April 2005
Aaron Gustafson is putting together a series of articles on how to make select elements stylable. In essence, what his work does is take the select out of the DOM and replace it with a ul, and then... Read More
The WebBase Project at Standford. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin spawned their world-class technology at Stanford and a new group has taken over and plan to focus on the development and... Read More
Well, some time in my schedule has unexpectedly freed up and I’ve re-committed to blogging for Sitepoint. Your kind words during my last blog were a factor, and I appreciate your support. And... Read More
Reported through several outlets yesterday — IBM is looking to hire a developer for its advanced technology group who can contribute to the upstart web browser. IBM is seeking to insure Firefox... Read More
Lachlan Hunt attempts to answer a crucial question about the future of the Web: does that future lie with HTML or XHTML?Read More
Robin is Good. Free is good. In fact, it’s all good with Robin Good’s impressive and exhaustive list of free stock photography archives. Not all are available for use in commercial work,... Read More
I’ve always been a bit surprised at the lack of source control options from Microsoft. The rudimentary Visual SourceSafe (VSS)offering is okay for small teams and small projects that are housed... Read More
If you display source code on your site's pages, you need code highlighting! Stoyan shows how it's done using two techniques: the built-in PHP highlighter, and PEAR's Text_Highlighter package.Read More
My good friend Felix in Germany runs a great web site with a fantastic service for developers wanting to see their web sites on a Macintosh using either Safari, IE 5 or Mozilla (Mac Screenshot... Read More
Last spring, I was contacted by SitePoint about the possibility of writing a new book on SEO, similar to their existing Web Design Business Kit. I submitted a proposal, and was extremely pleased to... Read More
I was digging around the Postfix site the other day and found this handy tip sheet for tuning up Postfix for performance. I particularly like the techniques for dealing with SMTP connections that... Read More
O’Reilly has just launched CodeZoo, a new site to catalogue, distribute, rate, and offer tips for free software components. The site has been launched with a catalogue of free Java components,... Read More
Recently, I’ve had a chance to work with ASP.NET 2.0 a bit, but I still don’t have a business reason to really dive in. One thing I have noticed with the next version is more access to... Read More
More than 350 million English language Web searches are conducted every day. Is your site well-ranked in the results? In Chapter 1 of The Search Engine Marketing Kit, Dan explains the essential... Read More
