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Javascript, Dash, Google and our future as Web Developers

seangw — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:25:18 +0000

Dart, is an alternative language to Javascript being developed by Google. Web developers live in an ever changing world of languages, browsers, development kits, and platforms. The recent introduction, and popularity, of “App” development has introduced a serious competitor to the open web. Our world as web developers is about to change. Presumably in October [...]

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Brower Market Share: Chrome at 10.7%, IE 6 at 12.03% – Companies upgrading from IE6

seangw — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:00:59 +0000

ConceivablyTech has done a good job summarizing the data from NetMarketShare. From The Third Double-Digit Browser: Chrome Blasts Past 10%: Google’s Chrome had another successful month and ended 2010 with 10.70% market share, according to Net Applications and almost 16% according to StatCounter. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer continued to lose market share on a fast pace [...]

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CSS3 and HTML5 For the masses: HTML5Shiv and CSS3 PIE make it possible

seangw — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:30:29 +0000

Everywhere I look on the web (the web developer web that is) is CSS3 this, jQuery that, shadows, HTML5. Such a tease, what about our minimum browser requirements spec? Damn IE6 is yet again 10% of the target demographic. Not only is IE6 the problem, but so is the most recent IE8, as well as [...]

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Software behind Facebook – must read for web developers

seangw — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:33:37 +0000

Saw this link on reddit today, Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world’s largest site: At the scale that Facebook operates, a lot of traditional approaches to serving web content break down or simply aren’t practical. The challenge for Facebook’s engineers has been to keep the site up and running smoothly in spite of handling close [...]

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HTML Zen Coding: Speed up HTML creation

seangw — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:14:20 +0000

HTML Zen Coding is a plugin for many popular HTML editors that gives the web developer many tools for quickly building out HTML pages. If you are comfortable (and enjoy) CSS selectors popular today in many frameworks (such as jQuery) then this may be for you. When we build HTML documents, we are always building [...]

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Web Developers: How to test Flash disabled versions of pages

seangw — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:11:13 +0000

To test, on your machine, what it would look like for someone who doesn’t have flash (iPhone / iPad) or has flash disabled (some ultra sensitive geek), do the following: Launch Firefox Tools ->Add-ons Scroll down to “Shockwave Flash” Click on “Disable” Refresh or Load the page You can do this in other browsers, I [...]

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Quick Tip: Delete Temporary Internet Files / Clear Cache – Shortcut Keys in IE8

seangw — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:54:26 +0000

Web developers have to refresh browser caches a lot (if we even have our browsers set to cache) — if you want a quick way to pull up the “Delete Browsing History” screen in IE8: Ctrl+Shift+Delete It’ll pop up, click “Temporary Internet Files” and then “Delete”. It will stop you from having to click into [...]

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Web Developers: Deep linking is critical making alternate iPhone sites

seangw — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:44:14 +0000

It is cool that you “sniff” the end user’s device as iPhone and automatically redirect them to an iPhone friendly format of your website. Don’t automatically redirect them to the home page. If I’m browsing the internet on my iPhone, and click on a link to an article on … say fish … and I’m [...]

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How web developers protect PHP sites from SQL injection attacks

seangw — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:05:11 +0000

Web developers are responsible for writing websites that work today, but also years or even decades from now (though I would argue the average website shouldn’t be left alone for a decade). It can be difficult to protect a website against all future attacks. There is one big one we all have to be prepared [...]

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Software Developers: Better and worse, a big difference

seangw — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:52:26 +0000

In my days as a web developer I’ve probably worked with about 100 other developers. Every team I’ve been on, I always knew who would (correctly) pump out bug after bug, and who would sit with a single bug for weeks. Think of the slowest developer you know. They usually are reluctant to learn new [...]

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