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By Simon Pascal Klein 22nd Jun 2011 HTML CSS, Podcast, Usability Inspiration 1 Hello again and welcome to episode eight of the Design Festival podcast. This week with web standards advocate and champion Derek Featherstone of FurtherAhead​.com and most notably WebStandards​.org. Derek is a teacher, speaker, writer, developer, designer, and […]

This is part three of an ongoing series. You may wish to read or review the previous sections on iOS Development Basics and iOS Apps with Tasty UI. As the series goes on, we’re going to develop an application called “Orny”. We didn’t really explain it last article, but in […]

Google has stressed the importance of quality content on multiple occasions. In May they published a blog post titled “More guidance on building high-quality websites” where they outlined what counts as high-quality content. Some of the advice: Are the topics driven by genuine interests of readers of the site, or […]

Sometimes the functionality of a library or set of classes that you’re working with is 99% perfect for the job, but the last 1% requires modification of some of the core assumptions made in the code. Altering code can cause maintenance frustrations down the track and extending code can cause […]

Episode 112 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of regular hosts Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Brad Williams (@williamsba), Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy), and guest Josh Catone (@catone) from Mashable. The panel discuss Cisco’s predictions for the future of internet traffic, applications being taken for […]

Have you ever had a prospect tell he doesn’t need to market his business because he has more business than he can handle? Did you believe him? “I already have more business than I can handle” is one of the most common blow-offs you’ll hear when prospecting. The trouble is […]

In my previous WordPress posts we discovered how to create a plugin, change the administration panel branding, and remove unnecessary dashboard widgets and meta boxes. In this post, we’ll make some fundamental changes to the main administration menu. If you haven’t created an initial plugin, please read the first part. […]

For the last couple of weeks I have been (somewhat excessively) excited about an idea that I’ve been cooking up for a Twitter competition, and the time has come to let it loose on the world. The basic premise is to get you to tell us what you’d like to […]

Last week I came across an excellent presentation from the Scotland Ruby Conference: “Literary Criticism for the Idle Programmer” by Roland Swingler. It introduced me to a crazy little ruby script that allows you to write programs entirely in underscores! # hello.rb require "_" ____ _ _____ ____ __ ____ […]