http://nsyght.com/rss/users/lisa Nsyght is a search engine powered by you, your bookmarks,and your friends. en-us 50 IdeaScale enables companies to build living/breathing Digg style communities. IdeaScale is based on the simple model of crowdsourcing. It begins with an idea posted to your IdeaScale community by a user. Each idea can be expanded through comments by the community. The ultimate measure of an idea is determined by a voting system. Any idea can be voted to the top or buried back down to the bottom. It combines the "wisdom of the crowds" concept with Web 2.0 models like Digg.<br />Submited by meryn 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:17 GMT http://www.ideascale.com http://www.ideascale.com Ever since Basecamp's inception, you could only post comments and attach files to messages. This means all discussions had to happen in the messages section. That was fine until you wanted to discuss a specific to-do item or a milestone. Today all that changes.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:17 GMT http://37signals.blogs.com/products/2008/09/new-in-basecamp.html http://37signals.blogs.com/products/2008/09/new-in-basecamp.html Usability testing makes use of a lot of role-playing scenarios like this one, and many findings and design recommendations result from participants’ responses to these scenarios. But an over-reliance on role playing when testing a product and making design recommendations can have major downsides and risks<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:17 GMT http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000317.php http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000317.php 28 excellent, useful cheat sheets in various file formats for Photoshop, Dreamweaver, colors, typography, and other web-design related topics all in one page with pictures of each cheat sheet.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:17 GMT http://sixrevisions.com/resources/cheat_sheets_for_web_designers http://sixrevisions.com/resources/cheat_sheets_for_web_designers This article features 20 excellent websites to help you “grok” CSS. There’s a wide range of websites included.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:17 GMT http://sixrevisions.com/css/20_websites_learn_master_css http://sixrevisions.com/css/20_websites_learn_master_css A sense of movement is often the differentiator between Flash-heavy web sites and standards-based sites. Flash interfaces have always seemed more alive—responding to the user's interactions in a dynamic way that standards-based web sites haven't been able to replicate. Lately that's been changing, of course, with a resurgence in dynamic interface effects, helped along by JavaScript libraries that make it easy—libraries such as Prototype, Scriptaculous, Moo, YUI, MochiKit (and I could go on). It's high time to revisit the CSS Sprites technique from four years ago, and see if we can't interject a little bit of movement of our own.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:17 GMT http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites2 http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites2 While trying to pick a consulting company to work with, people occasionally ask us about the differences between PHP and Ruby on Rails. Here are my thoughts on the matter. Please feel free to add to this list in the comments.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:17 GMT http://b.lesseverything.com/2008/8/25/comparing-php-to-ruby-on-rails http://b.lesseverything.com/2008/8/25/comparing-php-to-ruby-on-rails Social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia is going open source, announcing plans to allow anyone to download their code and run their own version of the service<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:17 GMT http://mashable.com/2008/08/22/magnolia-open-source http://mashable.com/2008/08/22/magnolia-open-source # Getting Real is about skipping all the stuff that represents real (charts, graphs, boxes, arrows, schematics, wireframes, etc.) and actually building the real thing. # Getting real is less. Less mass, less software, less features, less paperwork, less of everything that's not essential (and most of what you think is essential actually isn't). # Getting Real is staying small and being agile. <br />Submited by aaronbassett 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:17 GMT http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php Adobe AIR - a cross-platform runtime environment for rich-internet and desktop applications - is just starting to get popular outside of the early-adopter<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:17 GMT http://sixrevisions.com/tools/adobe_air_apps_web_designers http://sixrevisions.com/tools/adobe_air_apps_web_designers GroupTweet allows Malcolm and the gang to send messages via Twitter that are instantly broadcasted privately to only the team members.<br />Submited by nbr 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://grouptweet.com http://grouptweet.com Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG),<br />Submited by Rob 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/wireframes http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/wireframes BuddyPress will transform a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform. BuddyPress is a set of WordPress MU specific plugins, each plugin adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you’d expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://buddypress.org http://buddypress.org all of the slides and video of the presentations at Google I/O are now available to watch and read<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://sites.google.com/site/io http://sites.google.com/site/io Designing an HTML email that renders consistently across the major email clients can be very time consuming. Support for even simple CSS varies considerably between clients, and even different versions of the same client. CampaignMonitor has put together this CSS support in email clients guide to save you the time and trouble of figuring it out for yourself. With 21 different sets of results, all the major email systems are covered, both desktop applications and webmail. It comes with the PDF and Excel version for download.