Few people have a bad word to say about Opera. But that's possibly because so few people use the browser. Craig pinpoints some of its problems and suggests a number of ways Opera could attract a higher audience. Related posts:Can Opera Ever Become
Good old Kangax has been playing with HTML minification and has shared his new tool in an early stage. What does it do?
Kangax has forked John Resig’s HTML parser which parses the HTML and sends that into the Minifier. This has rules that do things
At an informal gathering,
my colleagues and I started talking about our experiences
being interviewed at Microsoft.
One of the people there remembered how
one of the pieces of feedback on the interview lo these many years ago
was that although my
We've just pushed live an update to the http://www.asp.net site. This is the first of a series of updates to the site we'll be making this year. The home page for the site was getting bogged down with info and was too visually busy. It was too complex
Determining a website's popularity can be beneficial when you're looking for areas of growth or sizing up the competition. Use these 10+ tools to help determine a website's popularity and figure out if your site has a Rockstar status that you can show
We are pleased to announce that a beta version of Ext JS 3.2 is now publicly available. 3.2 introduces a number of exciting new components and adds great new capabilities to your existing applications.
The role and purpose of icons is user interaction is very important these days. Icons can enhance the user experience and user friendly icons are really appreciative but they should be unique and easy to understand. There are so many icon websites
Being a freelancer means a lot of freedom to plan your own days at work, but it also does require discipline and planning. Being your own boss, you need to be good at making the right rules to succeed. Most of these tips sound just like common sense, but
Lucene is a document indexing engine, that is its sole goal, and it does so beautifully. The interesting bit about using Lucene is that it probably wouldn’t be your main data store, but it is likely to be an important piece of your architecture. The
.NET is now more than eight years old, and some of its APIs got old with more grace than others. System.IO in particular has always been a little awkward. It’s mostly static method calls (Path.*, Directory.*, etc.) and some stateful classes
Twitter background design is one of the most important things, you can change in your account to attract new followers. We only can change little things in Twitter so why we don’t put there the best we can? Let’s change our background right
In jQuery 1.3, the team introduced the live() method, which allows us to bind event handlers to elements on the page, as well as any that might be created in the future dynamically. Though not perfect, it definitely proved to be helpful. Most notably,
Previous posts in this series: A Primer Aggregate Construction One of the common themes throughout the DDD book is that much of the nuts and bolts of structural domain-driven design is just plain good use of object-oriented programming. This is
Content theft Most of the recent - what I'll call - "discussions" about content aggregators have revolved around content theft. I'm not going to flip-flop on that topic: when you use someone else's work, you ask first, and if given the okay, you
Content theft Most of the recent - what I'll call - "discussions" about content aggregators have revolved around content theft. I'm not going to flip-flop on that topic: when you use someone else's work, you ask first, and if given the okay, you
Well, it seems the last post wasn’t too controversial. Let me try something that might be a bit more controversial. Heck, it might even get some people down right agitated with me but that’s OK, disagreement is a useful tool to drive clarity
Popular guest writer Rick Robinette, has a knack for finding great free applications – applications that make your computer experience smoother, safer and more interesting. See what Rick has to say about his most recent find – Drag ‘n Crypt ULTRA.
I quite like PayPal. Through PayPal I can receive payment for my services, spend that money on the Web; transfer those funds to my bank account, and complete a host of additional financial transactions.
But (there’s always that “but”), PayPal is one
There are two ways you can go when designing a 404 page for your website - you could go the sensible route and make it usable and try to help the reader find exactly what they were looking for or, you could design a 404 page that not only defines the
Paul Irish and Jonathan Neal have created a fun example of various CSS tweaks that you can make, and see the results instantly.
CSS3, Please! lets you play with fancy new rules such as: border-radius
box shadow
gradients
rgba support in
As a follow-up to a previous post, today Alyssa shares her process for managing and organizing ideas. Related posts:How To Use Evernote To Create A Mood Board Jennifer has a look at how Evernote can help you...Swipe This! Use A Swipe File For Inspiration
I've been meaning to write up about Google Buzz for a while now, but what with one thing and another, I've not been able to get around to it. So, what do I think?
As with anything Google, the minute they announce something, it receives rave reviews
A new study released Wednesday pits Flash Player’s video performance against that of native HTML5 video playback in several different web browsers.
The verdict? Flash is a CPU hog in some cases, and native H.264 video is a CPU hog in some cases.
I was surprised to see that Wikipedia has started collecting job-interview questions that have been asked by Microsoft's interviewers during followup (second round) interviews. The questions posted so far include the following:Design a cellphone for a
A few days ago I discovered a very interesting project. Ryan Corradini has a project named Canvassa that is a HTML5/Canvas based Zelda clone. He does more or less the same thing I do with SilverTile but his approach is quite different. His blog is quite
The Professional Association for SQL Server recently sent its members a survey asking where they should hold their next summit – in Seattle again, or rotate it around the country. Initially we heard that the results wouldn’t be posted for a
Harmony is a new drawing tool, a HTML5/Canvas experiment with great potential. It provides some unique brush styles, and can produce some great-looking charcoal pencil style sketches, among other things. Better to try it out than explain it in
I love SXSW it because I always get a chance to have interesting conversations and hang out with really smart people. However, SXSW can be a little overwhelming, so I thought that I would share a few of my tips for enjoying your experience at SXSW.
There are a lot of notebook applications out there; Alyssa compiled a list of 10 for you to explore. Related posts:How To Use Evernote To Create A Mood Board Jennifer has a look at how Evernote can help you...Swipe This! Use A Swipe File For Inspiration
A quick reminder to those of you attending MountainWest RubyConf this weekend: Engine Yard will be hosting it’s third annual MountainWest RubyConf Hackfest this Thursday night! We’ll be back at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center, in the
I don't know about you, but I'm feeling the strain of the onslaught of information brought about by social media tools. Even though I'm sure I qualify as an information junkie, I feel that I've surpassed the limits of the amount of information I can
Posted by Brad Smith Senior Vice President and General Counsel We recently reached out to the people of the Puget Sound area to help advance a critical local and state issue: the timely replacement and expansion of the SR-520 bridge across Lake
Since its emergence, the digital photography market has gradually supplanted the traditional one. APN and digital SLR cameras entered our lives, and some people announced the death of silver-based images. This is not all lie, and yet
Any freelancer would know that the art of building a client base can be very tricky. It is a skill that takes a while to master. Over the years, I've learned a thing or two about building up your clientele…
I’m not very enthusiastic about Microsoft, mostly because they have been a copy cat for decades. But before Microsoft started with Windows, they’ve produced programming languages and were respected by many. I came into contact with Microsoft
I set out to write an article about the unique features of XNA Game Studio on Windows Phone 7 Series, but while trying to populate my outline, I realized, wow, there actually aren’t many things different about Game Studio 4.0 on the phone compared to
[In addition to blogging, I am also using Twitter. Follow me: @matthawley] This post is long overdue, but as I'm preparing the v1.3 release of WikiPlex and working on documentation (yes, I did say documentation) I realized that another extension
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