June 2008
The critical importance of performance in generating traffic to your site is something that you learn very early in your online education. But as your site grows and things become more complicated... Read More
Lots of news in open source this week! I sneaked in news last week of the Railo open source announcement. There’s been a lot of discussion and it seems that the move is seen, in general, as a... Read More
Opera 9.5 is finally out after 2 years of development. Often the underdog browser of the big 4, Opera’s continuous dedication to web standards support has always been commendable. I’ve... Read More
Adobe AIR is a platform for building web apps that run on your desktop. In this introductory tutorial, Akash shows how easy it is to quickly create a simple to-do list desktop application using only... Read More
We’ve all heard the stories of everyday people turning small sites into a healthy income that have allowed them to quit their day jobs and enjoy lives of online entrepreneurship. But if... Read More
Building a web application with Google App Engine is quick and easy, and you have the power of the google distributed content delivery network and the ‘BigTable’ database at your... Read More
Affiliate marketing can be more lucrative than online advertising sales -- but only if you know the tricks of the trade! In this step-by-step tutorial, Peter and Georgina reveal some of the common --... Read More
Thousands of developers have gathered in San Francisco for Apple’s Wordwide Developers Conference 2008. The spotlight at WWDC is on the new iPhone 3G and the iTunes App Store, which is... Read More
Last week Google tweaked their favicon (that little 16×16 pixel icon in your browser’s tab), changing it from an uppercase G to a lowercase g. Now, a change like this is normally something... Read More
Ahead of the WebDU conference next week, Mark Mandel just yesterday released version 1.0 of Transfer ORM. If you’re wondering what the hell Transfer ORM is and why you should care, I asked Mark... Read More
When it comes to web programming languages, PHP probably holds the record for copping criticism from the community at large. Comparisons with alternatives such as Ruby on Rails and Python/Django are... Read More
Rails 2.1 release This week saw the release of of version 2.1 for Ruby on Rails. You can see the announcement on the official Rails blog.The new major features are: Time zones (by Geoff Buesing)... Read More
Yahoo recently announced BrowserPlus, a browser-plugin based runtime that enables web applications to “break out of the browser”, and offer functionality typically reserved for desktop... Read More
Twitter is arguably the most heavily used Ruby on Rails application in the world. Almost since its inception, Twitter has fostered a wildly passionate cult following. Also from the beginning, Twitter... Read More
