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: Web Tech BlogAll Aboard the SQL Server Express!
In today’s tutorial, web application development specialist Akash Mehta explores Microsoft’s SQL Server Express and shows us how to build a simple web app.
Massive SitePoint Reference Update Completed: It’ll Save Your Sanity
The SitePoint CSS and HTML Reference has had a massive browser compatibility update. Check out which browsers are now included and find out how the Reference could save your sanity!
iPad vs Flash: Developers, Choose Wisely
The newly revealed Apple iPad offers no support for Flash. Apple does not see Flash as a significant missing feature, while Adobe argues that Flash is a crucial component of the modern Web platform. What is a web developer to think about this situation and how will it impact the web industry?
A Quick-And-Dirty Way To Update Your Firefox Extensions
For Firefox extension users, not extension developers, this post details a simple method for updating your favourite extensions to a new Firefox build, as a stop-gap to tide you over until they’re updated properly.
10 Big Time-Saving Tools for Web Designers
There are a lot of tools out there designed just for front-end developers and web designers. Meitar shares his favorites.
No cookies or JavaScript? No worries. You can be tracked anyway.
Digital civil rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation has released an eye-opening online tool called Panopticlick, designed to demonstrate exactly how uniquely identifiable you are — even if you’re diligent enough to take some of the most commonly prescribed privacy measures.
7 Reasons Why Developers are Deserting iPhone Apps
Are developers being enticed away from bespoke mobile application development platforms in favor of web technologies? Can Apple’s dominance last much longer?
The Dark Side of HTML 5 Video
YouTube and Vimeo have both launched Beta support for HTML 5 video to replace their current Flash-based players. That’s a good thing, right? Not necessarily.
Nokia Offers Free Google Maps Alternative
Although still in closed beta for the moment, soon anyone with a little HTML and JavaScript know-how should be able to use the Ovi SDK/API to tap map data from any mobile application or web app.
What Everybody Ought to Know about Using SVG Right Now
Often, the biggest problem with a really good thing is simply that not enough people know how to leverage it. Such is the case with SVG, a fantastically capable, albeit not entirely cross-browser compatible, graphics technology. In this post Meitar provides an overview of everything you need to know to start using SVG today.