Summer wrap up
Posted by Jesse Rodgers on August 12, 2004 at 03:52 PM
Just a few things to let you know about. First off, I know its been a bit light on information as to what these new web committees are up to. I will be updating everyone in September with presentations on the Committee’s and what we have been up to.
Tools for web folks
The final version of Contribute 3 will be available soon. I have been working a lot with Macromedia on the testing of the software and it really is a nice a piece of software. Take a look at the preview release, you will be impressed. There will be a presentation on Contribute 3 in September.
Another useful tool is Mozilla’s Firefox – which has grabbed a lot of headlines recently in tech news circles. You can download the latest here:
But what makes it more than a browser are the extensions:
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/
One in particular I highly recommend for web folks is the Web Developer 0.8:
http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/
Read up on the site for more info – basically it allows you to view CSS, remove, highlight, validate, and a few other things to web pages right in the browser.
Communication and information
If you haven’t noticed or been there in a while, I have updated http://web.uwaterloo.ca into a slightly different format. It now includes the RSS feed from my little developers blog:
I post information on what I have been up to, bugs, links, and ramblings. Another space within the UW web that has some information for everyone is WatITb, from Yvan Rodrigues:
“I would like to invite all web developers and designers to join WatITb, the collaborative web board for UW IT/IS staff.
As the board grows, there will be more discussion on XHTML, CSS, ECMAscript etc.
The address is http://watitb.uwaterloo.ca “
If Yvan can get a RSS feed out of that, I will include it on web.uwaterloo well ;)
At end off this link rich email (in web page form), I would like to say have a great rest of the summer. I am off to jolly ole England next week until Labour Day. If you have any web questions, you can email me, I might respond but I can’t promise anything…