If your facebook and twitter feed is anything like mine, you've run across "RSAnimate" videos more than once over the past few months.

Taken from lectures given at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (let's stick with "RSA" for short!), our ears hear the standard lecture that we would get if we were in the room with the presenter, but our eyes are afforded a wonderful gift: sequential and overlapping illustrations of the topic at hand, synced up with the speech. more

The time has come, I'm buying an iPad. I am writing to tell the world of my transition in thought, from Luddite to Early Adopter.

I am perhaps the last person who owns a dumbphone. Yes, I have reveled in my un-wired-ness. I was the last person I know to get a cellular phone. In college, I developed for a Java class on a computer without internet. I have not owned a TV since I threw mine over the balcony in a symbolic (drunken) ritual at age nineteen. (We had to throw it off several times until we were satisfied.) more

I don't consider myself an early adopter, but this is likely just a result of denial as I upgraded to the iPhone 3gs the week it came out, and purchased an iPad on the first day it was possible to do so. I love gadgets more than my bank account can handle. Though in my defense, I haven't gotten the new iPhone yet. I was considering buying a Kindle right around the time when Steve Jobs announced the iPad, and figured if I was going to get an e-reader, I may as well get one that has a whole bunch of other bells and whistles. more

iHobo: bad taste, yes. You can read more here.

But I'm inclined to think that bad taste is better than no taste at all. more

I've just released version 2.3 of the Sites module, which has been quietly under off-and-on development for a couple of months now here at EchoDitto Labs. Sites was originally conceived as a way to make it easy to create multi-site Drupal configurations without the problems and complexities incurred by using Domain Access. more

Time for part two of my series on iPhone development basics (you can find part one on the EchoDitto Labs blog). Last time, I gave some tips on writing settings to a binary file using Apple's Foundation Library. This time I'll show you how to retrieve those settings -- either from a cached version of the property list or from the filesystem itself. As with the first article, let's dive in head first with some code. more

The news about Apple's new tablet, the iPad, is only just minutes old at this point, and yet I feel compelled to write this blog post. Let me first be clear that I am (hopefully obviously) a big fan of new and exciting technology. I have an iPhone and love it, and I'm looking forward to trying out the ...iPad (it hurts me to even type the name). more

I've always been an advocate for making New Years Resolutions - I'm just not usually the type to actually keep them. This year, I have a few resolutions: quit smoking (which I've been trying to do for over a year now), work-out more (once I fix my injured shoulder), and get more cool stuff done at work. I find it incredibly frustrating that there is so much I want to do, but it feels like there's never enough time to do it all.

So, regarding resolution #3, I've become obsessed with not letting anything get lost in the shuffle. For me, it has become a three-step process: more

To celebrate 2009 drawing to a close, the EchoDitto team huddled 'round the fire and reminisced about the most memorable campaigns we've seen this year. more