January 2008
Reprinted from the Tech Times #182. Open source enthusiasts were reeling this week when Sun Microsystems announced that it will be purchasing MySQL AB, the company behind the development of the... Read More
A while back was writing some stuff on this blog about regular expressoins. While that remains unfinished, a mini regex example – nothing earth shattering but a useful technique if you... Read More
So, last year you might remember me running through some experiments with using percentages to position your background-image in CSS. The short version: Percentages are slightly counter-intuitive but... Read More
Low traffic levels and buggy content can be addressed with one simple, cheap marketing tactic. In this detailed expose, Craig explains how error marketing can help web sites attract and keep visitors... Read More
With the announcement late last year that IE8 passes the Acid2 test for CSS rendering (or will pass, when it’s released), the Web Standards Project have their sights set on the next phase of... Read More
Big news this week: Obviously well into planning mode for ColdFusion 9, Adobe is seeking end user feedback through a series of surveys. From Adobe “Director of Engineering” Damon Cooper’s blog,... Read More
Today sees the official launch of The Art & Science of JavaScript, our awesome new JavaScript book, to which I contributed a chapter all about the technique I developed for building a... Read More
In my previous post, I listed 6 things that you should try in Rails. I also promised some example code to get you started. Since I have already covered installing and upgrading rails, the next cab... Read More
A fully accessible, first-person-perspective, 3D maze. Impossible? Not with CSS and JavaScript. In this awe-inspiring tutorial, James shows us how he created a Doom-style dungeon that could be... Read More
John Resig has posted a good summary (including demo code) for how one might implement cross-site XMLHttpRequest calls, a feature currently implemented by the beta 2 release of Firefox 3. In a... Read More
If you’ve been following the SitePoint development blog, you’ll know that the SitePoint’s design contests is in the process of being relaunched as 99designs. Given the nature of... Read More
We’re pleased to announce that SitePoint readers who are thinking of attending the Web Directions North conference in Vancouver, BC in a couple of weeks are eligible for a discount of $50 off... Read More
This should be required reading for anyone working on the server-side – What PHP Deployment Gets Right; this really is the final word on the subject – it really needs adding to the PHP... Read More
Young people with ambition strive to make their mark on the Web, but many great potential start-ups never take wing because of the challenges facing young entrepreneurs. Here, Akash outlines eight... Read More
