Jukka-Pekka Keisala

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Great presentation of Canvas -tag and how to draw it in JavaScript.

I just saw a very interesting slideshow about Designing Web Interfaces by Bill Scott in SlideShare.  I suggest checking out if you are interested about GUI stuff.

Also you can see his whole presentation (1:24:33) on YouTube (Sound is not very good unfortunally). I have not yet watched whole presentation but it is on my calendar.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW4MwvgW_ww[/youtube]

Ever wonder how can you be sure that search engines do understand what is real name of your page you want to index?

Now, you can simply add this <link> tag to specify your preferred version:

<link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.example.com/product/123″ />

Matt Cutts of Google introduces the canonical link element.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm9onOGTgeM[/youtube]

Resources:
Blog post on Google webmaster blog:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspo…

Yahoo blog post:
http://ysearchblog.com/2009/02/12/fig…

Microsoft:
http://blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/archi…

Ask:
http://blog.ask.com/2009/02/ask-is-go…

Google Help Center documentation:
http://google.com/support/webmasters/…

Joost de Valk: WordPress, Magento, and Drupal
http://yoast.com/canonical-url-links/

I was hoping that it would happen but I never believed that Microsoft would involved themselves in OpenSource library. But luckily I was wrong. ScottGu writes:

I’m excited today to announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward.  We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch.  The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.

It seems that Microsoft is really starting to turn their ship towards Open Source, it is great to see that they did choose best technology for developers.

John Resig (founder of jQuery) has released his JavaScript port of the Processing visualization library today using Canvas. This is an excellent addition to the world of JavaScript graphics programming, it works best on Firefox 3.0.

I am going to keep close eye on this project.

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I was amazed about Flex when I first saw it but even more amaze I got when I realize that as a developer I was not able to get even trial without paying. Like I posted about it in 2004. I never installed it to my pc where I evaluate everything before recommending to a customer. Macromedia clearly had forgot something that Microsoft does quite well.

Anyway, it seems that now that Adobe takes more developer friendly approach by announcing plans to open source Flex under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). I hope not too late, though.

Microsoft will be very strong on bringing Silvelight to their developer community. Many says that Microsoft will fail because they have no graphics community behind but I don’t think it’s entirely true. After all they do have directX and great developer tools and network. Also, penetration market on Silverlight is easy to fix by wrapping it to some security update from WindowsUpdate.

I have always loved Adobe/Macromedia desktop products but somehow they are not very appealing for me when  it comes to ServerSide. I think they should focus much more giving out to developers. After all it’s us who recommend products and it’s us who answers to our bosses questions if we should look deeper on the given technology.

The picture tells more than… well, it is possible to run Internet Explorer in standalone mode without having to over-write previous versions.

Thanks to Tredosoft Multiple IE installer this is easy task now.

It’s not fully stable but it’s good enough for testing sites with older browsers. Read more about it here

Instead of installing new Internet Explorer I strongly recommend to have a look Firefox 2.0 instead.