MIT Open CourseWare

I'm spreading a word about new MIT site, which features a lot of new free courses. I just checked computer science courses, and think, I might take some of them. Enjoy!

Cuzillion

As all of us know, we, developers, are fighting for the best use of internet space. We want better, faster pages with more info and functionality on them.

Not many of us knows about how to do it. Recently I discovered a new Web Performance Tool, which might be helpful for all us who works with code. I also found a good tutorial. which you can watch on YouTube and my blog. In a ddition I discovered a couple good books written by Steve Souders and will try to read them. As far as I tried, his tool does not work for IE, but it works for Firefox. He has a very interesting site, which I will go through. I promise to post my feedback about his books and site.

Rename-it

Today I had to rename a lot of files and my coworkers offered me a very nice solution. I was eager to learn something new and I did. Here's a site to download free program to rename multiple files. I hope, to download and start to plat with it. I wish myself to learn everyday I go to work. Today I accomplished my goal: I learned.

Unicode symbol map for PDFs

I'm checking new PDFs  from SRTR ADR for section 508 accessibility. My first check shows me that document has some problems with Unicode mapping. My editors don't know what to do. So, I searched Internet for the answers. Actually, I found very good site which is very helpful solving my problem.  I copied some mathematical symbols into my pdf files and it solves the problem with accessibility.  I'm not a first one, who has problem with mapping UNICODE symbols, so I offer you a real help. I hope, it will work for you.

Color contrast

Working on section 508, I've learned a lot about color contrast. First of all, there is a wonderful online tool for finding  a right colors for your template. I used old color and found out what I should do with them to improve a color contrast. To improve a color contrast, I use another good online tool. I think, any developer should know about color contrast  idea and use for site development. I hope, I found a right colors for my SRTR gov-site.

Requirement analysis

How to conduct a proper requirement analysis?..

Here are some sites with useful information for requirement analysis

1. Wikipedia
2. Tips to gather business requirements
3. Mind tools
4. Business requirements for Sharepoint projects

Tomorrow I'm beginning to gather requirements for my first Sharepoint project.

ASP.NET (ask question)

Sooner or later all of us have questions without answers. Where to find reliable answers? There are lot of ways and one of then is Forums on ASP.NET.

Spokeo.com

Here's my first blog-entry about sites we should know and use. In a future I plan to add new sites for public use.

Spokeo.com

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