November 2008
Christmas is just around the corner, and whether you celebrate it or not, the event happens to coincide nicely with the end of the calendar year — a great time to thank those who have supported... Read More
We've all heard the arguments that Rails doesn't scale, it's hard to deploy or that it will explode in your hands at any given moment. For those of us that use Rails on a daily basis, we know that... Read More
Download episode The SitePoint Podcast is now on iTunes! Click here to subscribe. Hosts: Brad Williams, Patrick O’Keefe, Stephan Segraves, and Kevin Yank News topics covered on this episode:... Read More
Microsoft is preparing to release long awaited web-based versions of their popular Office applications, and Google just booted StarOffice from their Windows software pack. You might think there is a... Read More
Will Barack Obama bring American politics into the Internet age? Early signs point in that direction, as today the Obama transition team announced that the president-elect plans to post weekly... Read More
Nathanael Boehm attended the inaugural Edge of the Web conference (EOTW) in Perth, Australia on 6 November 2008. The conference venue was at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and organised by... Read More
Boulder, Colorado-based Me.dium has relaunched as OneRiot, a new social search engine that ranks search results based on user behavior and interaction with those pages. That might be a good idea,... Read More
YouTube announced that it is adding pay per click ads to search results on their site in the form of sponsored videos. Some see this as a sign of desperation from Google, but we disagree. We think... Read More
Alex takes the latest release of Adobe's flagship product, Photoshop CS4, for a test drive. On his journey, he stumbles upon three awesome new features for adding a whole new dimension to your web... Read More
One aspect of web applications which is almost always overlooked when it comes to accessibility is how easy any randomly generated string might be to read. For many users distinguishing between zero... Read More
Sometimes the money making ideas or business models you dream up are duds, but that's not such a bad thing. Just thinking about new ways to make money is a great sign.Read More
The prevailing wisdom at Google is that they are recession proof. During economic downturn ad dollars will shift online where ROI is more easily measured, and people will turn to search engines to... Read More
Freelancers are amateurs, unprofessional, middling talents, and should be paid less. Or at least, that's the stigma that many genuinely talented freelance designers, programmers, and writers fight... Read More
MyColo, a San Jose, California-based company that played host to servers that controlled botnets responsible for 75% of all spam going out to the world each day has been shut down. But don't expect... Read More
