Carmen Ferrara’s Weblog 2.0

Great post over at the “Creating Passionate Users” blog on creating graphics for your blog, book, or presentation. Incorporating graphics into a presentation can really help enforce the message you are trying to convey. However, creating graphics for the non-artistically inclined can be challenging. Kathy offers some great resources, tools, and tips for those of us that are not Photoshop gurus.

At the heart of Presio are narrated slides, which can come from a variety of sources including imported graphics. Moving beyond just PowerPoint bullet points and sprinkling some creative graphics can really add to a web presentation.

When I started out with Rails, I was using Notepad++ and it served my needs fine. Recently, I made the switch to the excellent RadRails IDE. I’m still learning my way around this Eclipse based tool, but overall I’m very impressed. I just discovered another excellent Ruby on Rails blog - Dr Nic. In his latest post, he has put together a config file for using “snippets” within RadRails. I’ve read lots of praise for the defacto RoR editor on the Mac, TextMate, and one of its best features is snippets. Well, now RoR developers on Windows have snippets too. Great stuff!