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• New York, Toronto, Minneapolis, Chicago + Pranks
  (tags: onairbustour newyork chicago max minneapolis toronto prank leebrimelow)

I’m back on the  On AIR bus to complete this epic journey of geekery, bus riding, coding, chatting and fast food endurance! So my blogging has been a bit sparse.  We’ve already presented at the events in New York, Toronto and Minneapolis.  The attendance has been outstanding and the venues have been kick ass. 

You can tell we’re getting to the end of the tour as the pranks have been rolling. Check out the picture we inserted into Lee’s presentation in toronto, better than rotten tomatoes!

Technorati Tags: onairbustour, newyork, chicago, max, minneapolis, toronto, prank, leebrimelow

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• Bug Fix Bingo.
  Print this and pin it on the walls in your dev teams office! hilarious!
  (tags: bug bugfixbingo bingo qa testing softwareengineering development humor funny)

• Nitobi Hack Day Numero Uno!
  (tags: hackday nitobi ajax ria hack opensource)
• Facebook announces incentive fund for application developers | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
  10 million fund for building facebook apps. 25K-250K per project. the only condition is it has to be only for facebook and the company/individual cannot have accepted formal venture funding. backed by FB and some of their VC investors. very smart move I
  (tags: facebook social web2.0 venture vc fund development platform ecosystem community fbfund)
• » Rich Internet application job trends and salaries | The Universal Desktop | ZDNet.com
  Ryan pulled together a bunch of charts from Indeed.com showing relative demand and salaires for a range of different types of RIA developers. Primarily divided between Ajax, Flex, Flash, WPF, Silverlight, Open Laszlo and JavaFX.
  (tags: adoption ajax career flash flex job jobs trends salary ria silverlight web2.0 microsoft adobe)
• David Crow: Upcoming Canadian UX Events
  3 kick ass UX events in Canada. I made it to the first one with Andrew Crow from AP, it was _awesome_. I’m hoping Alexei can hit the Adaptive Path workshop and I’ll probably tackle CanadaUX and the rockies! Sorry Tdot event:( Oh Canada!
  (tags: ux ui usability design presentation event canada vancouver adaptivepath training learning course)
• CanUX 2007 » Home
  the annual Canadian User Experience Workshop. Presented by nForm User Experience at the world-renowned Banff Centre, CanUX brings together industry leaders, hands-on activities, and working design and technology professionals.
  (tags: design conference banff canada ia ux usability)

Dave’s just thrown down the details for the very first Nitobi Hack Day! 

When: Oct 20th 2007, Doors open at 9am – presentations in the evening
Where: Nitobi HQ, 300-247 Abbott St., Vancouver, BC
What: Bring your laptop and code up something cool!

Here’s what Dave has to say about it:

It will be open to pretty much anyone that wants to come and we will likely have it on an upcoming saturday. Nitobi will supply the hacking essentials like caffeine and pizza (maybe even some beer . The one stipulation is of course that everyone, either in a small group or alone, builds something cool and presents it to the rest of us (true to the spirit of the hack day). This something cool could be in the RIA space (Ajax, Flash, AIR, JavaFX, etc) but it could also be hardware or otherwise.

Get ready to hack!  Please RSVP on Upcoming if you can.

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• Xinu – Check quickly your PageRank, backlinks and much more
  great little tool for checking a whole bunch of indicators for your website including Google PageRank, Alexa, links, keywords and accessibility.
  (tags: seo tools pagerank analysis ranking website tool web google dashboard alexa)

• Unlock the iPhone – a simple tutorial!
  How to unlock your iphone for free. Super easy too! Well it could get easier:)
  (tags: apple hack iphone learning article sim unlock iphonesimfree tutorial hardware mac howto free)
• IEWatch: HTTP and HTTPS protocol viewer and HTML Analyzer software tool
  Firebug for IE…basically, but not free. “IEWatch is a plug-in for Microsoft Internet Explorer that helps you achieve your web development and web analysis tasks more efficiently. “
  (tags: ajax browser debugging design development html ie javascript webdev software http tool firebug)

• WTF – CF Developer’s Journal to Relaunch as Silverlight Developer’s Journal??
  (tags: cf coldfusion media fud ajax silverlight syscon)
• Should Apple Burn Its Economics Textbooks? – Freakonomics – Opinion – New York Times Blog
  Interesting article. This is why economists shouldn’t run businesses:)
  (tags: apple behavior iphone marketing mobile phone strategy technology economics consumer)
• AboutNico » Google Analytics AIR beta sign up
  Neat AIR for viewing google analytics data. Not sure what new functionality it adds. But I’m also interested in the fidelity it gives you into the analytics, I’d like to mash that data up with info in RobotReplay.
  (tags: adobe air analytics google ria web flex)
• Google’s Search Pages Could Include Richer Ads
  Looks like Google’s going to be adding video and rich media ads to their mix. Very interesting times. I’m sure we’ll see lots different formats and delivery mechanisms pop out in the next little. Or is this a return to hideous banner ads?
  (tags: google flash media video ad googleads advertising internet)
• Protoscript – Home
  Bill Scott brings us:Protoscript is a simplified scripting language for creating Ajax style prototypes for the Web. With Protoscript it’s easy to bring interface elements to life. Simply connect them to behaviors and events to create complex interactions.
  (tags: ajax code css design download framework free html prototype javascript programming tool ui ria)

Sys-con is ditching their ColdFusion Developer’s Journal and starting Silverlight Journal, fair enough. But what does that blog title even mean? Relaunch? ColdFusion and Silverlight are not alternatives, competitors or really have that much to do with each other. I’m pretty sure you could actually use them together. This is total _FUD_ and BS.

We have seen a rapid trend and move from ColdFusion to other emerging rich web technologies such as AJAX, Flex, and Silverlight,” said Engin Sezici of SYS-CON Media.

What’s Engin smoking?? It’s absolutely impossible to migrate from ColdFusion to Ajax…you can add Ajax to a ColdFusion site you need something on the server side. Saying you’ve seen a move from ColdFusion to PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails or some other server side language would make sense. I started wondering maybe Microsoft paid Sys-Con to start this new hype filled magazine…oh wait what’s this:

After ColdFusion became part of the Adobe product line Adobe recently decided to discontinue its support of the magazine.

The plot thickens…I hate it when the media does crap like this. Sys-Con just lost some of my respect. You can read CF guru Ben Forta’s thoughts here.

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• on AIR Weblog – Building a Mac Doc style widget
  Andre Charland was feeling a little bit of Mac-envy while on the bus tour so he deiced to take his Ajax skills and Adobe AIR and do something about it. The result was a Mac dock that uses Nitobi’s Fish Eye Component.
  (tags: air ajax dock nitobi fisheye ui)
• MIT IS&T: Usability Guidelines
  Great checklist to use when doing a quick and dirty usability of your website or web app. Someone should make this into a publicly available google spreadsheet.
  (tags: accessibility development usability guidelines reference checklist webdesign heuristic)