March 2005
Welcome to Per’Font’ Match! Our first contestant works for a large software company in Seattle, Washington. She’s a hardworking career girl who excels at word processing and web... Read More
Thank you for the great posts to the last blog entry, about using mock ups as a marketing tool. The story has reached its conclusion, and this entry will tell you what finally happened with the... Read More
For web developers on Mac OS X, there is a wonderful and powerful hidden tool in Safari that in part functions like the Firefox extension Web Developer. Though it does not have quite the same depth... Read More
SEMPO (the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) has successfully held their long-awaited elections. After more than a year of trying times for the organization, the recent election of a... Read More
For most of the past two years the CSS spec has been dissected, twisted, stretched and hammered. Although CSS probably still has a trick or two up it’s sleeve, I think it’s relatively... Read More
I’ve been knee deep in Mono for the past month or so, and I’m very impressed with its features and compatibility with Microsoft’s version. I like the idea of my C# skills being... Read More
It’s been a long time coming, but SitePoint is pleased to announce the return of Daily Catch, SitePoint’s .NET blog! Please help us welcome blogger Tony Patton, who’ll be keeping us... Read More
I found this a fascinating paper on the various organizations that in one way or another, power the makeup and evolution of the Internet. Written by Alex Simonelis, it summarizes each group, its... Read More
The PHP functions strtoupper and ucwords capitalise all characters in a string, and the first letter of every word in a string, respectively. However, there exists in the standard PHP library no way... Read More
In sifting through 25 applicants for a project I posted on elance, one web design firm set themselves apart. They promised a mock up of a site within 2 days, for free, with no obligation. I love this... Read More
I have been starting to work with ab – included with Apache and not a new tool. ab allows for performance testing of web pages, sites and even dynamic scripts based on user load. ab enables the... Read More
A recent blog post reflects some concern over the number of serious resources available for code/patch review for Firefox. This post, by one of the senior hackers involved in the evolution of the... Read More
One of the first and most obvious types of data we want a search term is just how popular it is with searchers. This is important for all search engine marketers, whether they are working on SEO or... Read More
Most people ask for referrals the wrong way. They say something like, “If you know anyone who could use my services, please let me know.” This is not an effective way to get referrals... Read More
