July 2004
While anyone involved in web administration, design and development spends most of their time focused on web apps, sites and the management of them, this by no means is the limit of responsibility.... Read More
This handy little utility was passed on to me by a developer friend and it works much like the standard Linux ‘top’ command does. MyTop, developed and administered by Jeremy Zawodny, runs... Read More
Photoshop has what it calls “Blending Modes.” In the Layers palette, these options show up in the drop-down that is usually set to “Normal.” You can also set the blending mode... Read More
Life without Flash would be boring and mundane. Whether you're a budding Flash designer or a stalwart developer looking to expand your skills, Chapter 1 of SitePoint's new title, The Flash Anthology,... Read More
Sean Corfield recently blogged about the choice to use IsDefined vs. structKeyExists when trying to determine if a scoped variable (session, application, request, form url etc), exists or not. Sean... Read More
A Sitepoint reader asks, “What percent of your time do you allocate to business development vs. client service?” Answer: As much as it takes. Think outcomes, not tasks. When my pipeline... Read More
Going just a bit off topic, I wanted to review a recent small and medium business (SMB) survey released by the Yankee Group on web hosting. The challenge over the past 5 years has changed as hosting... Read More
Can it be? Microsoft has a ColdFusion website out there! This is almost as cool as learning that Microsoft ran (runs) FreeBSD for the HotMail servers.... Read More
Ok all! I just found this, so forgive me if you’ve found it already. Apparently Microsoft has decided to get rid of the MSDE version of SQL Server. MSDE is the Microsoft Developers Edition,... Read More
Jeremy asked in a comment to the last blog: “How do you go from the text tool to a different tool using just the keyboard shortcuts?” Just to explain the question, in many graphics... Read More
Today this blog takes the client/customer’s point of view again, as yet another web developer/IT Professional has disappointed me. In this case the person in question promised to solve a... Read More
A new article is up online detailing how to build the basis of an adaptable distributed membership system. It came about after struggling with migrating a userbase from an established site to a new... Read More
Philip leverages the power of .NET's Web Service capabilities, along with server controls, to build portable membership tools. You can use his solution to produce a single sign-in facility for all... Read More
The religious wars between open source and closed source may have been provoked a bit by a dusty old memo surfaced this month. However, there are also signs of maturity in the open source community... Read More
