Got Wills

Wave applicaton

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait for Google Wave to go public… I just hope I get an invite in the first wave, but I didn’t hear about it until just a short time ago. Google is supposed to open it to the public (limited invites, though) a week from tomorrow.

Open-sourcing it and allowing federation will be what makes it big… Honestly, how long do you think it will be before Microsoft takes it and tries to one-up Google? I was wondering how it was going to work with Internet Explorer, as IE doesn’t support HTML 5, but it seems Google has built a Chrome Frame plugin for IE.

I first read about this on Erictric, who argues that Wave is starting to fizzle even before it’s open to the public. I must say, I disagree. I think, come next week, it’s going to be all over the blogosphere and twitter… and then, yea, wave.

Well, I just finished redesigning and updating Holbrook Youth Football’s Web site. It took a little longer than I thought it would, but I think it looks 100 times better.

All of the image editing was done in GIMP and I used JetBrains’ new Web IDE to develop the whole site. It worked great, my only annoyance was that it creates xhtml files with .xhtml as the extension. Testing it in Internet Explorer with that extension got me a download, rather than a rendered page. It was probably a problem with IE (and may only be because I was accessing local files), but with most of today’s users still using IE, I need it to work.

I’ll be taking over the development of Northeastern Arizona Youth Football League’s Web site, as well. I’ll probably start the redesign on it in a few days. As of right now, it doesn’t even come up in Google when you search for the name of the organization… I’ll have to try to remedy that.

Let me know what you think and a big thanks to all of the sponsors and volunteers for helping Holbrook’s youth.