October 2011

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Craig has revealed the pros and cons of CDNs. So how do you decide whether a CDN would benefit your website business?Read More
 
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Miles Burke is heading into the home turn of his Alphabet of Web Business with four more nuggets of the kind of gold that comes from real business smarts.Read More
 
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Many things that make the world as we know it possible are so commonplace that we forget they even exist. One of my favorite examples is the elevator; the idea of a lifting platform or box is very... Read More
 
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This is the final article in a three part series focused on setting up EC2 as a sandbox for application developers. I assume you have an AWS account with Amazon; if you don’t, please read Part 1... Read More
 
 
I’m sure we’ve all heard the analogy of the group of blind men who were led to an elephant and asked to describe the thing that they were standing alongside. They were placed at various points... Read More
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Have you been productive today? What's your secret? Georgina takes a look at productivity rhythms, and how they can affect your work week.Read More
 
Inventor of VRML, panel judge on the “New Inventors”, writer, educator and futurist Mark Pesce provides insights on our future relationships with mobile devices on the eve of iPhone 5.Read More
If you’ve ever developed something using Ruby then you know it’s a blast to use. It flows well, reads well, and has lots of cool ways to get things done. Beyond the day-to-day APIs you might be... Read More
 
‘Tis Autumn at last and time to start designing for the times! This is one of the seasons where you have lots of options. You can stick with the Halloween vibe or go with a harvest tone, but where... Read More
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Episode 131 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Brad Williams (@williamsba), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves and Patrick... Read More
 
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Craig looks at the browser market share statistics for September 2011. Chrome's growth has halved -- a statistical blip or the end of its rapid adoption period?Read More
 
In the last article we had a whistle stop tour of blocks. How they are defined, what purposes they serve and the differences between various Ruby versions. It was all very academic. Read More
The Dallas 2011 Schedule for Breaking Development is a thing of real beauty, and the team are being awesome in sharing with the world the videos of the presentations after the event. Herein we bring... Read More
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Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) is a common and serious exploit where a user is tricked into performing an action he didn’t explicitly intend to do. This can happen when, for example, the user... Read More