There's quite a buzz out there about what's hot in web design, and it's always ringing in my ear when I fire up Photoshop to create a web page. Once I have chosen the appropriate look and feel for a…
Last night Jason and I had the honor of visiting Newport to discuss social media and social networks with seventy-five business owners. That was in a nutshell: scary, rewarding, exhilarating, nervous,…
PayPal API - Request Reponse DiagramRecently I created a sample application that used various parts of the PayPal API. Although I won't be making the complete sample available in this post, I'll…
I recently switched over to google's free gmail client. I'd been using Thunderbird for a couple years and really liked it. But moving to gmail has definitely simplified things for me and greatly…
Last weekend I attended BeaverBarCamp and had a great time. This year I gave my first BarCamp talk/session called jQuery 101. Surprisingly, the session was packed! I should have upgraded from a…
Windows 7 is coming. Thank goodness.Last week my Windows XP development machine got to a point where I simply couldn't take it anymore. Between the OS freezing after a recent Windows Update and Visual…
Repairing relationships feels great. I took me a while (too long) to get over my own emotional immaturity to realize that I was mistreating a customer. The "aha moment" for me occurred as I was…
Twitter TwafficI have just recently hopped on the Twitter bandwagon, hoping to share some news from my design blog at alandesigns. I only have, what, 5 followers right now, so when I shared a link to…
