Ever setup a demo for a client, only to find you had a syntax error in one of the key files? Or maybe you’ve forgotten to setup the database on the staging server and your boss is staring at a screen of MySQL errors. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to put together a [...]
Fiddler is a request inspector, form tamperer and general debugging proxy for HTTP. Fiddler enables web developers to monitor HTTP requests to their web application, watch request and response headers, tamper with query strings and form values, collect statistics and even rebuild and send new requests. It has inbuilt HTTPS support using a middle-man approach, [...]
.!.Web applications are the commodity to deal in on the internet these days but what makes them successful isn’t always their function, often times design plays a huge role. Today I’m taking a look at five apps that exemplify various aspects of great Web App design. Don’t Waste Space In the early days of the [...]
One critical factor many new start-ups forget is that half of creating a successful web app is making sure that its well designed and easy to use. In this part of our series we’ll continue looking at well designed web applications…. 37Signals are like the MVPs of web developers. Not only did the lead developers [...]
Web applications are all the rage these days as cloud computing becomes the standard way of doing things. Whether it’s Facebook apps, Web clients, Flash, Adobe Air Apps or anything else that’s becoming ubiquitous, a huge part of the development of these applications is design and what you an learn from the design of …
Snipplr.com is like del.icio.us for people who write a lot of code. Whether you develop for Ruby or Django, hack WordPress or MovableType, or if you just write XHTML, you probably keep a “Code Diary” full of useful tricks, hacks and hints that you’ve used in past projects. Snipplr exists to let you share …
Although I love design and web development, there are some days when I hit something akin to the writer’s wall. There really are days when I would rather bang my head against the wall than try to conjure up something new an exciting for a new client. I wrote about some places that …
From time to time, Google hosts live chats with webmasters attended by some of their key developers. If anything, this is a great venue to ask that nagging question in your head. The first time this was held was in March 2008, and you can read the details of the successful launch at SEOroundtable.com. As [...]
Extensible Hypertext Markup (XML) has changed the web as we knew it and helped to make websites rich, well designed and fast loading. It’s become an integral part of Web 2.0 that won’t be going away any time soon. So what’s next for CSS? Mozilla and the Opera Software company give us …
Some people look at graphs with blank faces. I happen to study them with a smile, like I did when I still had a cubicle job as a Quality Analyst. Ever since I discovered Google Analytics, I’ve used it religiously to increase traffic for a few niche blogs that I own with reasonable success. Google [...]
