Monthly Archives: March 2010

HTML5, CSS3, and Chris Mills

robinna/ March 20, 2010/ Design/ 0 comments

Yesterday I was super fortunate to get to hear Chris Mills of Opera talk about HTML5 and CSS3 (which totally made up for that fact that I couldn’t go to NISO — one day….). He really focused on crossbrowser compatibility and standards (excluding IE, which we all know never seems to play by the rules much to the bane of

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Drupal Basics for Libraries

robinna/ March 15, 2010/ Design, my projects/ 1 comments

I had a great time teaching my Drupal Basics for Libraries class for Lyrasis. It includes a good grounding in CMS basics, including how those differ from what many of us think of as traditional web design. Anyhow, the class will be repeated in June, so, just keep an eye out. This is not content that I can share, but

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graphic design / moonshine covers

robinna/ March 4, 2010/ publishing, Design, my projects, my art/ 1 comments

As I finish readying moonshine arts magazine for re-launch and migration to Drupal, I thought you might like a snapshot of the covers from the past few years: It’s kind of funny, I rarely do graphic design at work (too many fighting over such a small slice of the pie) that I think people forget I do alot of graphic

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Your private life, well, it’s not so private (higher ed, social media, and privacy)

robinna/ March 4, 2010/ social media, privacy/ 0 comments

Interesting article about faculty and social media, touching a tiny bit on online presence & digital identity ( because you know — say it with me kids — if you’re not building your digital identity, someone is building it for you…) but also further removes the illusion that faculty members — or anyone, for that matter — can maintain a

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Open Identity Exchange project

robinna/ March 3, 2010/ life 2.0+/ 1 comments

Interesting article about a potential project involving google, paypal, verizon and others. “Open Identity Exchange (OIX) is a newly founded non-profit organization, launched today at the RSA Conference 2010 by Google, PayPal, Equifax, VeriSign, Verizon, CA and Booz Allen Hamilton. The aim of this new organization is exchange of online identity credentials across public and private sectors; in other words,

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Mobile dev resources

robinna/ March 1, 2010/ Technology, Blog posts/ 0 comments

For those of you developing for mobile devices… I know, I should be… great list from a friend…————————-The Complete iPhone Development Toolboxa list of blogs,tutorials,screencastss,code snippets, and booksshttp://iphone.appstorm.net/roundups/developer/the-complete-iphone-development-toolbox/ A great list of links for creating mobile enabled sites 18 Mobile Frameworks and Development Tools for Creating iPhone Appshttp://iphoneized.com/2009/11/18-mobile-frameworks-development-tools-creating-iphone-apps/