APIs & Plug-ins
Audio Interview: Nicholas C. Zakas, JavaScript Performance Guru and Author
Nicholas C. Zakas is a certifiable web geek and web software engineer who specializes in user interface design and implementation. Zakas currently...
Interview with Ian Hickson on the HTML 5 Specification
HTML 5 is a promising specification that codifies many existing implementations and features, like Apple's Canvas, and introduces native support for video, web workers to run JavaScript in a separate thread, and improved SVG APIs, to name some. ...
Mobile Internet Devices to Drive More Fluid Designs
As more mobile Internet devices become available, web designers and developers may turn to fluid designs and controls to compensate for radically different screen sizes and capabilities. In just the last few months, computer and mobile phone ...
Where Progressive Enhancement Meets Graceful Degradation
Two important web development philosophies are often at odds when it comes to using new or advanced technologies and supporting older browsers or low bandwidth connections. But as is the case with many polemic arguments, the best practice may resi...
December Top 10: The Posts You Don't Want to Miss
The year is coming to a close and—with luck—you'll leave work early, head to the local pub, and get ready to ring in the new year. But, if you are sitting at your desk trying to look busy, here are ten articles you will want to check out. These t...
Win a Free Book: The Art of SEO
Search engine optimization is vital to website and web application development, and this seminal book, The Art of SEO, is from four of the industry's leading experts. It makes an excellent resource for business-minded ecommerce developers. Ecom...
Book Review: The Art of SEO
Search engine optimization is, perhaps, one of the most important considerations when planning a new website or a new web application. And yet, it is often perplexing to both web developers and marketers. A new book from four of the industry’s be...
No Public Beta for Flash Professional CS5
Adobe announced that it will not be releasing a public beta of the highly anticipated Flash Professional CS5, as had been previously stated. In October, Adobe gave the development community a sneak peak at the forthcoming Flash Professional CS5 s...
Google Speaks to Developers at I/O 2010
Google's largest developer event, Google I/O, returns to San Francisco in 2010, with the promise of giving web developers a glimpse of what’s to come from one of the Internet’s most influential companies. Professional web developers that want th...
Google and Facebook Introduce Short URL Services
Google and Facebook both introduced URL shortening services, similar to bit.ly and TinyURL, this week. These new shortening services are currently aimed at the respective company’s own products, but should still be of interest to web developers, p...
W3C Seeks CEO
The Internet’s leading collaborative open standards organization, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is seeking a new chief executive officer to “lead the organization in changing times.” Former W3C CEO Steven R. Bratt stepped down in June. Wh...
Augmented Reality Can Enhance Online Shopping
Augmented reality allows ecommerce businesses to create compelling new online shopping experiences and gives savvy developers a new profit-generating technology to offer clients. What is Augmented Reality? Augmented reality (AR) refers to any s...
Employment Turnover: Are You Going To Jump Ship?
In October, the U.S. unemployment rate reached a 10.2 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. IT professionals, including web developers and designers, were among those looking for work. In spite of the instability, many industry obser...
Audio Interview: Rick D'Ambrosio, Ecommerce Manager at Crucial.com
Crucial.com is a leading computer memory retailer, providing high-quality memory upgrades, and earning top customer service honors for more than a ...
Audio Interview: Michael Vax, Chief Technology Officer at Elastic Path
Elastic Path is an enterprise ecommerce platform provider with an impressive track record. The company has more than 200 customers worldwide, inclu...
Google Still Rules Search
Google sites still lead the market in search queries in the third quarter, in spite of considerable growth from Microsoft sites since the launch of Bing. Actually Google sites handled 64.9 percent of 13.8 billion core searches originating in the ...
Authorize.Net Launches Upgraded Development Center
Authorize.Net's new development center should be a resource for freelance and agency web developers to increase revenue opportunities. It speeds integration with Authorize.Net, a leading payment gateway, and eases troubleshooting and encourages co...