Archive for Web Development

IE8 development: Microsoft should learn from Apple, Mozilla

Web Development on August 27th, 2009 No Comments

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

Web Development on August 27th, 2009 No Comments

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 [...]

Building Web 2.0: A Case Study for Simply Fired’s Redesign

Web Development on August 26th, 2009 No Comments

So today the Media Crumb team, with the help of Simply Hired’s Ops team, launched Simply Fired.com into the wide open space of the web. It was a two month long process for MC and something we really enjoyed working on. It is not often that a design & development firm can say they have [...]

Printing the Web: Solutions and Techniques

Web Development on August 26th, 2009 No Comments

Users don’t read, they scan. In fact, after many years, reading online still didn’t manage to assert itself against reading offline. Therefore long articles are usually printed out and read on paper. However, not every page will be printed out correctly by default – sometimes layout doesn’t fit, sometimes font size isn’t chosen properly or [...]

15 Things Every Web Developer Should Be Thankful For

Web Development on August 26th, 2009 No Comments

With Thanksgiving only a couple days away, it’s appropriate to look back on the things that we appreciate best about our jobs. Let’s face it: Web Developers have the best jobs around, right? We’re incredibly lucky to have the professions we do.

The Linux Advantage in Web Hosting

Web Development on August 26th, 2009 No Comments

Web hosting has always been a good place to find Linux servers — often coupled with other popular open source software such as Apache Web servers — but Spin Magazine’s recent move to Rackspace Managed Hosting illustrates the upsurge in choices for Linux hosting support, which is at the heart of the deal between the [...]

80 AJAX solutions that are excellent and usefull

Web Development on August 26th, 2009 No Comments

AJAX Solutions can be used by web developers to create amazing applications. Dozens of projects, even Gmail, made with AJAX provide new interactivity for applications that can have enhanced user functionality. Using AJAX, better, faster, more flexible web solutions are available. AJAX is the first step toward web applications of the future.

Safari 4: Eye candy, or seriously useful?

Web Development on August 26th, 2009 No Comments

Despite the fact that I use Macs, I’ve never been a big fan of Safari, Apple’s browser. It doesn’t always properly view some of the Web pages I use regularly, and it has what I consider odd interface quirks.
For example, if you prefer not to see underlined links, there’s no checkbox for that option in [...]

Discussing PHP Frameworks: What, When, Why and Which?

Web Development on August 26th, 2009 No Comments

What is a PHP Framework?
PHP is the world’s most popular scripting language for many different reasons – flexibility, ease-of-use, among others – but often times coding in PHP, or any language for that matter, can get rather monotonous and repetitive. That’s where a PHP framework can help.

HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?

Web Development on August 26th, 2009 No Comments

HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX.