The Harsh Reality Of ASP.NET Developers
You're participating in the stagnation of the World Wide Web and you hold the human race hostage. Ouch, that was a bit harsh, but it probably got your attention. That's important because what I want to address is no laughing matter.

Date:2008-05-07

Don't Be Lazy When Coding
Lately I've been seeing a lot of sites where the designers were a bit lazy on the coding of the visual elements. Especially when it comes to creating new styles for the style sheet. In CSS, it's pretty easy to develop a style that allows you to have certain portions of text display exactly how you want.

Date:2008-04-09

SES New York: Design And Search Engines
Making both humans and machines happy. Ever look at different doctors' bookshelves? There are usually at least two or three books in common, regardless of the professionals' fields or age. This happens because the basics are important, and a session at SES New York returned to the basics of site design.

Date:2008-03-19

Next-Generation Wordpress Theme
I've been talking for months now about the integration of the wonderful Sandbox and the Yahoo User Interface CSS library. Well, I've done it. It's codenamed Vanilla and it's in "closed Alpha" just for now.

Date:2008-02-20

Sideways Movement For Web Standards
There's some really interesting conversation going on about IE8 these days. A List Apart article from Aaron Gustafson. A List Apart article from Eric Meyer. Basically, it sounds like Microsoft took a thrashing when it released IE7, an imperfect but much more standards-compliant browser than IE6, and all those sites that had been built or hacked or conditionally commented to make...

Date:2008-01-30

Cloud Computing Architecture From Salesforce
Salesforce.com today announced Force.com Cloud Computing Architecture. Delivering the power and flexibility of cloud computing to the enterprise, Force.com Cloud Computing Architecture includes a new pay-per-login utility pricing model for the Force.com Platform, and Force.com Development-as-a-Service, a new set of tools and services that will enable enterprise developers to easily harness the promise of cloud computing for application development.

Date:2008-01-17