Last week was spring break here at Wayne State. We had a significant drop in visitors to the main wayne.edu site. Below is the graph in green the previous week while in blue the spring break week. This seemed normal at first glance since less students were on campus to login at the library where [...]

In a surprise move yesterday Microsoft announced it has changed its position on the default rendering engine of IE8 from IE7 rendering to the bleeding edge standards mode. This is a HUGE win for web developers across the world, the average user and everyone with a disability.
Making the standards mode “standard” means the web will [...]

If you don’t already have your head around the recent articles regarding IE8 and its three rendering modes you should, it is going to be a fact of life soon.
Basically it comes down to IE rendering pages in three modes, the “old mode”, the IE7 half standards mode and IE8 full standards mode. It makes [...]

We have added a new member to our team, Chris Pelzer starts today as a full time web developer. Chris has worked in the department for two years as a web technician. During those two years he has worked on most of our high traffic applications and sites. His knowledge of the industry and optimization [...]

Yesterday I attended a seminar here at Wayne State University that was streamed from the University of Michigan. The seminar was called “Coming to Terms: Understanding Folksonomy”. Thomas Vander Wal, the speaker at the seminar, is often credited for coining the term “folksonomy”. Folksonomy is closely related to Taxonomy. According to Wikipedia taxonomy is “the [...]

With the new year comes new endeavors. 2008 has started and we are back to work, here is a few things we are bringing with us.

Welcoming Nick West to the team! Nick as worked as a student assistant for about a year and has been hired full time.
A blog dedicated to the daily work of [...]