Soon we are going to see websites that are cooler than never before. Because of native Scalable Vector Graphics support in forthcoming Web browser releases. Check out article about it in Publish

Whisper Brand Strategy Consultants has a blog about branding.

I got 440 Trackbacks selling pharmacy stuff and online casino’s.
I got really pissed, now I have declared war against those f***** spammers.

Dave Pawson is blogging.

Saxonica is the new home of the Saxon XSLT and XQuery processor developed by Michael Kay. Saxonica undertakes the development of the Saxon XSLT, XQuery, and XML Schema processor.

It will take a long while before we see XSLT 2.0 from Microsoft. Therefore, for anyone who wants to play with XSLT 2.0 and XQuery, download SAXON from Sourceforge. I heard it works nicely with .NET.

Here is a small list of Open Source Flash Projects. Tell me if you know more.

FFIE
Alternative for Macromedia Flex
http://www.fluidflashinterfaces.com/

Laszlo
The development and delivery platform.
http://www.openlaszlo.org/

Flash For Linux
Development environment for Macromedia Flash,
http://f4l.sourceforge.net/

AS Development Tool (asdt)
A plugin for the popular Eclipse platform to work with ActionScript 2 files
http://www.asdt.org/

JavaSWF2
Set of Java packages that enable the parsing, manipulation and generation of the SWF.
http://www.anotherbigidea.com/javaswf/

Ming
SWF output library and PHP module
http://ming.sourceforge.net/

SSWF
The library which enables a programmer to easily create an SWF file.
http://sswf.sourceforge.net/

AsUnit
Unit Test Framework for Macromedia Flash ActionScript 2.0
http://www.asunit.com/

GPLFlash
GPL licensed flash player.
http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/

MTASC
ActionScript 2 Open Source free compiler
http://www.mtasc.org/

Flash Ant
Command-line Flash Compiler
http://www.flashant.org/

Flirt
SWF rendering library.
http://flirt.sourceforge.net/

Swfmill
Tool to process SWF files. It can convert SWF from and to an XML-dialect. xml2swf, swf2xml, libxslt-based XSL transformator etc.
http://iterative.org/swfmill/

SolVE
Local Shared Object Viewer/Editor
http://solve.sourceforge.net/

As a web developer I haven’t been able to figure out what will I do with XAML on my work. First when I heard about XAML I though XAML will be Microsoft replacement for SVG. After looking XAML I got really angry for Microsoft because I was unable to find any W3C standards except XML in it. This would it mean that I can’t reuse CSS, SVG etc. in XAML. Until today I have lived on misconception that MS is just out to push some new proprietary standard.

» Continue reading “XAML isn?t for the web.”

I don’t think this is very good news for anyone who works on tools from Adobe or Macromedia. I guess if you are Freehand or Fireworks user you should start learning Illustrator and Photoshop.

It will be intresting to see wheater this goes through because this will lead Adobe in design software to clear monopoly.

Here is official news

Plastic Bugs has made GIMP look like Photoshop. Original purpose for GIMPshop was to make the Gimp accessible to the many Adobe Photoshop users out there. You can get GIMPshop for Mac, Linux and Windows. See GIMPshop page for more information or try yourself by download GIMPshop for Windows.