Social Justice is a movement to end injustice in the world
Social Justice is a movement to end injustice in the world. Find something you are passionate about and can do something about. ijm.org
Balanced Rocks at Sunset in San Diego
This weekend I celebrated my 10 year anniversary by taking a day trip to San Diego with my bride. Along the coast was a street performer showing his talent of balancing rocks. We happened to stroll by as the sun dipped toward the ocean and I took a quick picture with my iPhone. © 2009, Bill Heaton.
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Learning Flex by building a Calculator
This year I set a goal to learn Adobe Flex 3. I have found the help of other professionals and the OCFlex.org user group. Besides the Flex Video Training, I found that the best source of understanding ActionScript using the MXML library is by reading and coding the examples in the book “First Steps in Flex”. To keep myself accountable to this goal, I agreed to train my cousin in learning Flex programming; is who is on
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Five steps to creating findable websites for small and medium-sized business
Documenting process becomes promotion of small business website sales… In the past couple weeks I decided to focus on small businesses by making a goal to create a program that will help their website be findable. Beginning in 2004 I began to sell website design to local companies and still build websites for local medium size businesses in Orange County. I began to document the process of working together with business owners and managers. The first step
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How to learn more about Ruby on Rails
“Learning Rails has been an awesome way to learn about programming; using the ‘Rails’ framework and opinions helped me to learn best practices and object oriented programming concepts.” How I did it: I bought Simply Rails 2 and coded the example digg like site, ‘shovel’. Then got very excited about rails and bought the Agile Web Development with Rails book; and built the example store application. Since I’m a huge fan of twitter I built my own
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Crowd Notes (Twitter favorites) from An Event Apart 2009 Seattle
One thing I really enjoy about Twitter is the conversations that happen during an event. So, while attending An Event Apart this week, I took most of my notes on my iPhone. My powerbook is 7 years old, and I refused to take my PC to this event. Surprisingly, the iphone worked out great. At times the wireless was faulty; but the iPhone fell back on the edge network. I spent two days of tweeting while marking
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Field Notes From An Event Apart 2009 for Web Professionals – Day One
5/4/2009 Jeffrey Zeldman on Redesign, session 1 Be a strategic design partner, or else you will not influence the design …do the research. —@Zeldman
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Alpha release of PrayerLife.NET, a social (prayer) Web site
I’m working on a new social prayer site at PrayerLife.NET feel free to visit, create an account and share/manage your prayers online. PrayerLife.NET is social media web service, a tool for users to connect & prayer with others. Features: prayer and list sharing (pubic or private). This site is currently an alpha release, proof of concept. Visit the about page here. I am looking for people to test the concept, who would like to use the internet
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