W3C dumps XHTML 2 in favor of HTML 5
Looking to focus on the budding -- and game-changing -- HTML 5 specification, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) said Thursday it plans to increase... more »
Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs
Major browser vendors have been unable to agree on an encoding format they will support in their products, forcing the W3C to drop audio and video... more »
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Best of CSS Design June 2009
The month of July is come in it’s way, and it’s time to select the Best CSS Design for the month of June. There are 14 websites that are worth... more »
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HTML 5: Should we be excited yet?
It's an exciting time to be a web developer. The browser wars are in full swing, reminiscent of the mid-90s. Firefox 3.5 was released only yesterday... more »
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Top Five Causes of Poor Software Quality
When developers are forced to sacrifice sound software development practices to ridiculous schedules the results are rarely good.
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WSO2 SOA Summer School - Security in SOA : The brain friendly edition of complex security specs
"Security in SOA" webinar will focus on key security standards and identity management for SOA with regards to two emerging user centric identities,... more »
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One Public Type Per File
I remember when I started working on this particular project a few months ago. When I looked over the code for the first time, I noticed something... more »
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CSS | Tutorials, Techniques, Hacks, & Resources Huge Collection
This article focuses purely on CSS, and includes a list of articles and links that I’ve discovered over the past year that have been very useful and... more »
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Your project needs someone like me
Every project needs a neat freak or two to clean up the mess that active development brings to every project. As necessary as it to make sure code... more »
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CRUD is bad for REST
In one of my previous posts (Rest: good, bad and ugly), I made a passing comment, about how I think using CRUD in RESTful service is a bad practice.... more »
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30+ CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding in Web Designs
CSS-design is not unproblematic. We need to find workaround crosswise browser inconsistencies, not that easy CSS-concepts and pretty counterintuitive... more »
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ActionScript coding conventions and best practices
I have found really great resource on opensource.adobe.com It contains ActionScript coding conventions and best practices. The content of this article... more »
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Trees in the database: It sure ain't no CouchDB!
Slides for "Trees in the database - Advanced data structures". A solid technical overview of how to save tree models in the database: Adjacency... more »
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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Microsoft recently announced a decision to continue using Microsoft Word's rendering engine for HTML emails in Outlook 2010. It's a move that if... more »
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A Billion Year Ultra-Dense Memory Chip!
When it comes to data storage, density and durability have always moved in opposite directions - the greater the density the shorter the durability.... more »
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Google Increase Page Rank of Bing
Since the release of Bing, the Google Page Rank of the site had been set at PR level 2. This week that level has jumped up to PR level 9 showing that... more »
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API Layering for Distributed OSGi
We’ve added to our distributed OSGi documentation (with examples+source) for ECF 3.0/Galileo: * Distributed OSGi Services with ECF *... more »
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Best Practices to optimize CSS - an academic exercise
35+ tips to optimize CSS stylesheets from planning and syntax, to debugging and deplyoment.
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fixoutlook.org : Microsoft to use Word engine to display HTML emails in Outlook 2010.
Microsoft seems to still do not understand that they should be ahead of standards instead of lagging behind it.The word recently gone out that Outlook... more »
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20 Tutorials for Photoshop’s Tools Awareness
There are a lot of immense Photoshop tutorials online that will teach you all kinds of techniques and tricks, but sometimes you may find that the... more »
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Scalable Web Applications
* What is scalable application design * Tip 1: load balancing the webserver * Tip 2: scaling from a single DB server to a Master-Slave... more »
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An Open Letter to Mozilla Regarding Their Use and Promotion of HTML5 Video
HTML5 video is coming, and a million web developers up and down the web will be soon looking for advice and sample code to make use of HTML5 video.... more »
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Web Developers: Don’t Be Password Idiots
Five tips to help prevent websites from driving users away with overly restrictive password rules.
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using HTML5 video with fallbacks to other formats
One of the challenges to open video adoption on the web is making sure that online video still performs well on browsers that don’t currently support... more »
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The evil of Flash (according to HTML 5)
The reality is that the RIA space is currently experiencing wonderful competition across vendors (Flash, Silverlight, JavaFX) with applications being... more »
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