Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Safari Books Online offers access to over 3,000 technical books, videos and tutorials from O’Reilly, Peachpit, Cisco Press, Sams, Que, and Adobe Press. Normally this service costs $22.95 per month, but you can use this great resource though the Contra Costa Library for free! All you need is a library card. If you don’t have a library card you can [...]

SitePoint.com is offering a series of courses on JavaScript, CSS, and PHP. The courses are two to three weeks in duration and use video tutorials, written tutorials, chat, and message forums to deliver the content. The JavaScript Live class just ended, but you can still take the course for $9.95 at your own pace. David H. completed the JavaScript course [...]

The last day of the regular school year is Wednesday, June 16, 2010. The summer session will begin Monday, June 21, 2010 at 8:00 a.m. The summer schedule will be Monday – Thursday from 8:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. The session will end on Thursday, August 12, 2010. There will be no school on Monday, July 5. The regular school [...]

Sorting out current unemployment benefits Source: SFGate Kathleen Pender Thursday, March 4, 2010 The jobless got a temporary reprieve Tuesday night when President Obama signed a bill that extends federal funding for unemployment benefits and Cobra health care premium subsidies for one month. Last week, the House passed a one-month extension, but the bill got held up in the Senate [...]

Welcome Isabella! Born February 10, 2010 @ 2:45 p.m. 7.9 lbs and 19″ long Mom and baby are both doing great! Congrats to the family from all of us at ROP

With hundreds of tutorials for creating portfolio layouts and mockups in Photoshop it’s hard to find tutorials that are easy for novice Photoshop users to understand and complete. We have reviewed several tutorials for creating one page portfolio layouts and I feel the following should be easy enough for the beginner to understand. These tutorials will teach you many new [...]

Students have asked that I post my Twitter updates on the blog so they’re easier to find. I’ll be posting my updates by month. This isn’t in a pretty format, but at least you can use the search on this site to find resources that I have posted to Twitter. #CSS tests and experiments http://www.brunildo.org/test/index.html 2009-12-24 19:53:21 Transparent PNG 24 [...]

Students have asked that I post my Twitter updates on the blog so they’re easier to find. I’ll be posting my updates by month. This isn’t in a pretty format, but at least you can use the search on this site to find resources that I have posted to Twitter. How to Make Beautiful Gradient Typography with #Photoshop http://bit.ly/4U2Nvm 2009-11-30 [...]

Students have asked that I post my Twitter updates on the blog so they’re easier to find. I’ll be posting my updates by month. This isn’t in a pretty format, but at least you can use the search on this site to find resources that I have posted to Twitter. #CSS Comments for Beginners http://bit.ly/3ntO91 2009-10-30 20:29:47 22 Really Useful [...]

Students have asked that I post my Twitter updates on the blog so they’re easier to find. I’ll be posting my updates by month. This isn’t in a pretty format, but at least you can use the search on this site to find resources that I have posted to Twitter. Beautiful Post Thumbnails: Top Examples & Best Practices http://bit.ly/3zYrND 2009-09-30 [...]