September 2005
(Via Ars Technica) While the United States has strict regulations in place for the accessibility of publicly-funded websites, those regulations apparently don’t concern the Federal Emergency... Read More
Some of you have requested an update on Experience Publishing, my most recent startup. Now is a good time for an update about what we have learned in getting this venture going, in the hope that my... Read More
Do you wish you could make your favourite site run in Firefox? Want to change the layout of a site you use often? Greasemonkey makes it possible! James shows how this popular Firefox extension allows... Read More
Brian Turner has found something really interesting here: Trackback spammers beat Typepad nofollow. This is the kind of thing that must keep search engine engineers up late at night. What a mess.... Read More
I’m starting to see a lot more META descriptions and Open Directory (www.dmoz.org) descriptions appearing in Google search results, where in the past you could expect to see a snippet of text... Read More
I just shifted some retirement funds to a money manager, who turns out to be an ingenious networker. Regardless of profession, we can all learn from him. First, he used to be a tennis coach, with... Read More
Microsoft has announced several more fixes for IE7 that will have CSS experts dancing in the aisles. A long-standing bug in Internet Explorer creates a “root node” that sits above the... Read More
When it comes to laying out a page in CSS, do you know what it means for an element to “have layout” in Internet Explorer? If not, you might be missing out on a useful tool for overcoming... Read More
The growing mainstream adoption of open source has spawned a number of more serious conversations over the last several years about business models. Particularly, what will work for creating... Read More
My wife and I took a few vacation days this week to improve our tennis game at Nick Bolletieri’s IMG Academy (www.imgacademies.com). We had a great time, and an idea about marketing web —... Read More
(Via Flash Insider, Google Maps Mania) SFSurvey.com, a restaurant review site, has produced a sample script and accompanying video tutorial that lets you integrate Google Maps into your website using... Read More
All the work that’s going into Flash Web applications that look like desktop applications begs the question “Why not just make desktop applications in Flash?” Macromedia tried to... Read More
(Via InfoWorld) In an article at the ASP.NET Developer Center, Microsoft outlines significant changes between the current Beta 2 release of ASP.NET 2.0 (codename Whidbey) and the final Release to... Read More
