Category: Book News

Listening to Tim O’Reilly’s keynote right now. Fascinating I’m taking notes but don’t want to dump them raw. More to come

Well, the problem with my uploads to waterside.com is due to a permissions snafu. Seems I don’t ‘own’ the directory I’m trying to upstream to. I’ll see if I can get that worked out today, but meanwhile I’ll post any conference-related observations here to RFB.

We’re kicking off our thirteenth annual publishing conference at the Radisson in the Berkeley marina today. It’s been a tough couple of years in the computer-book publishing industry, so I’m glad that so many people have decided to turn out for the event. It may be our lineup of speakers this year that are bringing…

Scot sez: Reminder for anyone hitting MacWorld SF: I’ll be delivering a segment of the two-day Dreamweaver conference: The Whole OS X Web Development System — a poor title — the session will be about setting up OS X as a PHP/MySQL web database application development platform. 2:15 Tuesday, Room 120 I sometimes forget to…

Eagle-eyed readers have notified me of a couple more files for the Chapter 6 tutorials missing from the CD-ROM included with the book. I’ve uploaded them to the Dreamweaver Savvy website. This makes three missing PNGs: photo.png flower.png makecommand.png There are also permanent links to these files in the right-hand column of the website home…

We’ve covered a pretty good range of topics in my interview in the Well’s Inkwell conference that started last week: What do web-design tools gain us and lose us? The differences between launching a site and maintaining one The role of auteurs vs. multidisciplinary teams in web development Upgrading to Dreamweaver MX Dynamic web-app development…

Today we’re starting the Inkwell interview with me about Dreamweaver Savvy and related topics. The Inkwell is a publicly-viewable conference at the Well usually featuring interviews with book authors. Besides the software addressed in my book (Dreamweaver and Fireworks), we’re planning to talk about related topics such as web design and development projects, information architecture,…

My interview on the Well is starting next Monday. In the meantime, I highly recommend the interview underway today with Howard Reingold, talking about his Smart Mobs book, at Inkwell.vue.

The Well has a public conference called Inkwell.vue featuring interviews with authors. From November 22 to December 6 they’ll be interviewing me there to talk about my Dreamweaver book (as well as web design in general, blogging, information architecture, knowledge management, and things like that). When the interview starts, I’ll post a link here. You…

Dreamweaver Extreme: Five Steps to More Professional Pages with Dreamweaver MX [Macromedia Resource Feed]

We found the source of the error(s) and so now instead of pointing to the mirror site at http://fireweaver.com/, please feel to re-commerce linking directly to http://dreamweaversavvy.com/ (or any of its variants, including http://www.dreamweaversavvy.com/ http://dreamweaverfireworkssavvy.com/ and http://www.dreamweaverfireworkssavvy.com/). Phew!

Due to some DNS misconfiguration, dreamweaversavvy.com right now points to my host’s site instead of to the correct location. To get to the website for my book Dreamweaver MX / Fireworks MX Savvy at this time, therefore, please point your browser at http://fireweaver.com instead. I am trying to determine right now whether the problem is…

Keep them reviews coming! You work long and hard on a project like my last book (and there was a big team of people working on it with me) and then it goes out the door and it all starts to seem a bit like a dream. Oddly, reviews like this remind me of what…