October 2005
All of the Java IDE announcements I reported on a few months back have come to fruition, with recent releases of Eclipse 3.1, NetBeans 5.0 Beta, IntelliJ IDEA 5.0 and Borland JBuilder 2006. As a... Read More
Howdy, my name is Chris Beasley. If you’re a member of SitePoint’s Forums you know me as aspen, the team leader of the Manage Your Site section. I built my first website in 1993 or 1994... Read More
I once got some great advice about dating: “Want to date a ’10′? Then be a ’10′.” The same is true in business. If you want ’10′ clients —... Read More
This is a reprint from the Tech Times #124, for those who don’t follow that publication. Web 2.0 is about what the development community considers new and good ideas and trends in Web... Read More
The IEBlog has appealed to Web designers to ask them to do away with a number of hacks that are commonly used to apply CSS formatting in Internet Explorer only. These are the most common hacks in... Read More
Cast your mind back two and a half years — a generation in internet years. Table-based layout was still the king of the roost, but there was lots of discussion about CSS. What are the... Read More
(Via Ajaxian) The Dojo Toolkit is one of the biggest JavaScript libraries out there, weighing in at about 4MBover 250KB of JavaScript code as written. That’s why the makers of the toolkit... Read More
Welcome to On the Money, SitePoint’s Website Revenue Strategies blog. We’re pleased to introduce Chris Beasley, who’ll regularly be bringing you news, views, tips and tricks to help you create,... Read More
In his blog on MSDN, Microsoft software design engineer Matt Warren has proposed “Yoda-speak” as a useful model for designing more natural programming languages. Matt has been one of the... Read More
There seems to be an unending supply of large- and small-scale tragedy in the world these days, both man-made and natural. This gets to what may seem a tangential issue for selling web services, but... Read More
Macromedia today announced Flex 2, a major new release of its framework for building Web applications with rich, client-side Flash interfaces. Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to speak with... Read More
Two great questions came up on the recent post on equity: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/10/03/quick-case-study-to-give-up-equity-or-not/ 1. Should you test drive a potential recipient of equity... Read More
I’m sitting in my home office, waiting for contractors to come and finish the job of adding cabinets to the office. I paid 50% upfront. The contractors have just billed me the next 40% of the... Read More
A colleague of mine contacted me to ask if he should give up a 30% equity stake in his company in exchange for about $10,000 services in kind (e.g. office meeting space, other support). (Numbers... Read More
