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Pretending To Be The Blind Guy : Does It Work?

So you are a web designer and you like your work. You have the drive to improve yourself so you do some reading about web design. You find out there are blind...

1 replies - 783 views - 12/02/08 by Niels Matthijs in News

IE 6: Now Coming To A Cell Phone Near You

Something was brought to my attention which, to say the least, left me a little baffled: IE 6 is coming to mobile phones... The Windows Mobile Team blog...

4 replies - 2960 views - 12/02/08 by robnyman in News

Why Inline CSS And JavaScript Code Is Such A Bad Thing

When I review web sites, and also in my own projects with a number of different team members, I almost constantly stumble across something web developers...

3 replies - 8386 views - 11/28/08 by robnyman in News

My PHP Best Practices

PHP's greatest strength is also its greatest weakness. Flexibility.There are an infinite number of ways to perform the same task which PHPwill happily do...

1 replies - 5937 views - 11/27/08 by Mike Bernat in News

You STILL Work With JavaScript?

Some time ago, I had lunch with a former colleague I last saw in 2000, when we were working together in a project. We got to talking, and eventually he asked...

4 replies - 2974 views - 11/26/08 by robnyman in News

-itis Abuse : About Diseases And Semantics

With the floatitis series finally coming to an end,I think it's time for some critical introspection. Even though I'mquite happy with the series itself,...

0 replies - 721 views - 11/25/08 by Niels Matthijs in News

Specialize In Something Relevant

If you read my blog entry on Language Specialization you might have concluded that I prefer generalists. If, in our industry, generalists were what the...

1 replies - 5836 views - 11/20/08 by Jay Fields in News

Floatitis Part 6 : Rounding Up

It's been a while since I started this series on prevention of float abuse. This final part will summarize the things discussed in short but will also take a...

0 replies - 1514 views - 11/17/08 by Niels Matthijs in News

What If Your Contact Form Fails?

Did you ever think about it? Someone types the message, clicks on send and gets the error message like "Something went wrong. Sorry...". Ok, what...

7 replies - 7148 views - 11/17/08 by dzovan in News

Floatitis Part 5 : The Future Of Inline-Block

In this pre-final article on float prevention, I'll be digging into a method which though very interesting, has little practical value (yet). This of course...

0 replies - 1301 views - 11/10/08 by Niels Matthijs in News

BR element sucks!

You know how it goes. Designer creates the design templates or whatever and then developers have their say. Sometimes, it happens that they mess up...

3 replies - 1401 views - 11/10/08 by dzovan in News

Three Great Reasons Why Even Lonely Developers Need Source Control

Sometimes, when you're a lone developer on a project you skip some of the important facets of developing as a group. Like iteration planning, bug tracking, and...

1 replies - 5516 views - 11/07/08 by sarajo in News

CFArgument: Object Oriented Programming

Peter Bell and I continue our ongoing CFArgument series, this time debating the merits of using object oriented development in ColdFusion (see prior debates...

1 replies - 1847 views - 11/06/08 by Brian Rinaldi in News

Language Specialization

Didn't you just totally sell out? -- Obie Fernandez @ Rails Summit Latin AmericaObie and I are good friends. He wasn't trying to insult me. I was talking about...

5 replies - 6238 views - 10/30/08 by Jay Fields in News

Possibly The Best Way To Be A Great Programmer: Be Brain-Healthy!!

I was watching a television show on PBS (viewer-sponsored educational public broadcasting) about brain health. The speaker was Daniel G. Amen, author of the...

6 replies - 7999 views - 10/28/08 by Jon Davis in News