Web Development

April 2008

Well, I personally know loooots of developers who want to put other site’s thumbnails on their site. One of my friends wrote an article on his blog a long ago and I gave the link away to the developers. But that never helped because that is based on some 3rd party API, which is not [...]

The keyword here is “social”. To be able to take advantage of social bookmarking sites, you have to become a part of the community, learn their culture, and use your knowledge to play the game (following the rules, of course). In social media, there are regular users and power users. When regular users submit a [...]

Some days ago I learn the name Presdo from a friend of mine. When I dig more about it on the Internet I found the application is actually initiated by Eric Ly, who was one of a co-founder of LinkedIn. So I could not wait to take a tour of the application. Yes friends, its [...]

Now that you know how to get a ton of traffic from social media, you need to prepare to make the most of it, if and when it happens. Visitors that reach you this way behave differently from people who were directed to your site via search engine, or from a link on another related [...]

Some of us might remember that on 17 May 2006 (loooong ago) Sun Microsystems promised to open the source code of Java. All the java enthusiastic have been waiting till today when James Gosling, vice president and a Sun Fellow sent a letter to the community circulating the awesome news of OpenJDK project. What is [...]

Sometimes, you can actually have a cake and eat it, too. Here are a few free SEO resources for the earnest beginner, and those that just want to brush up their skills. SEO Guides Search Engine Dictionary – A lexicon of search engine terms, and a useful reference while you wade through the sea of [...]

One thing many of my young designer friends tend to forget is that being self-taught, fast learning and full of raw talent is no guarantee for steady work. I should know because I consider myself many of those things yet for a while when I began freelancing I couldn’t get clients to save my …

I thought about the question long ago when I first saw Mozilla’s Project Songbird. That was little crappy (when it was BETA), but that application worked. I used the application to find lots of Pink Floyd rare music collection. Then I forgot about the application almost for a year. Today I saw …

Remember when you used to play Street Fighter at the arcade and you would time that Hadouken just right to counter an attack from that jackass who wouldn’t stop throwing you around? Well, just like a video game Photoshop is chock-full of secret key combinations that will have your clients and peers asking “How …

Whether you want to automate tedious tasks, customize commands, or add new features, scripting takes the world of Photoshop to another level. In this tutorial I’ll make you aware of what scripts are capable, where to find them, how to edit them and how to use them. Eventually I’ll follow up with how …