May 2008
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 was revealed to the world last week, which means the final release is only about a month away. If you haven’t yet checked that your site works smoothly in the new... Read More
Conference season update The WebManiacs conference is on in Washington DC at the moment, so I’ll do a full report on that next week. The week after will be Scotch on the Rocks in Edinburgh... Read More
Is the code in your ColdFusion web application out of control? Do you have six versions of the same function spread across many different files? Ben shows how easy it is to write and use ColdFusion... Read More
This is the story of how a few digg users got it wrong, and the rest of the digg community missed out as a result. As a Marketing Manager it’s not often you get the chance to genuinely give... Read More
I’ve just published the transcript of an interview I did with Andy Budd at Web Directions UX last week. It’s quite long, but well worth the read — we cover all sorts of topics such... Read More
In this interview, veteran user experience designer, author and web standards advocate Andy Budd speaks to SitePoint about blogging, usability testing, the design process, and why he thinks that CSS... Read More
OK, so Ruby on Rails is well structured and saves us time. But where do you start if you're completely new to web development? In this article, Patrick teaches you the important theory behind the... Read More
Nathanael Boehm is reporting for SitePoint from Web Directions Government 2008, in Canberra Australia. It was a chilly start to the day with the temperature hovering just above zero degrees as we... Read More
With a bee in my bonnet, I did a Google site search of our forums today, to reveal more than 15,000 results containing the phrase thanks in advance. I hate that expression, it totally winds me up... Read More
If you are reading this blog you are probably at least reasonably web savvy and use or know of services like Twitter and Flickr. You probably know what RSS is and how and why you might want to use... Read More
Gosh. It just can’t get any easier than this. Automatically and (pretty) intelligently tagging your content is a very powerful thing. Especially if those tags are structured tags and not just... Read More
There was a short note today, that the Rubinius development team has successfully run Rails on their virtual machine. Although isn’t anywhere new production ready yet, it is a significant step... Read More
The release of Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope was easily the biggest thing out of Redmond this week. For those who haven’t seen it yet, it’s pretty amazing. Imagine Live Maps for space with... Read More
Andy Budd kicked off the Web Directions User Experience conference this morning with some terrific insight into what makes a site that really works so memorable for the site’s users. The core... Read More
