February 2008

For those of you who have been waiting with baited breath to read the second installment of my RESTful Rails blog post, wait no longer! Although it started as a blog post, it ended up being expanded... Read More
With its built-in support for a REST-style architecture, Ruby on Rails makes building web apps easy and intuitive. In this article, Myles demonstrates how to get a tumblelog application up and... Read More
The recently-launched SitePoint CSS Reference (and its print version, The Ultimate CSS Reference) contains extensive coverage of some of the more obscure areas of CSS. One such area that is going to... Read More
 
In the Tech Times #183 I covered Microsoft’s plans to support browser version targeting in IE8, which will default to rendering a web page the same as in IE7 unless Microsoft’s... Read More
It has emerged, not long after a group of hackers cracked the Windows Live Mail’s CAPTCHA, Google’s Gmail CAPTCHA has also been hacked (possibly by the same group). Hacking Gmail is a... Read More
The RSS tubes were clogged this week with news of the 1.0 release of Adobe AIR, the desktop client for rich internet applications, and Flex 3. It’s exciting news for sure, but I probably... Read More
In a market that’s set to top $100 million in 2008, the SitePoint Marketplace has been independently ranked the #1 source for buying and selling web real estate. Jon Wheatley has begun... Read More
 
Regular readers will no doubt have heard of the new SitePoint CSS Reference site that we launched a few weeks ago. We’re pleased to announce that a limited stock of The Ultimate CSS Reference... Read More

Get Specific with Your CSS Styles

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Specificity is a word that's even more difficult to understand than it is to pronounce! But until you've mastered the concept, you'll never really understand how your CSS style rules are being... Read More
In this post I am going to discuss, how going that extra mile with customer service can make a big difference to the bottom line of your businesses. Recently the exhaust broke on my car. I needed to... Read More
CouchDB has been mentioned a few times on sitepoint.com (here, here, and here) but this year brought some exciting changes for the project. Firstly, on New Years Day, Damien Katz announced that he... Read More
With its announcement on Thursday that it was committed to interoperability, Microsoft successfully sent OpenOffice.org’s OpenDocument formats to an early grave, presenting its own file formats... Read More
First, an abbreviated Windows 2008 Server trip report: it is freaking awesome in too many ways to enumerate at the moment. Now, on to the regularly scheduled foray into the DotNetosphere. Today Scott... Read More
Social Media Buzz Pocket Mining: The New Keyword Research – An interesting description of tools that take the temperature of a social community's “chatter” patterns. Beware of... Read More

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