December 2007
I know it’s a bit late, but as promised here’s a review of Visual Studio 2008. I’ve had it for a while now, but I wanted to wait until I’d worked on a few projects with it before I offered my... Read More
The term "JavaScript validation" is misleading! As Colin explains, JavaScript really provides input assistance, and that assistance is best achieved if it's tied closely to the back-end... Read More
Climb aboard the Web 2.0 design bandwagon as Corrie steps you through the techniques to create the latest visual effects -- from striped backgrounds to subtle shadows -- using Photoshop.Read More
I mentioned briefly, in my last post, that Wez Furlong made a patch back in March, that allows a native syntax for creating anonymous functions. This could replace the heinous create_function. Since... Read More
As I write this, most of Team SitePoint is up on the 3rd floor partying down in style. It’s the end of a big year for us, and we’ve got a lot to celebrate … but of course there’s also... Read More
It's that time of year! Business owners and operators, coders and designers, grab your pens and start listing your new year's resolutions. Miles has ten practical ideas to get you started -- but the... Read More
Nearly two months on from the release of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and the resulting uproar from Java developers over Apple’s silent removal of preview builds of Java 6 for Mac, Apple has just as... Read More
The following is a little piece published in the last Design View. At the time of publishing, I noted that IE7 allowed you use CSS to set an image width to a percentage (for instance, 30%), but that... Read More
Although he goes out of its way to downplay the significance of the event, there is no missing the sense of achievement in the words of Microsoft’s Dean Hachamovitch on the IEBlog today: I’m... Read More
Having recently announced the CSS Eleven initiative to provide designer feedback and input into the W3C’s CSS Working Group, Andy Clarke has responded to the Opera-Microsoft antitrust action by... Read More
A key component in a JavaScript programmer's arsenal is the methodology of unobtrusive JavaScript -- the idea that a web page's behavior should remain separate from its structure. In this tutorial,... Read More
Over a year ago two competing photo sharing services stumbled upon some thorny issues surrounding the openness of their data: Flickr initially denied Zooomr access to its API on the grounds that it... Read More
With the rise of Javascript, and languages like Python and Ruby, functional programming is becoming more mainstream. Even Java seems to be getting closures in the next version, so does this leave PHP... Read More
Opera has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft, alleging that Microsoft has illegally stifled competition in the browser market by tying Internet Explorer to... Read More
