One of the great things about being between jobs is the sense of potential: there is a lot to discover and do and not nearly so much time when one is managing a product or a group.
I'm starting to play around with Ajax and get back some chops with CSS. I just downloaded both Jambo and Sandvox to play around with. Jambo is a social networking tool based on discovery of peers in your WiFi surroundings. Nifty if probably pointless.. Sandvox is a Mac OS X-based Web site development tool. Now, I'm a handcoding kind of guy but I figure that eventually someone has to come along with a GUI-based tool that generates decent DHTML/HTML/CSS code. Maybe this is the one.
I'm starting on building a Web site for a dear artist friend and I think that some Ajax features could be quite useful. From what I've seen so far, Ajax just seems a logical evolution of features that used to exist in IE4.0 (they may still be there, I'm not sure). Lots of potential and I have a little free time to explore and update my skill set.
Posted by artandscience at January 11, 2006 05:20 PM