How many times have you been warned to be careful what you put online about yourself because future employers will find all your embarrassing pictures from Las Vegas in a Google search?
It's a caveat worth considering, but it lays out only half the story, as my friend Katherine Simmons pointed out to me recently.
"Fedena is an open source school/campus management system developed by people like you! It is a one stop solution for all school management related issues and helps you manage student databases and all other activities online.
Fedena is the ideal solution for schools and universities that want an easy means to manage all campus records. If you are a school/campus administrator, contact them and they will set up a free account for your institution. Fedena is an open source software, which means that you don’t have to pay anything to use the basic system.
Requirements: Ruby on Rails
Demo: http://www.fedena.com/tour.html
License: Apache License
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What are the current Web Directions? John Allsopp is back, with results from his latest State of Web Development 2010 survey.
There is a ton of content here, and the data is made available. For the full report you can grab the PDF.
Fancy some crib notes? Here are some of the highlights from the report:
- Few respondents use any form of Internet Explorer for their day to day web use, but IE8 is the num ber one browser devel op ers test their sites in.
- Google Chrome has jumped dramatically as the browser of choice for devel op ers, to rank 3rd, at 17% just behind Safari at 20%.
- Firefox remains the number one choice by some way, but respon dents were split between 3.5 and 3.6 at the time of our survey.
- Firefox 3.6 was released only a week before the survey began.
- Over half of respondents now use Mac OS X as their primary operating system.
- Nearly a third of respondents (up from 16%) use Mobile Safari, while Android use is at around 4%.
- JQuery has become even more dominant, with nearly 80% of all respondents using the library, up from 63% last year.
- Desktop-??like application frame works, such as Cappuccino and SproutCore show little sign of wide spread adoption by developers. Perhaps the day of desktop-??like web apps is yet to come, or perhaps developers really aren’t look ing to build webapps which mimic the desktop.
When it comes to web devel op ment tech nolo gies, the big sto ries are CSS3, web fonts and HTML5.
- More respondents (45%) than not (44%) use CSS3 and experimental CSS, up dramatically from last year (only 22% then were using CSS3 and nearly 70% not)
- Last survey, only 4% were using font link ing using @font-face. This survey that’s climbed to 23%
- HTML5 is now used to some extent by around 30% of respondents, up from under 10% last survey
Interesting stuff. Do you see any other trends from the data?
Source: Ytorf
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An invention that might eliminate almost all of the wasted space in a cardboard box.
How brilliant is this? Designer Patrick Sung's Universal Packaging System is meant to precisely fit anything that needs shipping. The individual cardboard sheets are scored with a triangle pattern that can either be fitted to an oddly shaped object, or formed into a custom fitted cardboard box:
Potentially massive savings would result from all the extra shipping space saved--cutting down on how much space each package takes up, and therefore the number of gas-guzzling trucks needed during shipping.
There's just a few niggles. For one, would anyone really put up with the added hassle of folding a custom-sized box, given all the added complexity? And two, the space savings issue might be more complicated than it seems: If people pack things in oddly shaped boxes, there's every possibility that these all don't fit together well enough to actually save space. (That's why square-shaped boxes are so efficient.) But still, with a few tweaks--such as printed guidelines for easily creating boxes of different size--this could be the cleverest thing since the Puma shoebox redesign.
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