My Little Corner of the Web

The Moleskin is the personal web site of Kelsey Ruger and is a collection of creative work, thoughts and lessons.

Archive for the 'Web Profession' Category

5 Sins of the Career Web Professional

You know it’s great getting to know new people because they can 1) Make you remember something that you should never have forgotten 2) Get you to think about things in a new way. Yesterday Bryan Veloso posted his latest Live from the 101 podcast that focused on the urge many people feel to try […]

SXSW Bound

I’ll be heading to Austin tomorrow afternoon. While I am looking forward to the sessions the real fun will be at the evening get togethers and parties. If you are attending one of these events - I’ll see you there…and yes I know that’s a lot for the 11th.

Mar 10 - Break Bread with […]

Apple’s Ruby on Rails Tutorial

Ruby on Rails has really taken off in the last year. Apple has just taken some time to put together a tutorial on buidling Rails apps on OSX. The Rails portions of the tutorial will work on any OS and features some best practices like using migrations instead of raw SQL code to create your […]

Access U Training Schedule

We are heading into Access U season again and boy am I going to be busy. Here are courses I will be teaching in Texas and California this year:
Access U California April 6-7
Accessibility 101 (with Rhodes Gibson)
This is the first of a two-part introduction to accessibility issues and techniques for creating accessible web sites. […]

Google Acquires Measure Map

Nick Finck has reported at Digital Web that Google has completed the acquisition of Measure Map, an analytics tool for blogs created by Adaptive Path. Measure Map joins Google Analytics (formerly Urchin) in Google’s analytic software toolbox and will no doubt become a part of Blogger. Having used Measure Map on The Moleskin for […]