Blog entries tagged web browsers

Certificate in Open Source Web Development, featuring Joomla

Jen Kramer — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

The Marlboro College Graduate Center in Brattleboro, Vermont, just released its Open Source Web Development certificate in a wholly online format.

If you've been working with Joomla, but you want to know a lot more about it, this is the certificate program for you. The certificate introduces students to Joomla, as well as planning a website, understanding the code that runs it, and developing and executing an online marketing plan.

The certificate consists of 12 credits:

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My Google Chrome rant encapsulated

Jen Kramer — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0100

The first pane of the first page of the comic book on Google Chrome says this:

"Today, most of what we use the web for on a day-to-day basis aren't just web pages, they're applications."

Ok, pop quiz: How many people's favorite non-technical friend has any clue what a web application (or any kind of computer application) is? What is a definition?

Thought so. Certainly not my mom (a smart lady to boot), certainly not a pile of my clients.

Talk to your users, G...

New browser: Google Chrome

Jen Kramer — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0100

Yesterday, Google announced it was releasing its own open-source web browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Microsoft, called Google Chrome. The big links include:

The main Google Chrome web page (link not working as of this writing)A comic book describing what Google is doing with this new browserScreenshots of what Chrome will look like.

My initial reaction? Why the heck would Google want to release a web browser? If they want to support an open source web brow...