Last week A List Apart, an online magazine for professionals in the web industry, has two excellent articles about the challenges in getting colleges and universities nationwide offer curriculum relevant in Web development and design. Higher education is simply not meeting the needs of the industry. Mark Greenfield, director of the Office of Web Services [...]
A colleague here at OIT (thanks, Justin!) just sent this tidbit to me. Adobe is releasing ColdFusion 8 (a.k.a. CF) free for students and educators. This is a really interesting development because previously you needed to own a license to use and learn about ColdFusion. Since open source programming languages (like php and Ruby on [...]
In case you didn’t see this announcement, the Statewide Internet Group (a.k.a. SWIG) is seeking entries for the 2008 Swiggy Awards. The contest is intended to highlight the best in state organizations’ website design and ends Oct. 1. Here is the original press release:
Nominations Sought for 2008 Swiggy Awards for Web Excellence
For the second [...]
In addition to my web development duties here at the Office of Information Technology, I am an adjunct faculty member for the School of Journalism. I’ve been teaching PR319 – Public Relations Editing and Design for the past 4 1/2 years or so. Being inclined to post materials for my students online anyway, I’ve always [...]