Most ideas are a Google search away from finding someone else who already thought of it enough to build a tool to share. At the start of the summer, I was thinking it would be great to have an interactive card sorting tool that would allow me to solicit input on grouping, prioritizing and categorization from people I would have to travel hundreds of miles to see. Thanks to a mid-summer tip from Tyler, enter OptimalSort.
Back to School
“We talk when the teachers believe we are working.”
TuningSchmuning
One of my summer goals was to get our web sites tuned up a bit, fixing the design issues that were almost corrected before my hard drive crash swallowed them whole. Helping the site analysis is YSlow, a browser plug-in for Firefox by Yahoo! that analyzes pages for speed and offers performance improvement recommendations. Checking the W3C validator, though, there’s quite a bit of coding to clean up before classes resume.