<br />Submited by Rob 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css But in most cases, it is what we bring to our jobs, our home lives, our social lives – or, more to the point, what we don’t bring – that leaves us feeling, well… disposable. And if you’re going to turn that around, you’re going to have to start by making some real changes in your life and in yourself.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://www.lifehack.org/articles/management/how-to-make-yourself-indispensable.html http://www.lifehack.org/articles/management/how-to-make-yourself-indispensable.html Using our Ecommerce Theme and the free WordPress software, you can create and manage your own ecommerce store and sell your products.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://ecommercethemes.com http://ecommercethemes.com Magento is the open-source eCommerce solution that promises to revolutionize the industry. It's modular architecture and unprecedented flexibility means your business is no longer constrained by your eCommerce platform. Magento is total control.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/296/lazzymonks-wordpress-integration http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/296/lazzymonks-wordpress-integration Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson, two former Best Buy employees who changed the way the company works talk to TIME's Lisa Takeuchi Cullen on the book detailing their experiment<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1810690,00.html http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1810690,00.html About a year ago, I compiled a huge list of artistic sites. It seems like the trend has carried on in 2008 and is growing stronger (thank God the glossy style is gone). So what’s hot now? Pencil sketches, handwritten notes, card stocks, watercolor effects, collage art, script fonts, grungy and splatter ink backgrounds (glossy gradients are not "in" this year). Another trend to be on the lookout for are the vintage and retro styles which I’ve posted earlier this year. Here is a list of 82 sites picked from Best Web Gallery that show the current design trends.<br />Submited by yatot 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/2008-design-trends http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/2008-design-trends Bookmarklets are bookmarks containing snippets of JavaScript code. They can be used to accomplish specific tasks. Web developers can quicken several common operations by using bookmarklets. Best of all, bookmarklets do not slow down your web browser like extensions do. For example, some of these bookmarklets together can effectively substitute the Web Developer Firefox addon (if you crave for them in other browsers).<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://www.techzilo.com/bookmarklets-web-designers-developers http://www.techzilo.com/bookmarklets-web-designers-developers Live search? C’mon guys, this has been done plenty of times before, you say. Yes, it has but I promise you we’ve added a bit of a twist to it.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://orderedlist.com/articles/live-search-with-quicksilver-style http://orderedlist.com/articles/live-search-with-quicksilver-style Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/09/12/web-strategy-advanced-applying-a-social-computing-strategy-to-the-entire-product-lifecycle http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/09/12/web-strategy-advanced-applying-a-social-computing-strategy-to-the-entire-product-lifecycle This is an experimental service provided by the Adaptive Technology Resource Center (ATRC) at the University Of Toronto. It is a model system that demonstrates how web pages can be checked for accessibility problems.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://checker.atrc.utoronto.ca/index.html http://checker.atrc.utoronto.ca/index.html Quicksilver is, on the surface, an application and file launcher. Should you choose to dig a little deeper you will quickly find it is significantly more than just a launcher. The videos and articles below should help you extend and use Quicksilver on deeper level that will increase productivity and make your OS X experience even more enjoyable.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://theappleblog.com/quicksilver-the-guide http://theappleblog.com/quicksilver-the-guide Consider this: You own a small web design and development shop. Maybe it’s just you and a couple of other people. Because of your size, you rely heavily on outside subcontractors. Subcontractors allow you to take on more projects, make more money, and scale your business carefully. Managing even a few contracted workers is challenging. At some point, you will hit a rough patch where subcontractors don’t deliver on time, don’t meet your quality standards, or—at worst—disappear and never complete the job. Proper vetting, solid references, and hands-on management can help. Technology can promote teamwork and keep projects in check. Enter Subversion.