September 2004

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/influence-sell-web-design Please read the above article when you can. It’s a fairly in-depth tutorial on influence strategies and skills. And please post your... Read More
Selling is all about influence skills... Do *you* have any? Andrew walks us step by step through the principles of influence, then explains how we can create more influential marketing tools and... Read More

My Favorite tags

By | | ColdFusion

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Cameron Childress recently professed his love for ColdFusion Lists and this got me thinking. I started to wonder what are my favorite tags, which tags were the most fun, or coolest in my mind? So... Read More
This has been a gratifying day because two people who purchased my book contacted me to confirm that the advice about choosing a target market works. One learned this lesson the hard way. He invested... Read More
 
…designers, according to Mike Chambers (Developer Relations Product Manager for Macromedia). For the past couple of releases Macromedia have concentrated on developers as is more evident in... Read More

More on rich web UIs

By | | PHP

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Some links and the search for a backwards compatible XmlHttpRequest… John Wilger has some interesting thoughts in A Better Web Application Interface and A Better Web Application Interface.... Read More
Embrace the advanced features of SQL Server's Web Assistant Wizard and wave your database manipulation cares goodbye. Displaying selected data is easy with the tools the Assistant provides to... Read More
After the last hard topics, Difference Mode is refreshingly easy in Photoshop to understand: Difference Mode: Looks at the color information in each channel and subtracts either the blend color from... Read More
 
Little tip. To set the page title on an ASP.NET Web From using Whidbey, add runat=”server” properties to the head and title tags in your HTML: Now, you can set the page easily using:... Read More
From Jan – Comments API available; Using this API every Horde application can now add threaded discussions to any objects. Finally! A forum engine you can integrate with your own applications.... Read More
Make your forms more usable by controlling the user's scroll position after post-backs. Robert leverages JavaScript to implement this valuable functionality -- in your chosen server side language!Read More
I was recently introduced to a fascinating consortium site that follows standards of all stripes. However in an August bulletin, the site delves into the open source sphere and what the editors... Read More
Artima is a site focused on software development. If you want your software development platform / tool / methodology / whatever to be subject to some serious discussion and attention, it’s a... Read More
Here’s the official description of Pin Light mode: Replaces the colors, depending on the blend color. If the blend color (light source) is lighter than 50% gray, pixels darker than the blend... Read More