to send myself and the other Front-End Developers to An Event Apart Chicago, so that’s pretty awesome. Just a few links from this week: A Small Study Of Big Blogs: Further Findings After an article last week discussing some of the findings from a survey of the 50 most popular blogs, Smashing Magaz…

It’s that time of the year again, the A List Apart 2008 Survey is out. It only takes a few minutes to fill out, and the data compiled at the end is awesome. I look forward to seeing the results in the next few weeks.