Why Windows Form Designer is Bad
Windows Form Designer in Visual Studio seems great for a newbie programmer. With drag and drop capability and a powerful visual designer, you can... more »
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Simple CSS: Creating More Readable Text
Typography is an important part of Web design. Just like in the print world, your content needs to be readable to your viewers for it to be of any... more »
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IE CSS Bugs That’ll Get You Every Time
IE 6 actually had the best CSS support of any browser when it first came out… SEVEN YEARS AGO. The little bugs in it’s CSS support still haunt us to... more »
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7 Incredibly Useful Tools for Evaluating a Web Design
"An effective web design is one in which your users are able to find information quickly and in a logical fashion. Do they visit the content you want... more »
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6 books to master PHP
If you are new to PHP or are thinking of moving to PHP form other language then the following list of books will provide you with the required... more »
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5 JavaScript Best Practices
JavaScript is an extremely powerful and flexible scripting language. Unfortunately flexible, for many people, means fallible. This article highlights... more »
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Five common PHP design patterns
Usefull tutorial about common design patterns used in PHP.
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41 of the Best Mootools Ajax Examples
Nice list of Mootools examples
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CSS - An Absolute Mess
It's no wonder that beginners to CSS often throw their hands up and revert back to using tables because some bug or other has thrown them off course.
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Firebug 1.2 New Features
Some great awesome new features found in Firebug 1.2 alpha.
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The Top 9½ In a Hacker’s Bookshelf
Every hacker should have a good solid dead tree library to draw ideas from and use as reference material. This list has a bit of everything -... more »
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The Highly Extensible CSS Interface
A four part article series from Cameron Moll on developing a flexible web design. This links to the project summary page. There are tutorials,... more »
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How Not To Form a Standard
Out of a 6000 page submission, here is but one example of how Microsoft's OOXML becomes painful to implement.
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More on the [Computing] Clouds
Recently I stumbled upon a couple of articles1,2 and, remembering my experience with EC2, I discovered that utility computing was not what I was... more »
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Top Open Source PHP Frameworks
After RoR there are lot many frameworks in PHP which are either inspired by it or based on MVC pattern. Today I am throwing some light on some of it,... more »
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To use Open Source or not
In reply to Why do open source web apps suck? a Discussion on open source software !
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Why do open source web apps suck?
I’m a professional web developer, so it goes without saying that I’ve seen my fair share of off-the-shelf open source web applications. I’ve also seen... more »
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6 Ways to Increase Your Confidence As You Code
One of the key requirements for being able to reliably update software is the confidence that the changes you are making are safe. The amount of... more »
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jQuery - It's Here to Stay
So just how popular has jQuery become in such a short time? The answer is VERY. Check out these graphs from Alexa and Google Trends.
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How To Manage Your Website Design Projects
Creating an efficient project management process, such as Leo’s Guide to Simple Project Management, provides the framework for freelance designers to... more »
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Comic: Why developers need to work the weekend
Comic explorers one possible cause.
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10 traits to look for when you’re hiring a programmer
Programmers come with a wide range of skill sets, hail from many countries and cultures, and can have differing backgrounds and experiences.... more »
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Creating An Agile Culture
The mission of this article is to get rid of the illusion that your Software Development Process determines if your company is ‘agile’ or not. It’s... more »
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Next Generation Web Applications
The Web was first instantiated in the August of 1991 in one of the CERN labs. All of it was in two machines connected to the same network and... more »
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A Guide to Web Typography
ypography for the Web has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee flipped the switch in 1991. Back in the days of IE 1.0, good web typography was... more »
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