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Should you go Beyond Relational Databases?

24. June 2009

1595Comments2009-06-24+21%3A17%3A04Martin+Kleppmann

Should you go Beyond Relational Databases?

Relational databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and various commercial products, have served us well for many years. Lately, however, there has been a lot of discussion on whether the relational model is reaching the end of its life-span, and what may come after it. Should you care? Which database technology should you be using? Of course the [...]

Six Useful Tips for Web Designers and Developers

10. June 2009

1544Comments2009-06-10+08%3A27%3A53Ryan+Carson

Six Useful Tips for Web Designers and Developers

We’ve compiled six useful tips for all you web designers and developers out there. They cover various topics including: accessibility, SQL, web developer plugins for Firefox, HTML emails, design and jQuery. Feel free to disagree or add your own in the comments below. If you’d like to submit a tip to be considered for future articles, [...]

Six Ways that Google Wave is Going to Change Your Business, Career and Life

3. June 2009

1516Comments2009-06-03+09%3A44%3A54Ryan+Carson

Six Ways that Google Wave is Going to Change Your Business, Career and Life

Google recently announced their most ambitious project to date called Google Wave. According to Google, Wave is “what email would look like if it was invented today.” If you haven’t made time to watch the one hour video, I’d highly recommend you do so today. What’s the big deal? I believe there are six reasons why Wave is [...]

Stack Overflow Dev Days

13. May 2009

1455CommentsStack+Overflow+Dev+Days2009-05-13+18%3A21%3A57Ryan+Carson

We’re really excited to announce a brand new Carsonified event: Stack Overflow Dev Days. It’s a 1-day conference for programmers, in five different cities, and it’s only $99. As you probably know, Joel Spolsky is one of the founders of Stack Overflow and he summarized the event quite well: We decided to cram as many diverse topics [...]

Handy Tips from Tipster

1. May 2009

1286CommentsHandy+Tips+from+Tipster2009-05-01+12%3A03%3A29Ryan+Carson

There have been a ton of helpful and interesting tips posted to Tipster recently, so I thought we’d pull a few out for you all (and give the submitters a bit of well-deserved publicity). Topics that we’re covering are: MySQL, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, JQuery, life hacks and server admin. MySQL Geo Search Here’s a MySQL statement to [...]

Silverlight for PHP Developers

13. March 2009

974CommentsSilverlight+for+PHP+Developers2009-03-13+15%3A00%3A16Mark+Quirk

A Microsoft browser plug-in might seem an odd target for the PHP developer, more used to working with open source platforms such as Linux, Apache and the MySQL database server. However there is much about Microsoft Silverlight that makes it a good match to such technologies. For a start, it is a free download and [...]

40 Web Developers to Follow on Twitter

2. March 2009

994Comments40+Web+Developers+to+Follow+on+Twitter2009-03-02+10%3A00%3A06Ryan+Carson

I’ve been on Twitter since 2006 (@ryancarson) and it’s where I get all my news these days. It’s important to know who to follow in order to get the best advice, tips and news. Here’s a list of the top web developers on Twitter (in no particular order). I’ll also be publishing lists for web designers, [...]

Atlas: Under the Hood

28. February 2009

979CommentsAtlas%3A+Under+the+Hood2009-02-28+21%3A02%3A52Francisco+Tolmasky

At 280 North we’ve been working on a framework called Cappuccino for creating what we like to call desktop class applications. These are not your average web sites, but instead a new breed of web application that aims to replace many of the programs that currently run on your desktop. When we launched 280 Slides, [...]

Web Development is Moving On - Are you?

5. February 2009

793Comments2009-02-05+10%3A52%3A17Christian+Heilmann

It is quite interesting to see how web development turned from a niche for brochure-ware and intranets to one of the biggest software development environments in the market over just a few years. “The web as the platform” is a hollow dream no longer ‐ you can now run and develop a web application without [...]

How to Create an RSS-Enabled, Micro-Blog with Twitter

20. January 2009

780Comments2009-01-20+19%3A59%3A33Ryan+Carson

Have you ever wanted to create a simple multi-person blog, but didn’t want to bother setting up an entire WordPress installation? If so then we’ve got just the answer. By combining Twitter Search, Atom feeds, hash-tags and PHP, you can create an RSS-enabled, micro-blog using Twitter and be up and running in less than 10 [...]

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