The New York School of Visual Arts has announced an Interaction Design course commencing next year. While the program itself sounds all encompassing, of real interest to me though are some of the staff being considered to make up the Interaction Design faculty, which reads more like the web design A-list than anything else. While the curricula sounds solid enough, the potential faculty is the bigger news: "A portion of ... Read full entry

Webmonkey is back! This used to be one of my first reference points when I was learning about web design back in the day. It was here I learnt about using CSS for layout (in 1998), and a bunch of what were then very cool Dynamic HTML (DHTML) gimmicks. Webmonkey has been around the houses a little since I was using the site in the late 1990s, and ... Read full entry

Google could be superseded, says web inventor Tim Berners-Lee talks about the rise of the Semantic web and the next phase of the web's development, which apparently doesn't leave much room for current search engine technology. "Using the semantic web, you can build applications that are much more powerful than anything on the regular web," Mr Berners-Lee said. "Imagine if two completely separate things - your bank statements and your calendar ... Read full entry

Where Keyboard Shortcuts Win. For the point and click generation of software developers. Just when should keyboard shortcuts be included as a feature of an application? For very common tasks, such as opening and closing files, and/or for tasks performed less frequently, though several times when they are? When you're doing the same thing over and over - not even necessarily right after each other (e.g. Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste…) but ... Read full entry

Visual Studio 2008 Review. A review by Ian Muir at the SitePoint blogs. Overall, it's a solid improvement over 2005. The guys at Microsoft have made some good changes that actually improved the development experience rather than just adding a bunch of fluff. Unlike 2005, you're not required to upgrade to the newest framework to use it, so you don't have to upgrade to .NET 3.5 just yet. The ... Read full entry