Google Announces Support for Microformats and RDFa

im posting this so that i can have it for later use on the topic. apparently this will greatly improve the semantic web of data we have at our hands, and make searching and indexing it faster/better/greater success in delivering good content that a user wants!

anything that we as web developers can do to make our sites more indexable for our client the better!

so, anyway, here is the link to the article itself Google Announces Support for Microformats and RDFa

and as the man behind the internet, himself Tim Berners-Lee stated so eloquently:

"The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. " - Tim Berners-Lee

credit for this article is due to Timothy O'Brien at O'Reilly and here is a link to Tim's blog (blog.discursive.com)



Coldfusion 8 Curriculum released by Adobe

so that i have this link, and in case anyone else doesnt get the news in the coldfusion blogosphere, here it is:

http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/teach/cfcurriculum.html

There are 10 units spanning everything from Building a search interface to Securing an application.



5 CSS3 Techniques For Major Browsers - using jQuery???

yah, great post, from a site that i found while reading some tweets this morning. thanks ray camden for the point in the direction, this is a cool little explanation of 5 different things you can do with jQuery that used to be cumbersome, if not down right impossible with plain old css.

anyhow, check this post out... cool info.



found a cool site today dopplr.com

so, i was reading ryan stewarts blog a few minutes ago, and he had a link to a site called dopplr that i found out chronicles the travels you put in there. but it doesnt just do that, it does it elegantly, with great data display and a highly intuitive UI. i just wanted to make sure i had this site someday in the future for my wife and i

from the dopplr.com site:

Welcome to Dopplr, an online service for smarter travel. Take the Dopplr tour, sign up now, or visit the city page for Paris.



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