New Issue: Review of ‘Website Optimization’ and Are Accessibility Statements Useful?
Posted on Nov 12, 2008 07:11:11 AM
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Tags: Accessibility, Issue, Optimization, Review, Statements, Useful, WebsiteNew Issue: Environment Effects and a Review of “Web Form Design”
Posted on Aug 6, 2008 09:08:27 AM
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Extremely, Digital Web’s specific Matthew Pennell reviews Debate: Lattice Type Model by means of Luke Wroblewski plus gives it towering absurd marks. While divers strength count something provocative from a representation belief enjoy LukeW, “Web Ilk Design” takes tangle forms isolated out of range blow out of the water practices add-on turns it attracted a solid outing of how to representation en route for users.
Tags: Design, Effects, Environment, Form, Issue, ReviewBook Review: High Performance Web Sites
Posted on Nov 25, 2007 01:54:31 AM
After blogging a couple of weeks ago about a forthcoming Apress book on performance from a couple of Yahoo! employees, what should fall into my lap this week but another book on website performance—by yet another Yahoo! engineer. But, this is not just any Y! hacker—Steve Souders is the man behind the YSlow Firefox/Firebug plugin, and project lead for Yahoo!’s recent widescale overhaul of the performance of their front-end websites. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Book, High, Performance, Review, SitesReview: CodeIgniter for Rapid PHP Application Development
Posted on Oct 17, 2007 09:59:12 PM
Frameworks have become a hot topic in the world of web development. Their popularity stems from the notion of “convention over configuration,” automating mundane tasks so you can focus on more unique and exciting aspects of a project. One such PHP framework is CodeIgniter, an open-source project by EllisLab, the company behind the popular CMSExpressionEngine. CI is an abstraction of the code that drives EE.
CI’s Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Application, CodeIgniter, Development, Rapid, ReviewReview: Pro JavaScript Design Patterns
Posted on Oct 9, 2007 09:39:06 AM
Back in 2006, I made a New Year’s Resolution to improve my JavaScript abilities. I failed miserably.
That year was an explosion of enthusiasm for Ajax methodologies, but looking under the hood of Flickr, A9 and Google Maps was intimidating for a barely-literate scripter like myself—JavaScript seemed to have morphed into a totally new language. With effort, I got a bit of a traction in DOM scripting, but faced resistance Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Design, JavaScript, Patterns, ReviewBook Review: Bulletproof Ajax
Posted on May 20, 2007 01:53:08 AM
DOM Scripting author and bon vivant Jeremy Keith returns to the shelves of your local bookshop with his second book, Bulletproof Ajax—and despite its narrow scope, it’s a worthy addition to your collection.
The first thing that you realize is that, at barely two hundred pages, this book is slim. While the techniques may indeed be bulletproof, you could probably tear the book in two with your bare hands. In comparison Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Ajax, Book, Bulletproof, ReviewReview: Building Findable Websites
Posted on May 11, 2007 09:44:56 AM
If you’ve ever tried to sell a client on the benefits of web standards—or even more specialized features such as microformats—the chances are that at some point you’ve promised improved search engine rankings. But have you ever had anything concrete upon which to base your claims? The promised land of web standards was one of immediate search engine benefits, but in the years since adoption Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Building, Findable, Review, WebsitesBook Review: Beginning Rails
Posted on Nov 3, 2006 08:28:06 PM
As a card-carrying member of the web-standards blogosphere, I somehow feel a little odd holding a book that is not published by friends of ED or New Riders (and, what's more, doesn't have a foreword by either Andy Budd or Dave Shea)—but when one ventures into the world of back-end coding, one has to give up certain safety blankets and pick up more serious-looking books.
As a freelance web developer, I've long had Ruby on Rails Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Beginning, Book, Rails, ReviewBook Review: The Myths of Innovation
Posted on Oct 26, 2006 04:32:10 AM
Web professionals are well aware that we live in an age marked by an ever-increasing rate of innovation and change. Within the tech industry, we witness the endless buzz about the newest technological innovation of the week. Outside the tech industry, business publications trip over each other to cover the next innovative gadget, business model, leader, or workspace. With such wide-ranging use of the word innovation, how does it relate Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Book, Innovation, Myths, ReviewProduct Review: SumoSac
Posted on Oct 12, 2006 03:02:24 AM
Once again Sumo Lounge has launched another ingenious product: the SumoSac (super size bean bag). I received a SumoSac couple weeks ago for product review and I gotta tell you, it is one of the most comfortable bean-bag chair I have ever sat in. The SumoSac is a large suede sac filled with shredded furniture grade urethane foam. In addition to its comfort, the Sumosac is stylish and practical. The size of the sac is more than Read the rest of this entry »
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