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Balsamiq – Wireframes and mockups tool

May 24, 2010

A great tool for creating fast site and other device mock ups.

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Why are Web Applications Superior to their Desktop counterparts?

December 15, 2009

No need for an install or to ship updates The application lives in the cloud and is centrally managed, when you launch the application you will always have the latest version. This leads to a single point for updates and fixes with the user receiving the updated version the next time they use the application. [...]

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Accessibility and Flash – Make sure you add a HTML version of the Site

December 9, 2009

Here are some of the usability and data accessibility issues with Flash. You can’t select, copy, or paste any text. Your browser’s font override features won’t work, so you can’t adjust the font or its size to be more readable. Your browser’s built-in in-page search won’t work you can’t use the keyboard to scroll through [...]

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Flash IE6 and SSL Issues

October 20, 2009

Flash or data within flash not loading in IE6? Just change the following headers in code

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When is open source and standardization right?

March 12, 2009

Standardization is essential for certain parts of the stack, those items that change least frequently i.e lower in the stack. Higher in the stack needs to change frequently and here standardization kills innovation.  We need to remember it take a lot of time to get to a standard and also Open Source will always be [...]

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GIT – Version Control

February 25, 2009

I am currently looking into GIT, I have previously used CVS and our current repository of choice is Subversion.  view a Comparison against Subversion. Git is… Git is an open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Every Git clone is a full-fledged [...]

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Amazon CloudFront – Replacing the content database

November 18, 2008

Amazon launch of Cloudfront, a tightly integrated content delivery service built over their S3 offering promises content delivery routed to the nearest edge location, giving optimal performance to the content user. This extension to S3 should get the content management system (CMS) providers and companies such as Akamai thinking. The service will allow the database [...]

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Chinese characters appearing incorrectly in Excel when generated by an ASP.Net page

November 15, 2008

We recently launched a site that required an excel download to be generated with complex and simplified Chinese characters. In producing this we had issues presenting the Chinese – they would come out as garbage. It was strange as if you saved in notepad and re-opened in excel it would be fine, so the problem [...]

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