February 2008

Drupal 6.0 Released

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The Drupal development team surprised everyone when they released version 6.0 last week, ahead of schedule. After one year of development we are ready to release Drupal 6.0 to the world. Thanks to... Read More
Hey ladies and laddies. It was a very, very significant week in .NET. First and foremost, Windows Server 2008 was released to manufacturing and it is currently available to MSDN and TechNet... Read More
It is possible to profit from your mistakes. Let me tell you a little true story. “ Once upon a time, one Saturday morning my (then) hosting company accidentally deleted one of my reseller... Read More
Fresh blogging blood: Adam Lehaman, previously Adobe’s “ColdFusion Specialist”, is now a full time ColdFusion Evangelist – and he’s also relaunched his blog,... Read More
 
Running a design contest at 99designs is easy, but getting quality responses to your brief can be tough. Fortunately, Joey has put together this list of handy hints to help you ensure you get the... Read More
Yesterday, when Yahoo CEO, Jerry Yang formally spelled out the reasons to shareholders for why his board rejected Microsoft’s $42 billion offer, he made it sound like everything was roses: I... Read More
A new feature thrown into the beta 5 release of the Google Toolbar for IE — ignoring a site’s 404 page and displaying its own File Not Found page (with links and a Google search bar, of... Read More
It’s an emotional moment when a child grows up and leaves home for the first time. The parents fret about whether their little baby will be able to fend for themselves on their own. Undeterred,... Read More
 
I keep running into people who caution against using Singleton and recommend to avoid it like a plague. What is so scary about it? — Kailash Badu It’s a good question, for it is true that... Read More
There's no need to wait for the birth of PHP 6 to take advantage of many of its new features -- PHP 5.3 is just about to hatch, and brings with it a whole nest of goodies! In this article, Ben... Read More
It’s been a while between drinks. Luckily, we’re back. There’s been a lot going on across the intarwebs lately — check it out: $1.2m paid for the letter ‘s’ in a... Read More
If you want to find out how good your product/service is — ask what’s wrong with it. You may think you know what your customers want and need, but that may not be how customer feels about... Read More
We here at SitePoint would like to get your input on how we can improve sitepoint.com — and we’re prepared to bribe you with shiny toys to get it! The SitePoint Reader Survey is upon us,... Read More
News wires around the world are reporting that the Yahoo board are planning on rejecting Microsoft’s $42 billion bid of a week ago. Whether this is a display of brave optimism by Yahoo, or... Read More