The Beginner's Mind
Happy December! It’s officially the time of office holiday parties, family get-togethers, wassailing, and drinking eggnog as chestnuts roast over the duraflame embers. For those of us who work with technology, it’s also the time of year when we’re excited to get
For many of us, there’s a tremendous amount of pressure to keep up with an increasing pace of change and to learn new skills more quickly and to absorb more information. This is all very new. Our brains aren’t used
Eva and I are hard at work on a new book for Wiley Publishing, titled Coding JavaScript For Dummies. The book is scheduled to be released in spring 2015 and we have more than 25% of it written now. In
Recently, we spent a week working out of Famo.us Labs in San Francisco. While there, we learned Famo.us, met the team (they are the friendliest startup ever), and Chris started building WPFamous. WPFamous uses the Famo.us 3D rendering engine to
On October 22, Watzthis?, along with our pals at Curious Entity, will be holding the very first Sacramento Famo.us meetup! Come and learn about Famo.us, see amazing demos, win prizes (Famo.us has given us a pile of shirts and stickers
A couple weeks ago, Google started rolling out an update to how they rank websites. Google does these updates fairly regularly, in order to improve their search results and catch more bad guys. Major updates to how Google ranks sites
Netcraft estimate that there are 644 million active websites on the Internet today. The good news is: yours may be one of them. The bad news is: yours is just one of them. In our online class, Achieving Top Search Engine Positions,
I’ve been doing this Internet thing for 25 years, the world wide web thing for 20 years, and running a business doing it all for 18 years. I’ve learned a thing or two. No, I’ve learned all of it. I’m really lucky
According to Amazon, there are only 32,283 authors who are more popular than me (on Amazon) today. Updated hourly, this number has fluctuated in the range of 20,000 to 40,000 over the last few months. With somewhere around 5 million titles
If you thought your mobile web site, or acquiring mobile web skills, wasn’t that urgent of a priority way back in October 2013, chances are that you need to look again.