January 31, 2008 – 2:41 pm
Have you ever clicked on a link and been surprised with the result? The worse culprit for this I would say is PDF documents.
PDF documents open up the Adobe Reader inside the browser, and most users don’t want this. They usually want to download it to print. Instead this ugly program loads and it takes [...]
January 23, 2008 – 10:45 am
A couple of months ago I was introduced to a web IDE that I had never used before. Of course you have all heard of Dreamweaver and FrontPage but Aptana is different because it is open source and free
Its specialty has developed into AJAX and JavaScript development. JavaScript is one of those few languages that [...]
January 15, 2008 – 10:57 am
I am sure you have all seen the sites that have urls that look similar to books.php?id=4353. A URL like this not very friendly to users or even search engines. No person is going to remember that book number. Along with this search engines do not always properly crawl this.
Wouldn’t books/harry-potter.html make both users and [...]
January 10, 2008 – 8:48 am
MVC which stands for Model-View-Controller is a pattern I have been intrigued with lately. I first got introduced to the concept when I began experimenting with Ruby on Rails. It enforces a separation of responsibility.
The view should not need to know what the database is. It should focus only on what it needs to display [...]
January 3, 2008 – 1:00 am
While I was working on creating this new website, I was again reminded of all the frustration caused by Internet Explorer. It has numerous CSS bugs that sometimes make you pull your hair out. You design a website to perfection in a CSS-savy Firefox, [...]