Making Choices For Web Developer Sanity
Nowadays, there's too much information for a web developer to handle: Web 2.0, AJAX, JavaScript libraries, Ruby on Rails, ASP.Net Atlas/AJAX, CSS, DWR...and the list goes on.

Date: 2006-12-27

Posts That Share With Others - Link Roundups
For blog owners who post on at least a daily basis, the need to generate new blog posting topics is endless. At times, the blogger is faced with nothing at all about which to write. The dream is a post that presents itself on a regular ongoing basis.

Date: 2006-12-06

Converting A Date To RFC822 For RSS Use
I wrote a new dynamic RSS feed for a little project called Little Helper. It all works fine, but when I tried to validate it using FeedValidator, the pubDate was invalid.

Date: 2006-11-20

ASP.NET 2.0: XML Membership Provider
ASP.NET ships with a SqlMembershipProvider and a ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider that makes user authentication and authorization very easy to implement, but for some reason those are the only membership providers provided natively by ASP.NET 2.0.

Date: 2006-11-06

Why AJAX Websites Taste Like Fast Food
If you have ever bought a hamburger and fries from an efficient fast-food outlet, you will easily understand the web development concept called 'AJAX' (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML)...

Date: 2006-10-23

Microsoft, Mozilla Ready New Browsers
Internet Explorer 7 has been primed for release through Microsoft's Automatic Updates, while the Mozilla Foundation unveiled Firefox 2 Release Candidate 2 for their users.

Date: 2006-10-09

Six Ways Not To Develop Your Website
When your firm is a division of a Fortune 500 company or not, it should be easier to avoid mistakes in crafting a corporate e-commerce site.

Date: 2006-09-25

How to Use Tracepoints
In addition to breakpoints, Visual Studio 2005 provides a new feature called tracepoints. A tracepoint is a special type of breakpoint that performs an action when it's encountered. Figure 4-10 shows how tracepoints work.

Date: 2006-09-11

Google Bestows Much Love Upon Webmasters
The revamped Google Webmaster Central has enough changes in place that it merits a second look for our readers...

Date: 2006-08-28

So Google Saves... Nothing?
Google is well known for trying to squeeze every possible byte out of Google.com's HTML, removing every unnecessary bit of code in order to make the page lighter and load faster.

Date: 2006-08-14

The Coming Developer Wars
We (Maryam, Patrick, and I) had a wonderful breakfast with Chandu Thota. He's a developer lead on Microsoft's Windows Live Local service.

Date: 2006-07-24

Lenssen Cites Nine Web Standards Issues
The World Wide Web could be a much user-friendlier place if developers heeded the words of non-pareil blogger Philipp Lenssen on the misunderstanding of web standards.

Date: 2006-06-26

Wide Vs. Narrow Design - The Screen Resolution War
One of the first and most critical decisions web and user interface (UI) designers must face when designing for a fixed screen resolution is whether to design for the classic, narrow screen resolution of 800x600 pixels or the newer, now-more-commonplace resolution of 1024x768 pixels (and above).

Date: 2006-06-08

AJAX Enthusiasts Unite
Proponents of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML-style development have formed a group to advance their goals. The OpenAJAX Alliance attracted some influential individuals and corporations, including IBM and Zimbra.

Date: 2006-05-23

Developers Spoiled For Free DB Choices
It is not just MySQL or PostgreSQL offering freely available databases, as Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM all want to hook developers on lite versions of their products.

Date: 2006-05-04

Decoding Web Hosting Reviews: ASP To FrontPage
Web hosts come under many names: ASP Hosting, Cold Fusion Hosting, Java Hosting, PHP Hosting; and as such, so must web hosting reviews.

Date: 2006-04-24

Site Maps and Your Website
Sometimes websites have so much information available that it becomes difficult for visitors to get to all the information. There are many tools available in such a situation, including a site map.

Date: 2006-03-07