Professional Consulting for the Web Industry

Yesterday, Apple unveiled the iPad to the world in San Francisco and the online ‘verse promptly went nuts with the blogging, tweeting etc. about the device and whether or not it was as cool as everyone expected or if it fell short. One of the most common things I’ve heard people saying over and over again, in many cases in a highly disparaging tone is: “Oh it’s just a big iTouch. Why would you want to use something of that size when you can just stick your iPhone or similar device in your pocket?”

I have an answer for that: many pocket devices are too small to actually provide many users with a comfortable user experience for consuming the type of media that we want to be able to consume.
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The Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce needed a quick turnaround on a social networking and information-driven site focusing on regional economic recovery for the Seattle area. Key to this project was providing a large group of users with the ability to contribute to the site without needing to register for access, while allowing Chamber staff to moderate submissions and keep tabs on what was being posted.

BK Consulting held several brief discussions with the Chamber, analyzed the pre-purchased design template and designed a solution that allowed the It’s Time For Business website to reach its intended audience very quickly and before the hard and fast deadline of noon on Friday, September 25th, 2009 for the Seattle Chamber of Commerce annual meeting and presentation of the “It’s Time For Business” campaign. From start to finish, the set up of the website and all dynamic features was completed in six days.
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In an August 28th article, eWeek covers some of the recent changes and upcoming challenges facing Google Apps including Google Docs.

One of the most exciting statements from the lead product manager for collaboration states that: “…Google wants to make sure that Apps users can not only pull into Docs and Sites any document created in Office, but that they can also push those documents from Apps back to Office, all without losing formatting fidelity.”

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Jonathan Snooks writes about how to apply and  use the MVC (Model-View-Controler) model for Javascript; to  make it easier to maintain and re-used scripts over time. The explanation of MVC is straightforward and simple and was a great refresher since I haven’t done any object-oriented coding in a while. I also appreciated the insight into applying MVC to Javascript as I step back into doing hands-on code after a 3 year absence.

A List Apart: Articles: JavaScript MVC.