NJ School Biz Buzz

January 30th, 2011 No comments »

I am part of a team which recently launched the beta site for NJSchoolBizBuz.com.  It is an online community for New Jersey school business officials..  The site is designed to help school business officials connect with others in the state.   The site is a place where school business officials share best practices, lessons learned and any other advice with other school officials.  And they can ask questions of school officials, vendors, consultants and other subject matter experts..

The site includes a blog where NJ School Biz Buzz bloggers will write articles.  There is a forum where school officials can offer advice or ask questions.  The site will also include a listing of vendors.  And a section where school officials can post RFPs.  The idea is that school officials and vendors can have one central location to get the information they need to obtain and sell their services.

NJSchoolBizBuzz also has a Resource section which will contain important links to other sites, as well as, documents and templates that school officials can use.  The Articles section is a news feed of articles related to the topic of education in New Jersey from news agencies and associations.

The site is in the early stages.  Since it is an online community it will take time for the site to grow and develop.  The seeds have been planted.

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2011 Web Design and Development Conferences in the US

July 31st, 2010 No comments »

Below is a listing of web design and development conferences to be held in the US in 2011:

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2010 Web Design and Development Conferences in the US

July 26th, 2010 No comments »

Below is a brief list of upcoming Web Development and Design conferences scheduled for 2010 in the USA.

Below is a list of conferences that have already taken place in 2010.  Have to wait until 2011….

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Introduction to HTML 5 Video by Brad Neuberg

July 25th, 2010 No comments »

Brad Neuberg’s video on HTML 5 gives a very thorough overview of HTML 5.  This video is approximately 40 minutes in length.

The video covers 5 main topics:

  1. Vector Graphics
  2. Video
  3. Geolocation
  4. App cache and database
  5. Web workers

Overall, HTML 5 has improved on previous versions of HTML in the areas of graphics, location, storage and speed.  It is more powerful.  And there is a tremendous improvement in Javascript performance.

Vector Graphics

Prior to HTML 5, you could not draw or have any interactive content unless you used applications such as Flash or Silverlight.  In HTML 5, SVG and the Canvas API are  now embedded into the DOM.

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics):  You now have tags for drawing graphics.

Canvas API:  This is the javascript API.

Video

HTML 5 now gives you a video tag for embedding video.

Geolocation

Geolocation is now built into the browsers.  For determining the location of the user you can use GPS, IP, Cell ID or WIFI information.

App Cache and Database

If you are going to build a web app, it needs to work anywhere and at anytime.  This new feature helps provide off-line web access.

App Cache is basically super browser cache.  It brings all of the information locally.  You can now create a user interface that can be brought offline.  This will require the user to grant permission to save the data to a local database.  In addition, since the browser can crash or disconnect at any given time, everything needs to be a transaction.

Web works

This lets you to run javascript in the background. Currently, if you start running javascript that is very computationally intensive, it can hose the browser.  Web works allow you to run this javascript in the background and allow the user to continue to interact with the web app.

HTML 5 is currently supported to some extent by the open source browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and Opera, as well as Safari.  It is not supported fully in IE 8.  You will have to wait until it is supported in IE9 before taking full advantage of it.

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