Technology talk from behind the scenes
The United States of America, being the most powerful economy in the world, its citizens heavily rely on technology for almost all aspects of life. In fact, the whirling dynamics of a volatile economy and a vulnerable society has turned data into the new age…
Dashboards are a great addition to any email marketing campaign software. A well designed dashboard can allow users to easily track an email campaign in real time, with the added benefits of instant graphics and agile reporting features. This software is a good complement to…
Time to let go of Internet Explorer 6? It’s waaay past time.
Yesterday Microsoft posted a piece of news very important to all modern web developers – they are reversing their decision regarding the default behavior of IE8. For those web developers who have been too busy to check their feed readers lately – here’s the short…
I’ve been a fan of MooTools over jQuery for a while, but jQuery just came out with something that makes it a bit more competitive – a set of widgets. If you head over to http://ui.jquery.com/ you can see the new demos online. Here’s a…
I think that it’s a lost art in many ways – coding by hand. With all the visual point-and-click editors out there, few people code from scratch anymore. Personally, I prefer hand coding and will until a visual editor comes along that works well enough…
Why? I think that has been the question echoing over and over in my mind. Why? Why? Why was this choice made? Before I continue ranting about how Microsoft seems to get a thrill out of coming up with one developer-frustrating bit of news each…
As I’m working on my book one topic that I’m trying to emphasize keeps coming to mind – that topic is the difference in how browsers will render the same page. I think that far too many people see this as a huge problem, when…
If you’ve checked out your website in Mozilla Firefox or one of the other non-IE browsers, you may have been shocked to discover that NONE of the ‘alt’ tags you spent so long preparing are working. What browser do you use to check your web…
In a time when some web developers are trying their hardest to make standards compliant websites using proper CSS and XHTML, far too many hacks have come about to solve a plethora of problems in design. Most of these hacks are, in my view, extremely…