Newsletter Archive: 2008

Run Web Applications Natively On Your PC
Google has come up with a technology called Native Client that is related to the open source world! It is specially designed for website developers to execute rich code in a faster way within the browser… "At its core, our release consists of a runtime, a browser plugin, and a set of GCC-based [GNU Compiler Collection] compilation tools. Together, these components make it possible to build applications that run in a web browser but incorporate native code modules." -Google

Date:2008-12-10


Do Developers Need To Remodel Their Strategies?
What comes to your mind if you ever think of the future of software prices?Experts have often predicted that software in the future will be available for free. One would need to pay just for the support. Brian Gardner's famous WP themes is just an example! This would result in the reduction in business profits of millions of software developers across the globe.

Date:2008-12-03


Today's customers demand payment options
Accepting all debit & credit cards including; VISA, MasterCard, American Express and Discover

Date:2008-12-01


Why invest more than one Premium Domain Name?
Tough economic times call for small businesses to get creative. Here is why you should consider implementing a multi-domain strategy for your business.

Date:2008-11-19


9 Proven Techniques to Double Your Sales
This book is a powerhouse of information! Information that will grow your company quickly and profitably. The same techniques and tactics in this book have been used by hundreds of companies to easily double, and even triple their current sales. The book is free, but could be worth thousands, or even millions to your bottom line!

Date:2008-11-17


Similarities Of Outsourcing & Open-Source
Open-Source community and Outsourcing are poles apart, but the most striking thing they have in common is the dependence on their modes of communication. The Open-Source development communities rely more on the asynchronous modes of communication such as e-mails, online forums, discussion sites, bug trackers as compared to the synchronous modes of communication such as phones, chats etc. used by Outsourcing personnel.

Date:2008-11-12


The Great October Crash
"The Great October Crash 08" is one of the most important events for all economists and financiers across the globe to study and understand the implications on various other sectors of businesses. There are tough times ahead for all businesses and the rock bottom world economy isn't also helping the cause.

Date:2008-10-30


How To Stop Google Translator
There are official specifications for the HTML language which are provided by the World Wide Web consortium. And then there's more spontaneous additions to the language which are not part of the HTML specs (though they may or may not validate as HTML).

Date:2008-10-15


Issues With Crawling Your Website
Online Marketing Blog has always been about more than search engine optimization, covering digital public relations, social media marketing and plenty of other internet marketing topics. And yet, SEO is a core component of nearly every thing we do in our consulting practice.

Date:2008-10-08


How To Put A Digg Button On Your Blog
Believe it or not there is a right way and a wrong way to do this. Most wordpress blog templates use the content tag on the main index page, meaning it shows full posts unless you use a more tag. If you use a more tag it will truncate the post at that tag and give you a link to read the full article.

Date:2008-09-24


What Do Organizations And Developers Need?
Monday I walked through Sourceforge end-users' needs, trying to figure out how Sourceforge might travel to accommodate their needs. Today we'll look at what organizations and developers might want, keeping a closer eye on competitors' offering and how to possibly stay ahead of them.

Date:2008-09-03


Get Your Website On Page 1 Organically
This sponsored session was an entry level overview of what websites should be doing on their website to get visibility and rankings in search engines. Here are the 7 Proven Ways to get Your Website on Page 1 Organically & then Convert as stated by the presenter Shawn Moore.

Date:2008-08-20


W3C's Thoughts On Mobile Web Development
As millions of people around the world add web-capable mobile devices to their pockets, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) hopes publishers will adopt its recommendations on mobile web development.

Date:2008-07-31


How To Find Semantic Links On A Website
Imaging a visitor that enters his website URL into a textbox and when he clicks the submit button, you are able to retrieve all kinds of information from the guy. His name, company info, online profiles, interests etc. all this from just a URL.

Date:2008-07-16


Integrative Thinking For The OSS Community
I just finished the third of four week-long residence weeks for school. One more to go and I'll get some semblance of a life back...my wife can't wait. "The Opposable Mind" by Roger Martin was one of the books we had to read as prep for the week. Roger is dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

Date:2008-07-02


Open Source Business Model Problems
I would like to join the the ongoing discussion about open source software business models driven by Matthew Aslett who in turn was answering Savio Rodrigues's post on how to fix the 'broken' open source business model.

Date:2008-06-12


Google Set To Launch App Engine API
Google has introduced its Google App Engine API along with new services for developers. The Google App Engine allows developers to create their web applications based on the engine and operate them through Google, which host the applications and offers storage. The company will launch the service on May 29 at its I/0 developer conference in San Francisco.

Date:2008-05-28


The Harsh Reality Of ASP.NET Developers
You're participating in the stagnation of the World Wide Web and you hold the human race hostage. Ouch, that was a bit harsh, but it probably got your attention. That's important because what I want to address is no laughing matter.

Date:2008-05-07


Don't Be Lazy When Coding
Lately I've been seeing a lot of sites where the designers were a bit lazy on the coding of the visual elements. Especially when it comes to creating new styles for the style sheet. In CSS, it's pretty easy to develop a style that allows you to have certain portions of text display exactly how you want.

Date:2008-04-09


SES New York: Design And Search Engines
Making both humans and machines happy. Ever look at different doctors' bookshelves? There are usually at least two or three books in common, regardless of the professionals' fields or age. This happens because the basics are important, and a session at SES New York returned to the basics of site design.

Date:2008-03-19


Next-Generation Wordpress Theme
I've been talking for months now about the integration of the wonderful Sandbox and the Yahoo User Interface CSS library. Well, I've done it. It's codenamed Vanilla and it's in "closed Alpha" just for now.

Date:2008-02-20


Sideways Movement For Web Standards
There's some really interesting conversation going on about IE8 these days. A List Apart article from Aaron Gustafson. A List Apart article from Eric Meyer. Basically, it sounds like Microsoft took a thrashing when it released IE7, an imperfect but much more standards-compliant browser than IE6, and all those sites that had been built or hacked or conditionally commented to make...

Date:2008-01-30


Cloud Computing Architecture From Salesforce
Salesforce.com today announced Force.com Cloud Computing Architecture. Delivering the power and flexibility of cloud computing to the enterprise, Force.com Cloud Computing Architecture includes a new pay-per-login utility pricing model for the Force.com Platform, and Force.com Development-as-a-Service, a new set of tools and services that will enable enterprise developers to easily harness the promise of cloud computing for application development.

Date:2008-01-17


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