April 2008
So once again I find myself intensely irritated by a growing wave of practice that is touted as correct when its correctness is entirely arbitrary. I’m talking about the finer points of... Read More
Only a week or so ago I was wondering if Measure Map had been abandoned by Google. This morning, out of the blue, I got an email that began amusingly with the words “Remember Measure... Read More
Your online community can only grow so much while you're moderating everything yourself. There comes a time when you'll need to delegate many of your moderation responsibilities to a trusted team. In... Read More
An interesting couple of posts in the past week by Morten Hjerde, in which he compiles Norwegian usage data (mobile phones with color screens, support for Java and a web browser). In his posts,... Read More
About a year and a half ago I was totally over Twitter. When I say “over it”, I mean So Over It that I couldn’t even get Into It. Twitter was new, I didn’t know many people... Read More
This post is offically quite late. A combination of hackers and the first nice weather in 6 months can be quite distracting. Microsoft has made some big announcements this week around their web... Read More
With the CSS Working Group seemingly toiling in obscurity to pin down the exact wording of specs that may never be implemented in a real-world browser, the WebKit team is leading the charge in moving... Read More
Welcome to the 15th “Week in ColdFusion” wrap-up! I hope that I’m saving people time, or at least pointing out some handy posts you might have missed. If you have any feedback,... Read More
Ever wondered whether your design recommendation was actually the best option? Ever disagreed with a stakeholder over the best creative execution? Google's new Website Optimizer tool makes testing... Read More
The popular SitePoint CSS Reference today added an exciting feature to its already impressive list — live demos. This is a feature that was among the most commonly requested in our recent... Read More
Taking Things Further: ActionScript 3.0 While MXML defines the structure of your Flex application, ActionScript 3.0 defines your application’s behaviour. Now, you may be thinking, "Hang... Read More
To run this simple page as a Flex application, we need to compile our MXML code using the Flex SDK. The result is shown below: The first thing you’ll notice is that MXML is an XML format. To... Read More
If you're thinking of submitting an article in SitePoint's Flex/AIR competition, but don't know where to start, then Rhys is here to help! In this beginner's article, you'll learn the very basics for... Read More
I alluded to the release of Phusion’s Passenger (AKA mod_rails) – an Apache module that can run multiple Rails sites, just as PHP does. The significance of this is pretty huge. Up until... Read More
