The need for wireframes is ever present in our dear business of web design. Being able to effectively diagram a site’s information and navigation proves helpful in the beginning concept stages, especially when presenting to people outside the domain of UI, IA and design. But selecting the wireframe tool that’s right for you can be challenging.
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Web Design: Top 5 Wireframing Tools
Google programmers are adding support for the Perl programming language to its App Engine service for hosting Web applications, but so far it’s not really an official project.
The work is the project of Google employee Brad Fitzpatrick, who disclosed the project on his blog Tuesday. But he’s not a member of the App Engine team, and Google isn’t promising Perl support, he said. By going public with the project, he hopes to intercept other Perl fans’ work in the area.
“I (along with other Perl hackers here at Google) are now allowed to work on this 20 percent project of ours out in the open where other Perl hackers can help us out, should you be so inclined,” Fitzpatrick said. (Google permits engineers to spend 20 percent of their work time on pet projects.)
“Here at Google… it’s not one of our big languages so I don’t get to write as much Perl as I used to. I’d still like to run my personal Web apps on App Engine, though, and I’d like to write them in Perl,” he said.
Google plans to add new languages to App Engine, but hasn’t yet said which. Perl ranks fourth on the list of desired App Engine languages, after Java, PHP, and Ruby.
Check Fitzpatrick’s post for details on the roadmap and what he thinks is necessary to make Perl a full-fledged part of App Engine.
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Google App Engine sort of getting Perl support
While the death of print news was predicted awhile ago, the reality is that it’s suffering a long, slow, painful and tedious spiral into oblivion. However, within that spiral there is a lot of analysis. And it’s a lot more than just rearranging deck chairs on the Titantic. It’s about insight into the changing face of news in a digital era.
In its State of the News Media 2008: An Annual Report on American Journalism released by the Pew Research Centers Project for Excellence in Journalism, more than 250 newspapers participated in the examination of the changing nature of the resources in American newspaper newsrooms at a critical and pivotal time.
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Report: The Changing Face of News in a Digital Era
Before you head down the path of implementing your own social media marketing strategy, there are numerous items to consider. Here is a list of things to check off your list as you move forward:
Demographics/Audience - who would you benefit from networking with? Industry veterans, customers, consumers? The better you understand who […]
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Social Strategies - Before you begin?
We told you at the beginning of April of the upcoming release of Andrew Connell’s book on SharePoint. Well we finally found it available at almost all book retailers.
Called Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007, the 456 page book published by John Wiley and Sons is the only book known to cover the Web Content Management aspects of SharePoint in detail.
Andrew is a big proponent of SharePoint’s ability to create highly engaging web content management sites and this book is his attempt to sell us all on it’s potential.
Chapters in the book cover everything from master pages and page layouts, to content types, navigation, accessibility, workflow, content deployment and a lot more.
Oddly enough, the book comes at a time when we hear more about SharePoint’s collaboration capabilities than it’s content management. It seems like lately we don’t talk too much about what SharePoint can do from a web content management standpoint. Now that’s either because we’ve finally all settled on the fact that it isn’t quite there yet, or we are just way too caught up in this whole social computing discussion where Microsoft seems determined that SharePoint is a leader.
In either case, this is a book I would personally like to read, especially considering it’s coming from someone who has dedicated his career to learning and understanding how SharePoint works from a web content management perspective.
If a book isn’t enough for you, Andrew is set to teach some WCM courses — both online and in person over the next couple of months on SharePoint and Web Content Management.
Released: Building Publishing Sites SharePoint 2007
