DIY UX: Give Your Users an Upgrade Without Calling In a Pro.

HTML5 and CSS3 virtual classes – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report.

$150, online (starts at noon in DC), speakers include John Resig, the lead dev of jQuery.

Some great tips about jQuery and efficient use of it.

• smooth the planning process
• get a clearer picture of site information
• provide a precise framework for designers & coders
• build up a more intense project relationship with clients
• improve the communication process

via HotGloo – The Online Wireframe App.

It completely transformed how Automattic works internally and I think is one of the most valuable things we’ve adopted in the past year. I’m on the road a lot, and sometimes my only connection is checking the mobile-optimized P2 on my iPhone.

I’m excited about P2 partly because blogs provide an incredibly robust infrastructure on which to build more advanced apps and this is a good example of that.

via How P2 Changed Automattic — Matt Mullenweg.

1) SLOW. Part of this can be the server it is on, or the bandwidth and latency between here and there. But even on a fast server sitting next to you, the interface is a) coded inefficiently, and b) slow and awkward to use.

2) Not open. A web application falls several notches right off the bat if I can’t use the browser of my choice as an equal citizen. In Sharepoint’s case (at least, with this version), I can open a page and create a post in a browser such as Google Chrome, but I have no access to the WYSIWIG tools for working with the post that Internet Explorer gets. Adhering to open standards has accessibility benefits way beyond which browser you can use – searchability and usability jump way up.

related: See my post on IE6 and how it causes untold headaches in IT: http://voltage.bstonetech.com/blog/2010/01/its-time-to-stop-using-ie6-ed-bott’s-microsoft-report-zdnet-com/ (note: the linked article barely even touches on the coding nightmare having IE6 as a lowest common denominator brings about)

We are seeing a sea change in the both the pervasiveness of these applications and the breadth of applications and providers. This is resulting in broad, mainstream adoption, and out of necessity team members are clamoring for more use of these tools in day-to-day delivery of project items. This raises the issue of how best to integrate these types of tools into a process methodology.

In an upcoming series of posts, I will be taking a look at different tools that currently exist, various issues that are faced when embracing these new technologies, and how best to use them to extend and empower business processes.

“Any IT professional who is still allowing IE6 to be used in a corporate setting is guilty of malpractice. Think that judgment is too harsh? Ask the security experts at Google, Adobe, and dozens of other large corporations that are cleaning up the mess from a wave of targeted attacks that allowed source code and confidential data to fall into the hands of well-organized intruders.”

via It’s time to stop using IE6 | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com.

via Dive Into HTML5.