June 2006
Here is an easy way for you to determine the marketing strategies that work best: Take a look at the professionals you’ve hired recently, and figure out how you ended up hiring them. In my case... Read More
If you feel you’re not getting enough respect as a web developer, here’s a nice pie [profanity warning - don't click if you're easily offended] to throw at people. Actually think the... Read More
We Now Support Microformats Yahoo! Local rolls out support for the hCalendar, hCard and hReview microformats, and points to a number of useful tools for accessing this information. (tags:... Read More
RE: What Web Application framework should you use? Matt Raible agrees the situation in the Java web framework world is confusing, but believes that Struts Action 2 is the best bet of all the players... Read More
The following is republished from the Tech Times #141. Perhaps inevitably, SitePoint has published an AJAX book. Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications goes on sale today through sitepoint.com, and... Read More
The following is republished from the Tech Times #141. An issue I touched on in my editorial on Web 2.0 Connectedness bubbled to the surface this week with news that Flickr had denied a request from... Read More
Jeremy Kemper just added pessimistic locking to ActiveRecord: Person.transaction do person = Person.find(1, :lock => true) person.visits += 1 person.save! end GA_googleFillSlot("Edit_300x100_C");... Read More
Microsoft Expression Web Designer A brief review of Microsoft’s new competitor to Dreamweaver, recently released as a public preview for free download. (tags: wysiwyg software) window.onload... Read More
If you spend your SEO dollars - and all your time - attracting visitors to your site, it might be time to refocus. As Kent explains, if your site doesn't generate conversions, your search budget's... Read More
I recently videotaped myself and a self-defense pro for my latest educational web site. While the content of the video was fine, I was pretty nauseated at how I looked. Aside from the weight... Read More
Using XStream to forward JSON to a browser XStream is a Java library for easily converting Java object hierarchies to XML data. But now a specialized version of the library has emerged that can... Read More
Something that might have slipped your radar in your Ruby readings is Symbol#to_proc, something that’s been in Rails since 0.14.4. Using this nice little tidbit of Ruby tricky you can simplify... Read More
Use Ruby's method_missing madness to add some DRY to your ActiveRecord migrations. Rails 1.1 introduced
Object#with_options which allows you to remove duplication for method calls with... Read More Copy ‘n paste between Excel and Flex Based on Google Spreadsheets, which amazingly supports pasting spreadsheet content from Excel, this technique uses a hidden text field to support pasting... Read More
