October 2008

While we all wait patiently for CSS3 to be supported by the popular browsers, you can take advantage of CSS3 features now by building web applications within the Adobe AIR platform. Experience... Read More
Our latest book has caused much debate, and one comment we've seen posted frequently is that “replacing table tags with divs that display as tables is no different; you may as well just use... Read More
Best-in-class presentation web application SlideRocket comes out of beta today and is announcing both its pricing structure and a new built-in marketplace for presentation content such as stock... Read More
Microsoft announced today that sometime in 2009 in will turn on OpenID support for over 400 million Windows Live ID accounts. That's a huge win for OpenID, but don't be fooled: sheer numbers doesn't... Read More
 
Aviary, a very impressive suite of web applications geared toward creative professionals, announced today that they are coming out of private beta and revealed their pricing plan. First out of the... Read More
Microsoft answered the challenge from Amazon and Google by today announcing their own cloud computing platform. Called Windows Azure, Microsoft's platform is a pay-as-you-go service for creating and... Read More
A new study from Compete finds that Yahoo! actually leads Google when it comes to paid search referrals. But far from being good news for Yahoo!, the study actually highlights all of the things that... Read More
How is Google going to compete with Amazon's cloud computing platform? The engineers on the App Engine team released a tentative roadmap for the next couple of quarters showing how they plan to beef... Read More
 
There are lots of reasons for hating HTML Email, but perhaps #1 on most people's hit list is having to produce HTML Email to deliver to potentially hundreds of different mail clients and... Read More
Personally I’m not a huge fan of Twitter, but it is all the rage at the moment. In fact, there was so much buzz about the launch of "Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong!" that we’ve added a... Read More
Amazon has announced that its popular EC2 service is now officially out of beta. With this comes an SLA that promises 99.95% uptime, along with a raft of other announcements including beta support... Read More
In what has to be one of the strangest acquisitions we've ever seen. Web cam dating site SpeedDate.com has acquired Facebook game Oregon Trail, and will switch the game to its dating application.... Read More
How do you generate nearly a quarter million lines of code in 48 hours? Simple: take about 500 coders, lock them in rooms all over the world, and challenge them to create complete web applications... Read More
The best way to learn is often times to just jump in and do it, but hearing how other successful people did it first can be inspirational. The ten stories in this post detail how other people got... Read More