I think I’ve been bitten by the Apple bug.
I’ve been using computers for more than fifteen years now and not once have I ever been compelled to buy anything with an Apple logo on it. I just find it too expensive for my taste. In fact, I could practically count the total number of hours […]

The ‘net is full of Web apps that can do almost anything from being a simple task list to managing projects. Having your applications and data on the Web sure is handy, especially if you work across different computers. I’m not sure we’re ready for Web-based operating systems, though, but it seems with the […]

Make this blogger happy and get the chance to win $5,000 in return. Umm, what’s the connection? Well, I’ve got this newfound love for Google Gadgets (I’ve practically uninstalled my Yahoo! Widgets Engine already), but I find the system still lacking in terms of the widget gadget-base. I’d make my own, but I’m not much […]

For many websites, the loading speed can be absolutely horrible, you go to them, and leave them before the graphics are fully loaded. Some developers don’t really care, and many broadband users care even less, but I personally like fast loading websites. Much of Google’s early “geek” appeal was its simple interface and quick load […]

I recently acquired one of the best cellphones of the past year, the SE k750i and quickly searched for applications for it, since I had already heard of many great ones.
One of the first that I found was an application that turns your phone into a remote for default media player (WMP for Windows and […]

Greg writes on the perennial problem at the workplace named “interruptions.” According to our friendly usability expert, it is a programmer’s nemesis: one millisecond of interruption could disturb one’s “flow,” or nudge one out of his “zone.”
Programmers produce their best code when they are in a ‘zone’ (others call it the ‘flow’). During this stage, […]

I’ve been doing work on a website recently, and I try to always stick to standards set by the W3C. Sure, call me a perfectionist, but following these standards can warn you of possible display errors in the browsers you don’t use. To figure out if your site follows web standards, you can go here. […]

For anyone who is interested in programming video games, this is your opportunity to start. A programmer, Mark Trover, has put together an 11-part video tutorial on how to create a C++ RPG on Windows. The story -
“An evil demon creature known as the wraith lord has taken control of the world. He controls a […]

A decade ago when the Webby Awards began, they would have been lucky to coax a backstreet bar in Brooklyn into giving them a free space.
But 10 years on, everything has changed.
The event launched the 10th anniversary cavalcade, which will not be staged here until next June. So as not to peak too early, […]

I don’t know if anyone else has problems tracking visitors on your sites, trying to figure out what they want, what they liked, and most of all what they took the time to click on, and very few easy to use sites and applications allow you to do that.
LinkLog is a javascript based tracking […]

Here’s a list of cheat sheets for web developers, they’re very useful for quick reference before a test, or even during web development. There are over 50 cheat sheets in all.
Languages Covered:

HTML/XHTML
CSS
PHP
Databases/SQL
Character Codes
htaccess

In a recent entry on the IE Blog Microsoft appeals to web designers asking them to remove their CSS fixes for IE, specifically the following and their variants:

html > body - http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ChildHack

* html - http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=StarHtmlHack

head:first-child + body - http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/tests/owen/

head + body - http://www.dithered.com/css_filters/css_only/head_adjacent_sibling_body.html

body > element - http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ChildHack

Sitepoint’s sugestion is basically to use the following […]

Need help with htacces? Check out this cheatsheet.
Redirect Visitors to New Page/Directory
Redirect oldpage.html http://www.domainname.com/newpage.html
Redirect /olddir http://www.domainname.com/newdir/
Block Hot Linking/Bandwidth hogging
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ - [F]

It is not any where near perfect yet, but meebo.com is interesting. It is AJAX, it is Instant messaging, and it seems to support the major clients.
I tried it out, and it was not perfect. I had one window for me sending information and one window to recieve it…for the same conversation. It is a […]

Everyone has been talking about AJAX lately, and I have to admit that I am pretty amazed with what it can do, and how it does it, but there could be some more shady uses of AJAX, and specifically XMLHttpRequest that most people don’t know about yet, but should be aware of.
Just imagine, for the […]

You should have a look at these tutorials if you have every attempted to make a website, and it looked or functioned poorly. Amazing series, and easy to understand.
Are you a CSS guru… but a layout and graphics newbie? Or are you a whiz at making great Websites using tables, but feel lost with this […]