I'm back from Austin and while I definitely have enough catchup work to keep me busy, I thought I'd post a quick review since it was my first time at the conference. First, I finally got to meet a lot of people in person that I've known for years... Patrick O'Keefe, Chrispian Burks, Jeremy Wright, [...]
A good friend of mine has been working on a book about managing online communities for several years. He's been actually managing online communities for even longer, since 2000. Patrick O'Keefe run several successful online communities such as SportsForums.net, KarateForums.com, PhotoshopForums.com and BadBoyForums.com. Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run [...]
Normally, their reports are fairly expensive but as a holiday gift, Nielsen Norman Group is giving away a 148-page report: Beyond ALT Text: Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities I'm a sucker for freebies.
If you're interested in learning Ruby on Rails (ROR) then now is the time! For a limited time (60 days), SitePoint is offering Patrick Lenz's Ruby on Rails book as a free PDF download.
Magento Commerce, the new open-source e-commerce platform I blogged about a few weeks ago has finally been released. Checkout the demo on their website, or download the beta. It's not production ready (so they say) but the demo is very impressive and I'm hard at work installing and configuring on my own server. I'll have [...]