October 2008
Migrations in Rails are really awesome. If you haven't played with them before, migrations allow you to modify the database in atomic steps, making upgrades (and downgrades) much, much, MUCH easier.... Read More
At any one time during the day there are up to 100 shows streaming on BlogTalkRadio that you could listen to, as do 3.5 million other people each day. The two year old site offers free Internet... Read More
Microsoft is not a name you think of when you think of open source web applications, but that might change with the recent release of the Web Application Installer. Web AI is a downloadable program... Read More
According to the results of a new survey from web browser maker Opera, just 4.13% of the web's code passes the W3C validator. That's abysmal, and worse, ~50% of site's bearing badges proclaiming... Read More
Omnidrive has been one of the most troubling startup stories of the past few years. Once a promising online storage service, the most striking thing about the startup's failure wasn't that it... Read More
Alex road tests the latest edition of Dreamweaver and finds more than enough good reasons to justify an upgrade. Some of the cool new features include: advanced JavaScript interpretation, a Code... Read More
Techy Treasures is a new, regular feature where we'll be publishing tips, tricks and code snippets for web developers. And to start with, a neat little function that checks whether a variable is... Read More
Google is producing more and more original video content for its YouTube property and its Google Content Network advertising distribution channel. It now has at least three original web video... Read More
It has been many years since the original idea was proposed (back in 2004) but RDFa is now a full fledged citizen of the W3C. It reached recommendation status on the 14th of October.Read More
Adobe Flash 10 wasn't the only major web runtime to have a milestone release this week. Microsoft's Flash competitor, Silverlight, officially hit version 2.0 yesterday and added a slew of new... Read More
We know you’ve been hanging out for it … well the wait is over—the quiz is back! First things first, though: we’ve just published another excellent tutorial, which you should go read.... Read More
Intelligence Gaming, along with Denver-based design shop EffectiveUI, are announcing today a new immersive, 3D video platform built on Flash 10. The platform will be used initially for training... Read More
Adobe today officially released the tenth version of its ubiquitous Flash player on the world. Flash 10 adds a large number of new features to the Flash player, but the most flashy (forgive the... Read More
Dragonfly is Opera’s web development debugging tool and was first released with Opera 9.5. We caught up with Charles McCathieNevile and Andreas Bovens from Opera at a Melbourne Web Standards Group... Read More
