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Friday, March 12th, 2010
Last week I was on a “Measuring Success” panel at PR+MKTG camp in Seattle. Someone from the audience asked if there were any tools for a newbie to start measuring PR & Marketing efforts and learning. I uttered the names a few tools that came to my mind.
By: Anil Batra in SEO, Site Navigation, Web Development
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
This is weird. I have Mac OS X Snow Leopard (specifically 10.6.2) running on my MacBook and want to install Quicktime Pro for some video work. I bought a license key off the Apple site but it says to go to the System Preferences and enter the data into the Quicktime preference pane. But, um, [...]
By: Dave Taylor in Apple, Mac
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
After a bit of radio silence, Scotch on the Rocks is back with a bang this year and it’s coming up soon, just a month after cf.Objective()! Scotch hits TigerTiger in London on May 24th and 25th.
By: Sean Corfield in ColdFusion
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Anyone who’s been involved in web development for any length of time has likely encountered the Developers VS Users situation. It’s a mistake that can often lead to expensive problems down the road. So what exactly is the problem? And how can you spot it–and solve it–before it derails you project and causes you to [...]
By: Michael Gray in Web Development
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Recently, there has been a lot of debate in the search engine marketing community about some of the more simple or basic elements of search engine optimization, a web page’s meta tags. When I refer to meta tags, I am specifically talking about the meta description tag and the meta keywords tag. Combined with the [...]
By: Bill Hartzer in SEO, Web Development
Friday, March 5th, 2010
This is not a trick question, but more of a pushback on the recent FUD that various people have been spreading. Quotes such as ‘HTML5 video uses 10% CPU while Flash uses 100%’ were both unprofessional and not backed up by any actual data. The short answer to the above question could in fact be [...]
By: Stefan Richter in Flash, Web Development
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
As you almost surely know by now – it seems like ABC has been running at least ad per commercial break – it’s about time for the Oscars, where the best movies, actors, and behind-the-scenes people are recognized. And some database experts have been acknowledged, too, as the 2010 CODiE Awards finalists for “Best Database [...]
By: Doug Caverly in Awards, Database
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
404 errors, dead pages, bad links, whatever you like to call them are a great way to increase your bounce rate, decrease your online revenues and make you look sloppy. This form of conversion suicide can be corrected by monitoring your site well to make sure that you are not contributing to the probability of [...]
By: Josh McCoy in SEO, Web Development
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Swing Buttons provides many exclusive features that are not found in the Button class defined in the AWT package. Swing Buttons are the subclass of AbstractButton class,which extends JComponent. You can always associate an icon of your choice with a Swing Button. The Icons are set as program runs or set when some event is [...]
By: Vaibhav Pandey in Java, Web Development
Monday, March 1st, 2010
If you’ve had extensive design courses or are just a newbie designer, chances are you’ve dealt with, in some form or fashion, white space. Also known as negative space, it is the break in composition that can be found in photography, illustration and printed type. Negative space allows for places of rest for the eye [...]
By: Mark Rivera in Design