Feature Story: Poll: What Makes a Computer a Computer?
Smartphones can do a whole range of computing tasks these days, from email to web browsing, to managing your calendar, to taking photos. With all those capabilities under the hood, are smartphones really computers? Read more…
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IE's Decline Makes 'Cross Browser' More Relevant
Four years ago, 9 out of ever 10 web user connected with Internet Explorer. Today, though, IE has started to tumble due to better alternatives like Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. That means developing for multiple browsers is extremely important. Read more…
Web Applications Reset the Playing Field
As software apps move to the cloud, once dominant leaders will be challenged by new upstarts. SaaS resets the playing field and erases established desktop leaders from the conversation, leaving room for new competitors. Read more…
It Was a Good Idea for the AFP to Turn Off RSS
How many of the top 100 American newspapers use RSS? If you guessed "all of them," you'd be right. So why, then, would the AFP, one of the largest news agencies in the world, turn off public RSS feeds on its web site? Read more…
OpenID Needs to Start Getting Real
It seems like the OpenID Foundation might be spending too much time on organizational details and not enough time on execution, a mistake they can ill afford to make with Facebook Connect out there now. Read more…
What's On Tap: Predictions for 2009
It's that time of the year again: time to look ahead to 2009 and try to guess what's in store for the world of web technology and web business. We make eight prognostications in this post, but be sure to share your own guesses! Read more…
The Top 15 Web Tech Stories of 2008
2008 was an eventful year on the web. From Yahoo! spurning Microsoft to Google launching both a browser and a cell phone (sort of), there was a lot to write about this year. Here are our picks for the top 15 web tech stories of 2008. Read more…
Top Ruby Frameworks Rails and Merb Join Forces
It's not every day that two essentially competing web development frameworks decide to merge and join forces. However, that's what happened today, when Ruby on Rails announced that it would be joining forces with the up-and-coming Merb framework. Read more…
Design
Feature Story: The Role of Design in Modern Church Marketing
If you've visited any CSS gallery sites lately, you may have noticed that church web sites are popping up all over the place, with designs ranging from cliched grunge to classic and refined. Being Christmas, Darren decided it was a good time to explore just what went into creating an online presence for a spiritual organization. Read more…
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Feature Story: SVG Is The Future Of Application Development
The support for SVG in browsers is slowly gaining momentum, to the point where fully fledged SVG applications with rich interfaces akin to desktop applications are just around the corner. With the ability to integrate semantic markup languages like HTML and RDFa, argues Meitar, why wouldn't we use SVG for application development? Read more…
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Feature Story: SitePoint Podcast #5: The Principles of Successful Freelancing
In case you hadn't noticed, a while ago we decided to start The SitePoint Podcast, a weekly news and chat show for web developers. Episode 5 has just been published, featuring special guest Miles Burke, author of The Principles of Successful Freelancing. Check it out! Read more…
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