There are many ways to serve up music on your website. You can offer it as a podcast, stream it with Quicktime, Real Media, even Windows Media. You can embed music as a page background in several formats. Or you can offer the music in a downloadable format via regular file transfer or BitTorrent. But, […]

Paul Scrivens over at 9rules Network wrote a short opinion piece asking the question. It’s a good one to ponder. His position is basically, “how can an independent consultant afford not to”?

I’ve been heavily interested in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. It’s the only sporting event that I pay a lot of attention to. So, it’s understandable that I visit sports sites like Sports Illustrated and ESPN. One of things I find really annoying about ESPN is that it loads a Flash movie automatically on every […]

iCal is a beautiful little program. As a desktop application it is easy to use and reliable. As a tool to share your calendars with the world it is fabulous.
Here you’ll find a pile of iCal links covering iCal basics, tips, and ways to share your iCal vial online services and tools.

I had never heard of this program until I checked the TextMate documentation and saw it listed as one of the programs that supports TextMate as an external editor. Okay, I thought. They are current with the latest Macintosh Web buzz. I’ll try it out.

It is common to think of web projects as technical undertakings and so our focus goes first to technical solutions. Should I use Dreamweaver, Flash or a CMS? Maybe a blog or web service will be better. Back up. You ain’t even ready yet.

Just a quick addition to Wednesday links. Gluttonous has posted a nice and short tutorial for web designers that outlines the basics of Ruby On Rails. It has some good diagrams and sample code.