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://www.alistapart.com/articles/collaboratewithsubversion http://www.alistapart.com/articles/collaboratewithsubversion Stop struggling and start writing what works. Use the links below to follow the process we use to create effective web writing and content for internet marketing. You can also download our Breakthrough Web Writing e-book and join our mailing list for exclusive information and invitations.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://communemedia.com/guide http://communemedia.com/guide 23 excellent, print-ready cheat sheets for HTML/HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (including MooTools and jQuery).<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://sixrevisions.com/resources/cheat_sheets_web_developer http://sixrevisions.com/resources/cheat_sheets_web_developer OmniFocus on your iPhone or iPod touch. Synchronized with your Mac via .Mac or WebDAV. Live. Automatically. Over EDGE or WiFi. Location aware.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnifocus/iphone http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnifocus/iphone Take control of Subversion with a client application that was specifically designed for Mac users. Cornerstone integrates all of the features you need to interact with your repository and does so in an elegant and easy-to-use fashion.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://www.zennaware.com/cornerstone http://www.zennaware.com/cornerstone Newer breeds of browser such as Firefox and Safari have offered support for PNG images with full alpha channel transparency for a few years. With the use of hacks, support has been available in Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6, but the hacks are non-ideal and have been tricky to use. With IE7 winning masses of users from earlier versions over the last year, full PNG alpha-channel transparency is becoming more of a reality for day-to-day use. However, there are still numbers of IE6 users out there who we can’t leave out in the cold this Christmas, so in this article I’m going to look what we can do to support IE6 users whilst taking full advantage of transparency for the majority of a site’s visitors.<br />Submited by meryn 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://24ways.org/2007/supersleight-transparent-png-in-ie6 http://24ways.org/2007/supersleight-transparent-png-in-ie6 Most modern browsers support the :hover selector for any html element. This is cool, because it enables you to, for instance, apply a mouseover effect to table rows using only CSS. IE however, with a market share of > 90%, does not natively support :hover on elements other than links , rendering the entire :hover concept useless. Or does it?<br />Submited by millette 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/csshover.html http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/csshover.html As developers, once we start separating our code into abstract ontological typologies, we make use of the human mind’s phenomenal ability to work with types.  Our code becomes less about jump tables and registers and more about users, email messages and images.  What once was a problem of allocating resources and operations within the computer becomes an abstract, logical problem within a collection of objects.  Like children awe-struck by stories of magicians of old, speaking incantations and pressing their wishes into reality by the power of their mind alone, we become drunk with the sense of awe and possibility.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://www.htmlist.com/development/the-lazy-clever-programmer-a-compendium-of-code-reuse-and-recycling http://www.htmlist.com/development/the-lazy-clever-programmer-a-compendium-of-code-reuse-and-recycling Create professional documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in Google Docs. Get a jump start with one of hundreds of templates<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://docs.google.com/templates http://docs.google.com/templates Billing Manager is the easy way to create and manage your invoices online. From Intuit – the makers of QuickBooks, Quicken, and TurboTax.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://billingmanager.intuit.com/billing/welcome.url http://billingmanager.intuit.com/billing/welcome.url Quality 10x10 and 16x16 pixel icons and pixel fonts to designers.<br />Submited by stinie 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://www.pinvoke.com http://www.pinvoke.com omnidea Rulers allows to create on whole screen area a set of rulers, like most common graphic editors allows on their working areas only. Using the guide lines enables to measure and position objects with precision and it's incredibly useful in many fields, such as computer graphics, desktop publishing and web design. Rulers can also be used to select a screen area and take a screenshot that is automatically saved to desktop or copied to system clipboard.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://www.omnidea.it/en/software/rulers/index.html http://www.omnidea.it/en/software/rulers/index.html IE7 is a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.<br />Submited by davidar 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js Here are two design paradigms for handling large amounts of data, not to be confused (or combined) as web design meets desktop in rich Internet applications. This would seem self explanatory, except that the Seek (Search) paradigm is typically used in web sites, and the Show (View Based Lists) paradigm exists mainly in desktop applications. So the challenge arises when a RIA requires one of the Show patterns, but we only have Seek patterns documented for use on the web.