February 2009
The following is republished from The SitePoint Tribune #432. I recently had the opportunity to interview Mike Brown, co-organizer of the well-renowned Webstock, New Zealand’s largest web... Read More
The following is republished from The SitePoint Tribune #430. If you’ve ever read the biographies of famous contemporary entrepreneurs, you’ll learn stories of how they started a roadside... Read More
Image replacement -- it's a vital tool for any serious web designer, yet many techniques go to ground when images are turned off. In his article, Paul Young puts forward a new JavaScript-based method... Read More
At one time, Opera had the fastest ECMAScript / JavaScript engine on the market. But that's no longer true, and hasn't been for awhile. This week, Opera announced their next gen engine with an aim... Read More
According to a study by security analysts at Enterprise Strategy Group data breach incidents rose in 2008, and that's bad news for software as a service vendors trying to reach out to a mainstream... Read More
InfoWorld slams web apps, giving five reasons why companies should think twice about deploying their apps on the Web. The SitePoint Podcast crew takes a look at these reasons, and sets InfoWorld... Read More
Our recent competition to give away a copy of Flex Builder Pro 3 and Adobe CS4 Web Premium has come to a close. Participants had one week to read a tutorial about Flex 3 and answer a quiz testing... Read More
Amazon took their Flexible Payments service out of beta today, meaning they now offer a complete end-to-end ecommerce platform (hosting, payments, and fulfillment). But is it a good idea for store... Read More
What would happen if there was a mobile phone that encouraged user feedback all the way through the design process from start to finish? Would the resulting phone be better or worse? We'll find out... Read More
With a search startup on every corner, and none beating Google’s ramparts down yet, why would anyone develop another variant?Read More
If there is anything vital that your users should know, spell it out to them clearly and somewhere they'll actually read it -- that means, don't bury it in your terms of service document.Read More
Troels Knak-Nielsen offers some thoughts about the naming of $_GET and $_POST and general HTTP confusion.Read More
February 4th, 2004 was an important day in the history of the recent Internet. That's the day two highly successful and important sites were launched: Basecamp and Facebook. Which means more to you?Read More
Google is testing AJAX search for some users in the US. One possibly unintended result: search referrer tracking now breaks for all third-party analytics software. Overlooked consequence or Google... Read More
