October 2007
Anyone that has used Rails 1.2.3, 1.2.4 or 1.2.5 may have noticed a number of deprecation notices in their development logs. Whilst these deprecated methods still work as expected in 1.2.x versions,... Read More
Importing existing graphics and art into a Photoshop document is no big deal, as Corrie explains in this step-by-step tute. Learn the techniques the pros use to import art swiftly and effectively for... Read More
Most ColdFusion programmers have heard of Ben Forta -the leading CF “guru” since the Allaire days. The author of no less than six editions of the definitive “ColdFusion Web... Read More
We can learn a lot about designing usable web sites from the offline world. For instance, when I was in Adelaide a couple of weeks ago visiting family, I took a drive around the Adelaide Hills.... Read More
So, it’s been almost two years since we first published a little a piece on getting your thumbnails to work again in Adobe Creative Suite 2. The exec summary: Adobe disabled many of thumbnails... Read More
The seed has been sewn for the next major release of the Ruby on Rails framework. Towards the end of last month, the Preview Release was announced and now that I have had a chance to play with it, I... Read More
It seems that Google has recently changed their PageRank algorithm. A number of sites have experienced a significant drop in PageRank as a result. Boing Boing: Was 9, now 7. Engadget: Was 7, now 5.... Read More
Earlier this year, the Yahoo! Performance Team published a series of front-end performance optimization "rules" for optimizing a site. In this tutorial, Stoyan takes the lead, showing us... Read More
Judging by many of the comments on my previous post, the licensing cost of ColdFusion is a major issue for many people, given the many free and open source alternatives. This is not a new concern... Read More
Rob Conery—the creator of the very, very slick SubSonic persistence... Read More
Like many others, I prefer to use procedural PHP as a template language. While PHP’s syntax makes it a practical choice for this, there is a problem with embedding dynamic content. Most PHP... Read More
In my original blog post, Dealing with unqualified HREF values, I put forward a method for converting an href value in any format into a fully-qualified URL, using data from the document location... Read More
The growth of a typical web site might look a little like something this: You build the first version of your site and deploy it into a shared hosting environment (Dreamhost, etc). All is well. You... Read More
World Usability Day is an international, annual event that will be held on November 8th this year with the theme of Health. The main goal of the event is to promote and encourage usability in the... Read More
