So you’ve made your website, and it looks great! You’ve started to drive customers and traffic to your website but you’re finding that the money that you’re spending on pay per click advertising, search engine optimisation and online marketing isn’t converting to leads or sales.

You would already know this, but in Silverlight when in full-screen mode keyboard input is by design constrained to a limited set of keys – this often takes an end-user by surprise and leaves them with a perception than it’s an application problem. To overcome this Silverlight limitation I’ve created a Virtual Input Keyboard and accompanying behaviours, that allows you to attach an on-screen keyboard to any receptive UI control.

Gmail - Sweating the Small Stuff: Part 6 in a series exploring the eventual adoption of Gmail in one's daily life, by one once thoroughly dependent on the primarily client-based solution of Microsoft's Outlook from why to how to expand its adoption.

Application-testing and quality-assurance managers are under the gun. They must not only put out top-notch applications, but also deliver them fast. Effective communication between team members and across the IT department is a key component of achieving this, and some of the software to facilitate that communication is in the cloud.

It’s Tuesday morning and a bug has just been found in production. We were about to start working on a user story, but we need to switch gears and fix this bug. Our repository currently looks like the following...

From blog posts to books, sorting a list of items by user rating is a very common task. In this blog post, we discover how the writings of an obscure 18th-century British minister lets us implement a “smart” ranking algorithm that takes into account the “wisdom of the crowd”, and presents a fairer and more accurate representation of results.

Performance comparison - Google Closure Compiler vs. YUI Compressor

At the center of just about every personal productivity system are lists – GTD has it’s context lists, Pomodoro has it’s action inventory and daily to-do lists, todoodlist has, well, the todoodlist, and so on. But there are a lot of different kinds of lists besides your task or to-do list that can help you be more productive. Lists in general are powerful tools

If you want to succeed as a freelancer, you must get your name out there. You can be the best in what you do but if no one knows about you, your freelancing career is as good as dead (sorry to be so harsh, but it’s true). While many freelancers are obsessed with being web celebrities, there are ways to stay under the radar and still have a successful freelance business.

Closure Compiler is a Javascript optimizer that compiles javascript code into a compact, high performance form. The compiler does more than a standard Javascript compressor. The Closure Compiler reduces the size of your JavaScript files and makes them more efficient, helping your application to load faster and reducing your bandwidth needs. Moreover, it removes dead code, rewrites the code to improve code running speed on browsers' Javascript engines. It also checks syntax, variable references, variable types and warns about Javascript errors.