<br />Submited by gahlord 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://theresaneil.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/seek-or-show-two-design-paradigms-for-lots-of-data http://theresaneil.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/seek-or-show-two-design-paradigms-for-lots-of-data Ajax, events, packaging, CSS-based querying, animations, JSON, language utilities, and a lot more. All at 24K (gzipped).<br />Submited by millette 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://www.dojotoolkit.org http://www.dojotoolkit.org The AutoComplete control features navigation of the suggestion container via up/down arrow keys and a rich event model that gives you scriptological access to all of the interaction's interesting moments. Easily configurable parameters include custom formatting of AutoComplete suggestions, query delimiters (for multiple selections per input box), configurable query delay, type-ahead, animation of the suggestion container, built-in query caching, and much more.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:16 GMT http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/autocomplete http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/autocomplete You can improve your writing (your business writing, your ad writing, your thank you notes and your essays) if you start thinking like a blogger<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:15 GMT http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/04/write-like-a-bl.html http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/04/write-like-a-bl.html The John Slatin Accessibility Fund Project is an independent volunteer collaborative effort of many individual and business accessibility experts who are generously donating time. Knowbility has volunteered hosting and management services but does not own the project.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:15 GMT http://www.knowbility.org/business/john-slatin/index.php http://www.knowbility.org/business/john-slatin/index.php Clearspace is enterprise collaboration software built from the ground up for teams, companies, and communities looking for an easy and productive way to work with each other -- without time or location limitations. Eliminate redundant conversations, meetings, emails, and ideas by opening doors to new co-workers, partners, and customers. Clearspace will change the way you work.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:15 GMT http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace It’s performance review time. You sit down at your computer, open up the form, and start rating yourself on various aspects of your job. But, suddenly, you’re blank. You can’t think of specific examples to support your claim of excellence. You rack your brain. Flip through your calendar to review past appointments and meetings. You open old files, perform a keyword search on your computer. If you had an A-List, or an accomplishment list, you wouldn’t have this problem. You would have a list of your projects and results on hand to choose from. This article will discuss why you need an A-List and how to effectively create one.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:15 GMT http://www.brazencareerist.com/2008/04/06/how-to-ace-your-performance-review http://www.brazencareerist.com/2008/04/06/how-to-ace-your-performance-review Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly. This article is a quick overview of Continuous Integration summarizing the technique and its current usage.<br />Submited by haighis 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:15 GMT http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html This blog documents the changes the FriendFeed engineering team makes to the FriendFeed source code. It may not be interesting to you if you aren't an engineer. Heck, it may not be interesting to anybody. We put it here because we are trying to run our company a little differently — with more transparency and more accountability to our users. Plus, now you can watch Paul break and fix the site in virtually real-time. Sweet. We've edited out changesets about future/secret releases, changesets that looked too boring ("merge branch"), and changesets that have too many cuss words in the description (yes, we had you in mind with that rule, Bret).<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:15 GMT http://changelog.friendfeed.com http://changelog.friendfeed.com Keeping a database of bugs is one of the hallmarks of a good software team. I never cease to be amazed at how few teams are actually doing this. One of the biggest incorrect facts that programmers consistently seem to believe is that they can remember all their bugs or keep them on post-it notes.<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:15 GMT http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000029.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000029.html So I've come up with my own, highly irresponsible, sloppy test to rate the quality of a software team<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:15 GMT http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html In attempting to identify type, our sensitivity to type — and our ability to see what distinguishes one typeface from another — is heightened; it’s akin to cultivating a nose for wine. via ILoveTypography<br />Submited by Lisa 30, September 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:13:15 GMT http://ajax.sayitaintslow.com/fontgame http://ajax.sayitaintslow.com/fontgame