I have had some fun playing with CushyCMS. Its a simple content manager tool for your site. Its free and very easy to use. I would recommend it for those simple down and dirty updates you need to make to a brochure oriented website. Sit down get comfortable and try it yourself here: http://www.cushycms.com/

I came across this article from Read Write Web and found it interesting and worth the read. Its pretty exciting to see the plans of what companies like Google are doing to make online computing more robust and accessible. Hopefully Google will get the kinks out of its issues with formatting though. It took Microsoft awhile to do that with Word and I still beat my head trying to get layout the way I want. So I will be patient. Having the abilities of Office online for free just cant be beat so keep it up Google. Take a look at the 2009 predictions here.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2009_web_predictions.php

It takes a social and economical degree to understand the electoral process. But this simple widget gives a tally to see who is actually wining the race.

270towin.com is an interactive Electoral College map for 2008 and a history of Presidential elections in the United States. Since electoral votes are generally allocated on an “all or none” basis by state, the election of a U.S President is about winning the popular vote in enough states to achieve 270 electoral votes, a majority of the 538 that are available. It is not about getting the most overall popular votes, as we saw in the 2000 election, when the electoral vote winner (Bush) and the popular vote winner (Gore) were different.

This is a great idea to get to the bottom of the what fonts are safe for using on the web. This site takes a survey of what you can see. In the end it gives the common result depending on what platform you are using. See here: www.codestyle.org

Whatever browser you choose there is a tool to help you with your coding. I like Klaus Komenda’s list to to help with sorting them out. Check it out here:

www.klauskomenda.com

Enough already. I am tired of the ranks against CF being a dieing language. I have aways believed in CF as a true rapid web application tool. This is a great article defining why you would choose CF and why its here to stay… Read here: Stop Worrying About ColdFusion Already.

So I was told to download this new html editor by a colleague and I was not disappointed. This is the best editor for free you can get. If you are are web developer then you will just absolutely love this software. Download it today:http://www.aptana.com/

This is awesome. O’Reilly has started a blog for web developers to share their views on Rich Internet Applications (RIA). I am hoping this turns into a good source for rounding up the true knowledge leaders surrounding RIA’s.

Check it out here: http://www.insideria.com/