News and Views from the Institute for End User Computing, Inc.

Unlike most recent WordPress Upgrades, version 2.9.2 didn’t take at first.

Invoking the automatic upgrade link took us to the usual upgrade page, but nothing happened after the initial upgrade message was drawn on the page.

Disabling all of our active plugins did seem to free up the Automatic Upgrade process, although one data error was reported.

It also looks like some of our old plugins stopped working after the upgrade. We will wait to see if they get upgraded in a next few weeks before permanently deleting them.

If you develop websites or would like to see what technologies go into them, Ajaxian is the site for you.

Here you can find up to the minute reports of all the major javascript based libraries and related tools that you can use to take a site to the next level. You’ll also find discussions of hot web accessibility topics like yesterday’s revelation that many screenreader users have javascript enabled — a situation not contemplated by most site designers.

You can also sign up for newsletters, grab podcasts, and find out about the latest conferences and job offers.

The site also features rich indexing by topic in the left sidebar, making it is easy to go back in time and bring yourself up to speed in any area of interest.

If you are a professional web designer, you are no doubt are already familiar with A List Apart — the site “For People Who Make Websites”.

While its homepage is rather sedate and has shown less activity of late than in years past, the site’s many high quality articles have remarkable breadth and depth.

Here you will find detailed expositions of most of the web design techniques that undergird today’s state-of-the-art. Alongside such technical content, you will also find discussions of accessibility, information architecture, and the business side of web design and engaging designers.

In short, there is something here for everyone.

We have just upgraded our blogging software to WordPress 2.9 without incident.

Since we are working on a major look-and-feel upgrade for our site, we have installed this temporary WordPress Theme along with the update to save the time it would have taken to retrofit our old custom theme.

All of us at the IEUC wish you a safe and Happy New Year’s Eve.

We have just upgraded our blogging engine to version 2.8.5 using WordPress’ convenient automatic update facility.

In other news, we are also working on a major revision of our static pages to simplify their organization and better support a certain legacy web browser that is still used by a significant percentage of our site’s visitors who no doubt can’t upgrade due to institutional decisions outside their control.