August 2007
Having a properly structured project—or more properly, solution—is absolutely vital to ensuring a development initiative’s success. In a pinch, a developer needs to be able to pull... Read More
I was feeling pretty nihilistic this morning. Overwhelmed by having to navigate the dirty waters of capitalism trying to do what I feel is right. Not exactly cheered by the possibility of serious... Read More
I was recently working on a command line PHP tool, and didn’t have easy access to our normal PHP unit testing framework built around SimpleTest. After a few lines of... Read More
It appears that larger advertisers (the ones that pay) are asking ad networks to block forums from showing their ads. The larger the advertiser is, the more controlled they want the content to be.... Read More
Icons and infographics are so integral to all GUIs (OS’s and online) that, like the street signs outside your window, we hardly notice them, even when we’re using them. And that’s... Read More
When I was building my extension for finding unused CSS rules, I needed a way of qualifying any href value into a complete URI. I needed this because I wanted it to support stylesheets inside IE... Read More
Ted Leung is a Senior Engineer at OSAF, and blogs at Ted Leung On The Air Mimi Yin is a UI Designer at OSAF (Disclaimer: I work at OSAF on the Web UI for Chandler Server.) This talk centered on the... Read More
Steve Souders is Chief Performance Yahoo at Yahoo. Talk focused on optimizing performance of client-side code, which — surprisingly — makes up 80-90% or more of the user wait time. Steve... Read More
There are two types of people in this world: those who are passionate about the Web, and those who are not. Those in the first group strongly believe that the Web is more than just a tool for sharing... Read More
Wil Clouser is a Web Developer with the Mozilla Corporation, and blogs at Micropipes::Blog. Mike Morgan is Manager of Web Development at Mozilla Corporation, and has a blog at morgamic.com. This talk... Read More
Adam Keys is a software developer and writer. His blog is at therealadam.com. In this talk, Adam presented a number of methods for effective advocacy and for getting along with other developers. In... Read More
Andy Lester is with the Perl Foundation, and maintains a blog at petdance.com. Andy’s talk gave practical advice for catching up on all the tasks you put off until some later date (that... Read More
Adam Keys is a software developer and writer. His blog is at therealadam.com. The days of one guy putting together all the hardware and software together by himself in his garage are long gone... Read More
Mikeal Rogers is a QA Development Engineer at the Open Source Applications Foundation, and has a blog at semanticmikeal.com Adam Christian is also a QA Development Engineer at the Open Source... Read More
