Tips n Tricks

It is a well established performance best practice for a web page to minimize the number of HTTP requests it makes for assets like images, javascript files and stylesheets. In fact, its Rule #1 on Steve Souders High Performance Web Sites. In the latest version of Rails, these practices are […]

By Mark Cipolla 13th Jul 2011 General Tutorial 6 The designer’s toolset seems to be always expanding. Long gone are the days when a web designer could rely solely on an HTML editor and Photoshop. Now, especially when working in a team with developers, you need to work smarter and more collaboratively. […]

Whenever you read about Android development, you’ll see the word Activity pop up all the time. In this article, we’ll explain what Activities are, and how they relate to Tasks, Processes and the Back Stack running on the phone. Activities An activity is a visual component that you see on […]

By Jennifer Farley 11th Jul 2011 Logo Design Inspiration 8 Although a bit behind the times (admittedly this whole debacle unfolded back in January), following much controversy and some verbal fisticuffs, US chat show host Jay Leno is returning to his late night show slot which has been vacated by […]

I’ve been on Twitter a number of years now, and every six months or so, I get fed up with some of the people I follow, and go through a purge, where I crop back a number of people I follow, so my stream becomes more relevant and spam-free for […]

This is the second article in a series about database automation with triggers and events. A trigger is SQL code which is run just before or just after an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE event occurs on a particular database table. Triggers have been supported in MySQL since version 5.0.2. Our […]

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For us solo operators, it’s easy to get caught up (or bogged down) in work and never take a step back to see what we’re actually achieving. Here in Australia, we’ve just started a new financial year, which makes now a good time to do a little progress review. All […]

You might remember we recently had a look at Pinned Sites with Internet Explorer 9 and Windows 7. A comment about that functionality in a recent Craig Buckler article set me to thinking. Craig said “There are some good features but I doubt many developers will have the time or […]