Archive for August 27th, 2009

Group votes to relax Web naming rules

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(CNN) — A group charged with overseeing the development of the Internet voted Thursday to relax the rules on Web site naming conventions — potentially triggering a virtual domain name gold rush to rival the dotcom boom of the late 1990s.

How To Market Your Web App

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So after 1 year of fund-raising, planning and development, your shiny new beta web app is finally ready… and now you think it’s marketing time. You want to reach thousands of users as quickly as possible. Aha, you think, the cheapest and shortest path is viral marketing – via blogs and social news sites. [...]

Build Better Pages With Firebug

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Ask web developers to name their desert island Firefox extensions (ignoring for now the improbability of having a laptop while stranded), and they’re bound to put Firebug at or near the top of their lists.

Firebug is a web development tool for tweaking CSS, debugging JavaScript and more. In part, it’s like juiced-up “view source” for [...]

IE8 development: Microsoft should learn from Apple, Mozilla

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Internet Explorer 8 is set to be Microsoft’s most standards compliant browser ever. After originally stating that IE8 would default to the same noncompliant behavior exhibited by IE7, Microsoft relented and plumped for standard-by-default. The first beta of IE8 was released in March and it did indeed default to standards compliance. Web developers have been [...]

Top 10 Web Developer Libraries

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I decided to make a list of the top libraries that I have come across or that I personally use. Libraries can be a web developers best friend. They are great resources to learn from and can save hours and hours of time. These libraries include JavaScript, Ajax, Colors, PHP, and CSS. These should be [...]