Today designing a unique, compelling portfolio has become a crucial task for designers, studios, companies and everyone whose business is on the Web. Not only does it help one stand out among the numerous competitors, but it is also a great tool for self-expression and demonstration of skills.

The main objective of a job search is to get a job interview which leads to employment.

Over the past 10 years, Java IDEs have evolved from Symantec's Visual Cafe to Eclipse and NetBeans of today. During this evolution, Java IDEs have added a large number of features, flexibility, and complexity. PremiumSoft's NaviCoder takes aim at these higher end Java IDEs with an easier to use IDE.

It is frustrating whenever personal medical questions become political questions. This happens all the time. Example A, ripped from the headlines, is the kerfluffle over mammograms. Women, doctors and politicians who hate having to go through the procedure are now screaming bloody murder over the non-existent “threat” to halt access to it.

So you’ve hired a freelancer to help you achieve your business goals. Now what? It’s vitally important that you, as the client, do your part in fostering a positive working relationship with your contractor. Embarking on a new project can be overwhelming, especially if it involves technical aspects (such as web design). That’s why you’ve hired an expert!

I bet most of the designers love free icons, The value of icons lies in their ability to communicate with visitors or users in a more intuitive and effective way, User-friendly icon sets are always nice to look at and useful to have ready to hand,

There’s a lot that goes into creating a web design, but I believe it can be broken down into four main components. If you’re able to execute on all four, you will have a hit web design on your hands. However, if you come up short on one, the entire design will suffer. That’s the challenge. All aspects of a great design must compliment each other while helping achieve the end goals of the website. In this article, I’ve broken down the four key components of a great web design with examples and resources.

The days of using tables for layout are hopefully gone. This doesn’t mean that tables don’t have a place in web design and development. When you have tabular data, tables are the way to go and are what you should be using. However, ordinary tables can be limiting to the user when you have complex data to display.

I'm talking about some tools, which comes in very handy while you are in trouble or save you from future trouble or even help you to do things fast. Note that I'm not listing all the tools, neither I'm ranking those.. I have just picked few tools which I use regularly, and have good experience with them.

I’m going to open this article with a short (and true) story. I officially kicked off my marketing software company, HubSpot, about 17 months ago. If you’ve read my blog for any period of time, you likely know that I’m a big beliver in the “charge early, charge often” mantra. As it turns out, in order to “charge early”, you have to figure out what you’re going to charge people. That is, you have to have a price for your product.

I was browsing through last month’s issue of .net magazine when I came across an article by Remy Sharp about HTML5. I must admit that I was a bit out of the loop with regards to this new version of HTML5 and where it was at, and the reality surprised me.

PHP ( Hypertext Preprocessor ) was released in the 1995. PHP was originally known as Personal Home Page written as a set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) in C Language by Danish/Greenlandic programmer Rasmus Lerdorf. Lerdorf initially created these Personal Home Page Tools to replace a small set of Perl scripts he had been using to maintain his personal homepage and was originally designed to replace a set of Perl scripts to maintain his Personal Home Pages

Project Lombok seeks to reduce the (significant) amount of boilerplate in Java code with the use of some clever compile-time annotations. Some debate the wisdom of using annotations like these as a substitute for language features. Here is my review of this interesting new project that is causing quite a stir.

Firefox is a very popular browser, especially with designers and developers. It is not only compliance with CSS, that makes it great, it is also because of its versatility and customization options. With the proper addons, extensions and hacks you can create your own unique browser tailored to your every requirement.

Over 2 billion mobile phone users have access to the web on a global scale. About 700 million of these users have or continue to use their mobile browsers to search the web on a consistent basis. As these numbers increase, the need for crisp, clean, and usable mobile websites are in high demand.

Why would you ever need to optimize (or optimise, which ever spelling you prefer) or reFormat your CSS? Optimizing your CSS will not only allow your web page to load quicker, it also increases the durability and resilience of your site when there is a spike in visitors (i.e. the Digg effect) and, for me, the most important part is that it gives you more readable code

CSS is a great tool for styling web pages and keeping the style code in it’s own place, instead of mucking up the HTML. Unfortunately, CSS is not a programming language, and does not have the tools that come with a server side language like PHP. However, we can use Server-side languages to generate style sheets, and get the best of both worlds!

Designers and developers can never get enough of them, especially when they are free. We are talking about free apps, those little tools that can that save you so much time and save you so much money. In this post we have collected the best recent round-ups and have listed them below. In total there are 77 apps, I am sure you will find something useful in this collection.

Whether you’re talking about weight, height, or the code for a website, the truth is that size really does matter. It isn’t a question of whether or not size matters — in one way or another, our experiences have shown that it does. The real question is how much does size matter? And how much does it matter when it comes to your code?

Looking at Feature Matrix of any full-fledged software product I always miss one column called “Does it work as advertised?”. When selecting a system for automation of Java GUI testing, we thoroughly evaluated 15+ tools, including free and commercial solutions, and found a clear winner which we‘ve been using for two years. If you are going to automate your GUI testing procedures, our finding may save you some time and money.

Cloud-based, SaaS, outsourced - although the barrier to entry for outsourced services seems to be lower than it was in the past, Scott Lowe wants to make sure that due diligence and complete analyses are performed before jumping in with both feet.

Being the “go-to-consultant” for a niche can be great — unless clients don’t have any work for you in that specific area. Here are four steps for diversifying your skill set.

Ben Nadel reviews the jQuery UI 1.7 book - Have a look! "This weekend, I finished reading jQuery UI 1.7 [The User Interface Library For jQuery] by Dan Wellman (released by PACKT Publishing). It's a follow-up to his jQuery UI 1.6 book, which I reviewed in early 2009. Read more

Every year, the main reason why I go to Devoxx is to discover new stuff. For me it’s all about technology watch. The internet and RSS feeds are my main tech watch instrument but there is one thing that is harder to get through RSS: feelings. Conferences like Devoxx are a unique opportunity, not only to see what’s happening but also to sense how the community is feeling about it, which is at least as important to anticipate on what’s going to be important.

There are loads of handy scripts, bits of html and widgets that you can incorporate into your websites and blogs – here we bring together 25 of the most helpful in the first part of this series …