If you're anything like me, you're using a lot of icons in your web and gui interface designs. Often times you just want  to use a nice and clean monochrome icon so that it blends in nicely with your design and is not a distraction for the user when browsing your beautifully designed website or, say, an eLearning course.

Another good thing about monochrome icons is it's easier to keep a consistent look and feel if you have to grab icons from multiple sources.

I've gathered a list of my favorite monochrome icon sources and am sharing them with you here in one convenient location.

One of the banes of a web developer's existence is browser testing. Mobile browser testing is not only tedious and awkward, it presents a unique problem: access. Even though there are currently two dominant mobile platforms (iOS and Android) whose web browsers are based on Webkit, it's still nearly impossible to have all of the mobile devices your audience may be using.

So instead of calling all of your friends to look at your new website project on their phones, I bring good news. If you have Mac running OS X 10.6 or later, you can use emulation to try out a great number of variations of the two dominant platforms.

Wireframes, wireframes, wireframes... they are the foundation on which traditional website development is built. We design the underlying data architectures, build an example of what a site will look like, and that document ends up being the foundation for the design team, the development team, and the data architecture team. Wireframes are essential, core aspects to the development cycle for a new website, or are they?

If you ever find yourself looking for a way to enumerate, get, or set timezone information on a Linux installation, here is a quick rundown to get you started.

Most shells for Linux come with simple GUI interfaces to do all of that for you, but if you need to script or write an app that interfaces with that data then you'll need to know where to look. Luckily, it's pretty simple - the list of timezone regions as well as the currently set region are all in the file structure.

In early June, Fynydd was invited to speak at the 2012 Semantic Tech & Business Conference in San Francisco, California. By all accounts, Fynydd’s message was unique, informative, and overall very well received by conference attendees.

The topic “How To Build a Sematic Content Management System From Scratch” garnered much interest even before the conference began. Ron Michael Zettlemoyer, Fynydd’s Chief Innovation Officer, was the main speaker, with support from other members of Fynydd’s team. During Ron’s presentation, he outlined a case study based on a recent Fynydd client engagement. Ron walked through the successes and challenges Fynydd faced in designing and implementing a semantic prototype system for a large financial institution. The  presentation can be found here and the prototype can be found here.