December 2008
Google wants all of us to transition to a world in which applications run in the cloud and are accessed via a web browser. A major problem with that vision is that web apps are under powered, they... Read More
It's no secret that censorship is alive and well in countries with oppressive regimes, but censorship of the web also appears to be on the rise in Western nations like the UK and Australia. Perhaps... Read More
An ounce of planning's worth a pound of cure. In this sample chapter from The Principles of Successful Freelancing, Miles Burke shows us some of the questions you'll need to answer before you embark... Read More
What's the point of semantic markup if users will never know or even care about it? Actually, developers can make such semantic markup useful for site visitors by exposing that information with a... Read More
I’m always interested to see how JavaScript works on non-browser platforms. You may not be aware of this but Adobe Acrobat has a complete JavaScript API with which you can add interactivity to PDF... Read More
Imagine if you could record exactly how your actual users interact with your web site and then play it back later to gather usability information. Would that be useful? A new service called Userfly... Read More
Yahoo! has taken its share of lumps this year. But the company's troubles began long before Jerry Yang took the helm in 2007. Over the past four years, Yahoo! has seen its search share drop from... Read More
Advertising might be one of the most hated things on the Internet, but people apparently don't hate it enough to pay to see it go. Getting people to pay for content, especially content that is... Read More
php-tracer-weaver is a tool for automatically generating docblock comments, with parameter types.Read More
A couple of days ago we brought you a sneak peak at Meermeer, an upcoming application from Adobe that will make testing web sites cross browser a lot easier for developers. Meermeer won't be out for... Read More
SaaS applications have allowed business owners to gain access to high quality software at lower prices and with a high level of convenience, but at what potential risk? As the economy heads south,... Read More
Apple is in a familiar position, innovating at the forefront of emerging markets. Last time they enjoyed this position, they closed up their technology and things ultimately didn't work out so well.... Read More
For researchers, finding and utilizing large public data sets has often been a major task. When a database of information about the human genome, for example, contains 31,000 files and occupies... Read More
Just a month after Opera released the last stable version of its number five ranked web browser, the company is back with an alpha of the next major version. Along with speed gains, and 100%... Read More
