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Do you find yourself listening to your ipod while commuting to work or school? Make that time more productive by subscribing to the feeds in iTunes University. Today’s lecture for me was the Future of the Internet, by Stanford professor Ramesh Johari. I haven’t found any that discuss the nitty gritty of coding, but it [...]

The Yahoo! exceptional performance team has released a series of best practice rules for making your site perform significantly faster. Fortunately, the majority of fixes can be handled by any developer. #2 however seems a bit outside the budget of most developers… until now
2: Use a Content Delivery Network
Let’s say you have a small site [...]

I’m having issues right now with Wordpress. The problem isn’t lack of documentation, it’s the lack of current and consistent information that is driving me crazy.
Wordpress 2.2x introduced functionality to choose a page as the static home page. This feature fixed the need for several plugins and hacks.

Create a page in your Wordpress Admin [...]

Bill Scott gave an interesting lecture today at Yahoo! about AJAX design patterns. He explained how good AJAX designs keep the user’s attention on the page, remove roadblocks, and increase stickiness to a site.
Patterns of successful AJAX behaviors are beginning to appear (Netflix, 37Signals, Yahoo!). There are subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, changes [...]

I hate dealing with CSS-based layouts. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying I’d rather use tables. It’s just that I don’t relish the idea of fussing with the hacks, negative margins, floats, and more to get the page looking good in all browsers.
This problem was solved a few years ago by a series of [...]