July 2007
Regular readers will be well aware of the work we’ve been doing over the last few months to improve the SitePoint Contests and Marketplace. My role in all of that has been to improve the... Read More
Broadband connections mean nothing for users if your site is slow because it’s poorly coded or thought out. YSlow, a new plug-in that integrates with Firebug , has just been released by... Read More
The following is republished from the Tech Times #169. As of July 10th, Facebook had thirty million active members, one of whom is me. In the past two weeks, it seems like half my active contacts... Read More
ACCC takes on Google Google is facing charges from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission claiming that the difference between sponsored links and organic search results is unclear and... Read More
Hidden on many pages of the Web are tiny packets of information -- people, places, events, and more. You and I can read them, but they're invisible to machines. Imagine the possibilities if that... Read More
If you live in Australia or New Zealand, you may have heard about Full Code Press, the international site in a day “geek olympics” taking place in Sydney on August 18, between Australia... Read More
Last week I reported on my tests using percentage to position background-images. Today’s post is a walk thru of where I put this research to work — published earlier in the week in the... Read More
It’s that time of year, when Australia seems to be abuzz with web design awards. First on the calendar are the WAWAs (Western Australian Web Awards), organised by the Australian Web Industry... Read More
Just to follow up on my earlier post, podcasts of nearly all of the sessions from the second day of @media London have now been made available. Slides and notes from most of the sessions have also... Read More
As AJAX has come into the spotlight over the past few years, many web developers have been creating some great applications that handle data more like a desktop application. However, much of the... Read More
Dojo 0.9 lands softly. Dojo 0.9 beta is out with a significant speed boost, pervasive improvements to accessibility (including keyboard navigation), a revamped and consistent themeing engine for... Read More
Via digg: Our current feature article about developing for the Facebook Platform with PHP is extraordinarily timely, given the recent announcement from venture capital firm Bay Partners on Tuesday... Read More
So here’s the situation: you want to syndicate some content using JavaScript to pull in the data (like AdWords or similar programs). The syndication script can’t know anything about the... Read More
The following is republished from the Tech Times #167. When we first sat down to write Simply JavaScript, Cameron and I had to decide how complicated we wanted to make things. On the one hand, this... Read More
