July 2006
This week, Kevin Yank is reporting from OSCON 2006 in Portland, OR. Kicking off the first day of open sessions at OSCON today, Tim O’Reilly gave his perspectives on the state of open source,... Read More
All this week, Kevin Yank is reporting from OSCON 2006 in Portland, OR.Presenter John Paul Ashenfelter provided the standard sales pitch for testing, but with a web development spin, and demonstrated... Read More
Two of the most costly web project mistakes are to delay testing until just before launch, or not to test at all. Save dollars, your sanity, and possibly your job, with this comprehensive checklist.... Read More
Search Engine Optimization should be considered, and implemented, throughout the planning, design, development, and maintenance stages of your site's evolution. But where should you begin? And how... Read More
Via Simon, Gina Trapani asks some very relevant questions in the anti web 2.0… I still prefer my text files and my own MySQL databases to anyone else’s, and I’m not sure why I’m so alone... Read More
Ah,.. Ajax. It can be so nifty when it works well, but few technologies can lay a glove on it when it comes to making developers look (IMHO) silly. As Cameron Adams said recently: Ajax gives web... Read More
Today a client of mine emailed me with great news. He is starting to see results from the last 6 months of his marketing efforts. For instance, his sales pipeline is heating up thanks to an... Read More
Although it still feels like the SitePoint News Wire has just started, I’m hitting the road for four weeks, and as its primary contributor I will only be able to post occasional updates during... Read More
Browser Comparison: Firefox 2 Beta 1, Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3, and Opera 9.0–Review on ExtremeTe One of the first of what will be many comparative reviews of the new generation of browsers.... Read More
Writing XPath can be a painful experience. But there are some tools to aid the developer in their struggles. One new one for Visual Studio 2005 users is XPathmania, an integrated XPath visualization... Read More
Json.NET 1.1 released James Newton-King’s .NET library to ease communication between AJAX frontends and .NET web applications using JSON has been updated. The new version includes seamless XML... Read More
A former client sent me a request for proposals (RFP) the other day. I don’t know about you, but I cringe when I receive RFPs. I rarely win RFPs, for the following reasons: - Generally firms... Read More
Matt Mickiewicz interviews Jakob Nielsen, author of the brand new book "Prioritizing Web Usability," about AJAX, usability's close link to keyword advertising, and some of the... Read More
Today’s post covers a basic principle in sales, but one that is always worth a refresher. The “sales funnel” is a nice image for conveying the overall marketing and sales process.... Read More
