I was very happy to stumble across this site today that shows me the art of the poster is alive and well: http://www.powertotheposter.org . I love poster design because the medium lends itself very well to bold, simple and poignant ideas.

I have been working on open source projects for almost as long as I have been a programmer. In the course of my career and my work on SkyBlueCanvas and WYMeditor, I have interacted and talked with a lot of people about open source. There are a lot of misconceptions about what Open Source is and is not.

I have moved all of the SkyBlueCanvas project code to Source Forge to try to better organize all of the resources. You can view the project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/skybluecanvas/

One of my favorite forms of art is graffiti. I am aware that graffiti is legally considered vandalism, but I still consider the higher quality graffiti to be legitimate art. I have no legal defense of graffiti but it is beautiful. I would even argue that the best graffiti being created today is far better than much of what passes as main stream fine art.

I have posted a new update of SkyBlueCanvas version 1.1 (r247). This latest update fixes a few bugs and integrates some of the more commonly-used add-ons into the standard distribution. The new release is aimed at making template conversion much easier.

I am very happy to announce that the first ever commercially available Premium Template, designed by Qiming Weng, has been released on ThemeForest.net.

At the end of May of 2009, I prematurely announced that SkyBlueCanvas version 2.0 was nearly ready for an alpha release. It was a little embarrassing to have to redact that announcement but SkyBlueCanvas is an one-man outfit supported by my day job, so it can be difficult at times to find the time and [...]

Image manipulation software is a required tool in every web designer and developers tool box. If you are an independent contractor, however, the large price tag on Adobe Photoshop can take quite a bit out of your budget and your paycheck. Recently, while poking around to find a more affordable alternative to Photoshop for Mac, I [...]

A few weeks ago I was following along in a FaceBook comment thread on a post by my friend Scott (same name, different guy). Someone jokingly made a reference to the “What Would Tyler Durden Do” and “What Would Jesus Do” memes. A follow-up joke pointed out that with Scott there would only be three [...]

The Filament Group has created a plugin for the jQuery JavaScript Framework that will render HTML table data as bar, line or area charts using the HTML 5 Canvas element. The plugin takes the headache and custom coding out of visualizing tabular data as graphic charts. The data is also 100% accessible for non-graphical user agents as well since the data already exists in the page as an HTML table.