Acts of Volition

For any interested web-geeks, I’ve posted a brief tutorial (a micro-tutorial, perhaps) about How to Include Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) In-line over at the silverorange labs weblog. Exciting stuff.

Over at in the silverorange Labs today, we announced our first open-source project. Swat is a web application toolkit build on PHP5. It’s not totally x-treme or all web-twenny. Rather, it’s a solid (or at least “solidifying”) toolkit containing many of the widgets we use to build web applications …

Despite the misleading title, this is not a tutorial on how to use MediaWiki to build a website. Rather, it is an observation that MediaWiki can be used to build sites that look and feel like tradition (non-Wiki) websites.  •  What the heck is a “wiki”?  •  First, some background. A wiki is a …

For years, our humble Canadian province of Prince Edward Island had a far better government website than any other I have seen. A few years ago I even posted on Slashdot about how great the site was. The site was built by my friend Peter Rukavina and his company Reinvented. Recently, though, Peter …

I’ve written a short article about how we use free and open source software at silverorange, the web development firm where I work.  •  “  •  Over the past few years at silverorange we have become more interested in and more aware of free and open source software. The interest started on the …

If you had asked me, before Firefox came along, if tabs were a good idea for a web-browser, I would have said no, absolutely not. The old Mozilla Browser had them, and Opera had them. Both were clunky and intrusive.  •  The real reason I would have thought it was a bad idea, though, is that tabs …

At the web development firm where I work, we have done work for people who have weblogs before (we’re doing some right now, actually). However, none of our core, long-term, clients have maintained weblogs. That is starting to change.  •  When you realize your professional clients read your …

Earlier this month, those of us at silverorange retreated to a beautiful cottage on the north shore of Prince Edward Island to take stock of the year past and plan for the year to come.  •  Dan James, the CEO of silverorange, has posted his keynote address from our summit. Don’t be fooled, though …

As has been publish on a zillion weblogs today, a group of the most significant search engines (Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search) and weblog tool publishers (Sixapart, Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal, etc.) have agreed to implement a new tool to prevent weblog comment spam.  •  The idea is simple …