Besides the overwhelming amount of articles and blog postings about the pros and cons on the iPad, the failure of loading the Flash element during Steve Jobs’ demo of the NYT website may have resulted in another war -- Flash verses HTML 5.
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Tags: Adobe, Internet, Multi Media, Open Standards, Web Design

Almost thirty hours since the iPad announcement and still critics are pulling out their guns and shooting at Apple's latest creation. The overall reaction has been rather negative. What was hotly anticipated has mostly turned into cold soup. So what happened and what has been said?
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Tags: Apple, iPad, eReader, Multi Media, eBooks, Internet

Here is my take on today’s iPad announcement by Steve Jobs. Reading the many responses about the announcements reveals that there are a lot of doubters. Let’s be clear it isn't supposed to be a Netbook, or a Laptop, it's a device for consumers...
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Tags: Apple, eReader, Multi Media, Internet, eBooks, iPad

My first web sites I design, way back, were all done using a text editor to code each page in HTML. Over time tools became available that made the task easier. These days the two dominate Open Source tools for web site and blog design are Wordpress and Drupal. However, as good as they are I find them an overkill for this web site.
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Tags: Web Design, RapidWeaver

The good news, BuddyPress is a Wordpress MU plugin and because of it you basically install it with the click of a button through the admin section. The bad news is, WordPress MU is a simple system for launching a practically limitless network of blogs.
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Tags: BuddyPress, WordPress, bbPress, Web Design

As mention in my last BP post, I finally got the three components (WP MU, BP and bbPress) to work together allowing me to evaluate the system. It was not without running into problems, the biggest one was the integration between WP MU and bbPress since both are actually stand-alone systems.
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Tags: BuddyPress, bbPress, Web Design

As mention before one of my choices was to base my site on the Insoshi project, an open-source social networking platform based on RubyOnRails, since I had played around with its predecessor, RailsSpace. However, as good as the Insoshi looked, and its code base being very clear because of the Rails’ MVC architecture, I decided against it.
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Tags: WordPress, BuddyPress, RubyOnRails, bbPress, Web Design

Before I post my feedback about my finding regarding the suitability of BuddyPress and Drupal for my Social Network project, it would only make sense that I first post my requirements.
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Tags: BuddyPress, Drupal, Web Design

One of my personal projects I am working on is setting up a Social Network site. For now I will not mention the community is is for, but after it is completed you will know all about it.
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Tags: WordPress, BuddyPress, Drupal, RubyOnRails, Web Design