Some apps really stand out for their usefulness; others are not as helpful and robust. Despite this, I'm really glad to see Adobe stake a claim in the tablet market for creative professional apps.

2011-Dec-22 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Creative Culture | Graphic Design | Illustration | Photoshop | Reviews | TOP STORIES | Web Design

The Book of Ruby is a good primer on Ruby for the average beginner but there are some things that keep it from really standing out against all the other Ruby books on the market.

2011-Dec-10 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | TOP STORIES | Web Design

I give kudos to Miran for making what could have been an opaque and difficult subject actually quite interesting and fun.

2011-Dec-10 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | TOP STORIES | Web Design

Compared to the first day's MAX keynote, the second day's keynote was much more focused on hard-core development.

2011-Oct-11 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Graphic Design | News | Photoshop | TOP STORIES | Web Design

TypeKit, WoodWing and Nitobi customers are all affected by Adobe's announcements today.

2011-Oct-03 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Creative Culture | Graphic Design | News | TOP STORIES | Typography | Web Design

After all these announcements, I wasn't sure if life will be easier or harder now for the traditional creative professional.

2011-Oct-03 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Creative Culture | Graphic Design | Illustration | News | Photoshop | TOP STORIES | Web Design

There are entire sections of the CSS3 spec that I never really appreciated until I read this book.

2011-Jul-10 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | TOP STORIES | Web Design

If you want to grasp all the basic concepts behind JavaScript and write more eloquent code, try Eloquent JavaScript.

2011-Jul-10 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | Web Design

How much data is floating around on the Internet for you to use in your applications?

2011-Jun-22 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | TOP STORIES | Web Design

A book like Canvas Pocket Reference is important for all web designers to have on their shelf

2011-Jun-22 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | Web Design

Adobe has thrown a lot of changes at us today—a significant update to the Creative Suite, an SDK, new applications, a discontinuation and a major change in the way creative professionals will buy vital equipment from now on.

2011-Apr-10 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Graphic Design | News | Photoshop | TOP STORIES | Web Design

New prosumers will find the Photoshop/Premiere Elements bundle to be a great buy. The really interesting decision will be in the hands of Mac users.

2011-Apr-09 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Reviews | TOP STORIES | Web Design

Adobe announced a prerelease version of an app—codenamed Wallaby—that converts Flash (FLA) files to HTML5, CSS3 and SVG.

2011-Mar-07 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: News | TOP STORIES | Web Design

This book illuminates one of the most powerful tools the World Wide Web has given us in the last five years. I can't think of a better resource for map scripting and development than this book.

2011-Feb-20 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Cartography | Reviews | TOP STORIES | Web Design

Mining the Social Web is not like other books I've reviewed: it's more for data analysts than developers, though there is a lot of code and development going on in its pages.

2011-Feb-20 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | Web Design

Designorati romanced every free font resource, sampled every heart-shaped box of chocolatey, type treats, and arranged this bouquet of 99 ways to type "I love you."

2011-Feb-05 | Pariah S. Burke | Filed: Features | Graphic Design | Illustration | TOP STORIES | Typography | Web Design

Both books are good buys, and as with most things each one offers something a little different.

2011-Jan-17 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | Web Design

I think that compared to last year's MAX, this year touched on more platforms and runtimes.

2010-Dec-23 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: News | TOP STORIES | Web Design

Google Analytics covers pretty much everything.

2010-Nov-21 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | Web Design

It’s probably safe to say that the process of developing a website requires debugging issues that just don’t make sense. Floats don’t clear. Web fonts don’t display. Internet Explorer 6 doesn’t do anything right (at least it’s on its way out). Solutions are sometimes easy to find and apply, but many times a bug doesn’t seem to have a logical solution!

Read more on Sometimes It Takes A Detective To Solve CSS…

2010-Nov-21 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | Web Design

This product on Adobe Labs gives Illustrator CS5 some new features helpful for HTML5 developers.

2010-Sep-12 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Illustration | News | TOP STORIES | Web Design

Flash Professional CS5 is still a phenomenal application that created an entire industry, but the fragmentation of the mobile market and the expanding Flash Platform has made its future unpredictable.

2010-Jun-18 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | TOP STORIES | Web Design

Now that I've worked with Dreamweaver CS5 for months, I've concluded that its new features really bring a new focus to the application.

2010-Jun-18 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | Web Design

The Dreamweaver team has once again focused its efforts on CSS and live/dynamic webpage handling, making Dreamweaver CS5 very similar to Dreamweaver CS4 but a lot more useful for designers handling CSS and dynamic systems.

2010-Apr-11 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: News | TOP STORIES | Web Design

The three-disk For A Beautiful Web DVD series is a very nice resource for web designers, with roughly two hours per disk on three important topics: CSS, microformats and web accessibility.

2010-Mar-31 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Reviews | TOP STORIES | Web Design