Mashup Guide

Because next week is spring break at UC Berkeley, I have a bit more breathing room to work on my book. While I need to turn in the first draft of Chapter 8 (on AJAX and Javascript) next week, my current priority is to recalibrate the schedule for the book as a whole. I'm please to see that my book already shows up on the Apress site as well as on Amazon.com. It's pleasing and a bit scary at the same time as I deal with the myriad details of finishing up the writing!

For a long time, the Firebug extension would not display any CSS info. I fixed that problem last week:

• the bug
• the fix

I'm glad that Flickr has introduced Collections. (See my collections, for instance.) Pieces of the API are coming: Flickr Services: Flickr API: flickr.collections.getInfo -- but it's not all there yet. ( yws-flickr : Collections). I was hoping, however, that the collections would also be able to contain other people's pictures.

Web 2.0 & Mashups: How People can Tap into the "Grid" for Fun & Profit » SlideShare is a good short presentation on mashups.

OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas is a blog with lots of tips on how to use OpenOfficeOrg more effectively.

I'd love to take in code4lib video for the 2007 conference. Sorry I couldn't make it since I had a blast that 2006 meeting.