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View Your Web Pages in Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer Browsers

Tweet“How many times have you had to debug your web pages on virtual or multiple machines running different versions of Internet Explorer? Or had to wait for a slow web service to return renderings... 
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How to be a Software Program Manager

Tweet“Having a good program manager is one of the secret formulas to making really great software. And you probably don’t have one on your team, because most teams don’t. Charles Simonyi, the... 
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Who’s Your Coding Buddy?

Tweet“Busy practitioners are sometimes reluctant to spend time examining a colleague’s work. You might be leery of a coworker who asks you to review his code. Does he lack confidence? Does... 
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10 Free CAPTCHA Scripts and Services

Tweet“In the past days I received several requests from my readers to suggest some CAPTCHA scripts and services quickly to embed into a web page. This post proposes a list of ten interesting scripts... 
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Coding Sexy CSS Stylesheets

Tweet“While CSS can be used to create sexy websites, writing CSS can actually be an artform by itself. The way in which CSS is created, structured, and maintained can be a thing of beauty.” From... 
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An Introduction to Refactoring (in PHP)

Tweet“Code refactoring is not to be confused with code optimization. Code optimization is a completely different ball game, where the goal is to run the program as fast as possible by using as few... 
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How to Create a Blog with Twitter, Search, and RSS

Tweet“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... 
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Top 100 Software Engineering Books, Ever

TweetJurgen Appelo has a Knol page with his list of the best software engineering books. It’s got some things old and some things new. My favorite software books tend to focus on teams, how they... 
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Integrating Information Architecture Deliverables in a Web Application Development Methodology

Tweet“The user experience team members learned to speak the same language by collectively discussing our ways of working and our deliverables. This process started... 
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The Danger of Commenting Out Code

Tweet“The Broken Window Theory proposes the idea that if we do one bad thing in our code (i.e. break a window) then it becomes more likely that the next person who encounters that code will do something... 
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How to Reward Job Performance?

Tweet“Noah’s case was only the most dramatic example of a question that has long intrigued me: How do you pay employees based on performance when performance is so hard to quantify? The very... 
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A Visit with Alan Kay

Tweet“Let’s say the adoption of programming languages has very often been somewhat accidental, and the emphasis has very often been on how easy it is to implement the programming language rather... 
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The Most Important Thing to Understand About New Products and Startups

Tweet“In my mind, there’s really two points. One: You can take the smartest, most experienced, most connected, most brilliant people in the world and have them build the most stunningly designed... 
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Google Releases Web Browser Security Handbook

Tweet“Browsers have garnered renewed scrutiny from security researchers in recent years. In 2007, computer-science students at Stanford University found a way to bypass the same-origin policy in... 
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Martian Headsets: Internet Explorer 8 and the Problem of Web Standards

Tweet“If you’ve ever visited the ultra-orthodox Jewish communities of Jerusalem, all of whom agree in complete and utter adherence to every iota of Jewish law, you will discover that despite... 
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Why are the Microsoft Office File Formats so Complicated? (And some workarounds)

Tweet“Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file. But wait, that’s... 
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Nifty Navigation with CSS

Tweet“Unless you limit yourself to one-page web sites, you’ll need to design navigation. In fact, navigation is among the most important parts of any web design, and requires a great deal of... 
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Fixing Your Website Designs For Internet Explorer 7

Tweet“It’s the day we’ve all been waiting for! After five years without changes to the rendering engine that defines (and limits) what the Web can do, Microsoft has released IE7 Beta... 
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How To Do Basic Search Engine Optimization for Web Pages

TweetWhen a prospect or customer uses Google to find a product or service you offer, ideally you want your web pages to appear in the top 10 search results. There are many excellent articles online that... 
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Road Test: Four Databases Tested

Tweet“Databases are by no means an easy product category to understand. Many of the big players now offer free or “light” versions of their databases, but comparing them all is no easy... 
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