Episode 8 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), Brad Williams (@williamsba), and Kevin Yank (@sentience).
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SitePoint Podcast #8: The Case For Web Apps(MP3, 26.5MB)
Episode Summary
Here are the topics covered in this episode:
Click Fraud At All-time High
- Report: Click Fraud At Record High (TechCrunch)
Display Ad Prices Continue to Drop
- New AdPrice Index Published This Week (PubMatic)
Blog Networks Struggling Under Dropping Ad Prices
- Blogging Days May Be Waning at AOL’s Weblogs, Inc. (ReadWriteWeb)
JPEG XR Expected in 2009
- Better JPEG Standard Due in 2009 (SitePoint Forums)
- Better JPEG Standard Due in 2009 (CNET)
- High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI) (Wikipedia)
Ma.gnolia Goes Down in Flames with No Database Backup
- Open Thread: How to Prevent Data Loss (SitePoint)
- Ma.gnolia Bookmark Recovery Tools (Ma.gnolia)
- Backup Site? (CommunityAdmins)
Adobe AIR Hits 100 Million Installations
- Adobe AIR Is Flying: 100 Million Installations Accounted For (TechCrunch)
- AIR Passes 100 Million Installs (Adobe)
IE8 RC1 Released
- Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Now Available (Microsoft)
- Overview of Platform Improvements in IE8 RC1 (Microsoft)
- Graded Browser Support Update (Yahoo!)
- Add this
<meta>
tag to your site to make IE8 behave like IE7:<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />
Main Show Topic: The Case For Web Apps
- The Case Against Web Apps (InfoWorld)
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Kevin Yank is an accomplished web developer, speaker, trainer and author of Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL and Co-Author of Simply JavaScript and Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong! Kevin loves to share his wealth of knowledge and it didn't stop at books, he's also the course instructor to 3 online courses in web development. Currently Kevin is the Director of Front End Engineering at Culture Amp.