Book Review: MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide
Unless you live under a rock or simply check my site for Christina Ricci pics every morning, you know I’m a bit of a MooTools fanboy. I... more »
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Three High-Performance Caching Methods
Performance is very important in environments with widely distributed data sources because network latency cannot be controlled. Real or... more »
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Opera logo with CSS (also see how it looks in IE 6, 7 & 8)
The Opera logo, rendered only with CSS, no images. Compare it with the real deal.
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Daily Dose - Simon Phipps Elected to OSI Board of Directors
Simon Phipps has quickly found another job in open source software on the OSI board of directors. In other news, Liferay decided that... more »
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Inventor of the cell phone gave up his iPhone for a Motorola Droid
As if Android needed yet another endorsement, it turns out that Martin Cooper -- the inventor of the cellular telephone who pretty much... more »
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ReadWriteWeb: Why Google Continuously Releases New Apps
There is a lot of news coming out from Google on a week to week basis. Sometimes, it can be hard to keep track of what is going on. They... more »
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Mozilla begins testing Account Manager for Firefox to simplify web logins
To that end, Mozilla has put together a draft spec (which you can view at Google Docs) which would add new extensions to the HTTP... more »
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Verdict: Apple does not have a monopoly over the letter "i"
Apple has been dealt a severe blow having been told that it no longer has a monopoly on the letter "i" as part of the name for its... more »
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Why Google Android is winning
The global smartphone market is still RIM's to lose, with Apple in the pole position to profit from its mistakes. But new ComScore data... more »
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Introduction to Mate Framework
Mate is one of the best framework i have ever played with. It is completely unobtrusive. My application code has no dependencies on the... more »
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Back to the Future for Computers: A Return to the 1980s?
A presentation at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) in San... more »
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Different factors create job satisfaction for men and women in IT
For a look at salary and job trends, download our just released 2010 IT Skills and Salary Report. This comprehensive survey, from Global... more »
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Opera Mini 5 on Android: Why?
I’m a big fan of the Opera browser, both in its grown-up desktop client and its mobile browser. It’s my browser of choice on my... more »
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30 Useful jQuery Techniques
jQuery is a lightweight cross-browser JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML. It was released in... more »
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20 Most Popular Open Source Software Ever
20 Most Popular Open Source Software Ever These days, you can quite easily buy a brand-spanking-new computer and install all the software... more »
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Real-time Linux in real time
I don't have the time I used to for reading stacks of magazines and journals. However, thanks to the UCLA kitchen magazine pile, I... more »
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Flex RESTing with MySQL
Like many coders, I get an idea for my next application and start feverishly coding it with eye-popping effects and graphics. After my... more »
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PageMethods In ASP.NET AJAX
Page Methods is a new mechanism in ASP.NET applications where the server code can be bound to ASP.NET pages. It is an easy way to... more »
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Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib
Hot on the heels of the groundbreaking release of ASP.NET MVC CTP 1 in December of 2007, an open source project called MvcContrib came to... more »
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A day in the life of a programmer (comic)
Aaaand someone calls a meeting...
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JSON Visualization
Paste some JSON into the "Input" box and push the "Render" button. HTML output specifies that the resulting structure should be rendered... more »
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Building Business - IT Relationship: Agile Iteration #1
The $1M question to ask: What are some of the biggest issues or opportunities that need to be addressed for some of your core customers... more »
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JavaZone 2009 Open Source Debugging Talk - No Fluff Just Stuff
Very good talk on Java debugging
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Why building a business on the Apple app store is a losing proposition
I’m not saying that you should stop developing your iPhone apps. What I am saying, is that if you are attempting to build your business... more »
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Why web developers have more to learn from Wall Street than Steve Jobs
On the surface, a software business seems dramatically different than credit default swaps. However, when you’re delivering software via... more »
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