August 2005
Tonight at my boxing class we had a guest trainer, who introduced us to a fitness program based on Russian Kettle Bells. These weight-like things have been used in Russia for hundreds of years, and... Read More
Yes, you can use Flash and other rich media successfully in email... provided you follow a few rules of thumb. Thomas explains the best-practice basics and shows how these guidelines can improve... Read More
In State of Ajax: Progress, Challenges, and Implications for SOAs, Dion Hinchcliffe gives his take on just where all the hype and sensation surrounding AJAX is headed. I also editorialized on this... Read More
Rand Fishkin has found a nice resource for folks who want to understand the science of information retrieval… SEOmoz Blog | Great Site for Learning about Term Weight Rich Ackerman’s site... Read More
Over the past couple days, I’ve become plenty annoyed with Google’s tracking links breaking, or failing to return any data. I get the same experience with Yahoo (which loves redirection)... Read More
(via O’Reilly Radar) Technology investment guru Bill Burnham cites a Neilsen report that found, in a survey of 1,000 blog readers, only 11% use RSS feeds to monitor blogs and nearly two-thirds... Read More
Google employee Matt Cutts describes a new enhancement to Google search results in UI fun: Better snippets. Mr. Cutts is one of the most watched individuals in the search engine universe, and... Read More
A reader asks how to reward clients and colleagues who provide referrals. First, cultivating referral sources should be a key part of how you market your business. It is the easiest, most fun,... Read More
Microsoft has posted the second pre-release version of Acrylic, the powerful but difficult-to-use vector/raster drawing application that is the successor to Creature House Expression. In addition to... Read More
Flash smartypants Paul Neave has taken the public APIs of Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth and built his own Flash interface to browse the satellite imagery offered by both of these services.... Read More
Last week we were dealt a little design challenge in an otherwise straight-forward site mock-up -- the presentation called for the ‘content images’ to have rounded corners.
In the past, there... Read More
A reader asked about best ways to provide bonuses to developers. I’m not a big fan of bonuses. First, it is hard to be objective about how much bonus a developer or designer should get (as... Read More
Stefan Esser over at the PHP Security Blog is not happy. He’s just written a blog posted titled WordPress – developers totally nuts claiming that only hours after releasing version 1.5.2,... Read More
Yahoo’s Mindset, currently in Beta and part of Yahoo’s research labs, shows us where the future of search may be. Through a slider bar, Yahoo Mindset allows searches to choose their mix... Read More
