Many of you know that I used to work as technology coordinator for Pre-College Programs at the University of Arkansas. President Bush’s new budget proposal would eliminate those programs entirely: not just at my alma mater, but at every college in the US. These programs work. They help student go to college who would otherwise [...]

A nice commentary from shepcat (a new on my reading list, for sure).

I hadn’t heard anything from evolt.org in a while. But on del.icio.us I found this article on CSS tricks. Check out the discussion as well, which contains some revisions and better options. CSS guru Tantek has written a critique that’s worth reading.

Just downloaded SharpDevelop, an open source IDE with the look and feel of Visual Studio. Also grabbed Nant, a build tool for .NET similar to Ant for Java. I’ll give a full review after I’ve had time to try them out.

It’s amazing how much time you can spend getting your favorite editor set up correctly. jEdit runs very nicely right out of the box, but there are tons plugins and other niceties that make it something close to a full-blown IDE. The best of these is ProjectViewer, which helps you organize your work (no matter [...]