Designers these days tend to rely on ‘the cloud’ as much as they rely on their desktop applications. This means they turn to Web Apps and Google whenever possible. It’s often cheaper, faster and more useful to work this way, especially for the little guys who may not have access to all the …
June 2008
I was recently mucking around with some new web hosts trying to find one that offered advanced features that most others don’t (specifically Subversion, Rails and Django support so if you have any leads please share). While I was doing this I began to notice that most web host companies employ godawful design schemas, …
The article “5 Myths of Web 2.0” by The Drama 2.0 Show explains it best: Even if the cost of building Web 2.0 products is cheap, effectively distributing them in the marketplace is a significant challenge because of the competition… Proponents of the notion that Web 2.0 businesses are cheap to build fail to distinguish [...]
Most PHP developers have at least heard of GD2; thanks to its prolific use in CAPTCHA generation, the image functions in PHP are standard practice for many. But the extension’s uses don’t end there. After the fold, here are eight cool things you probably weren’t aware could be done with GD2, and might be useful [...]

Being the primary monetization tool for most blogs and other websites, it’s imperative to get the most out of Adsense. While it’s good to read up on other people’s strategies, sometimes it’s nice to hear it, er… straight from the horse’s mouth. Google has recently come out with a video for Adsense optimization and I [...]
This week, Paris is playing host to a meeting that may change the face of the Internet as we know it. The international nonprofit group ICANN will vote on (and likely pass) new procedures in assigning new generic Top Level Domains or gTLDs. The move is a response to the Internet’s massive growth that threatens [...]
As PHP applications grow in size and complexity of structure, developers often find themselves putting together a “deployment plan” – that is, a set of steps to go through each time they want to take the code and package, deploy or test it. This process could involve creating some deployment-specific configuration files, packaging up the [...]
The results of a recent study suggest that women are less likely to share their work online than men. Now before you cry ‘sexist’, these were actual results of a study and the women involved actually expressed trepidation about embracing the collaborative aspects of web. Men are overrepresented online when it comes to sharing creative [...]


