The desktop is moving to the browser. I don’t mean applications delivered over the internet: Your computer’s desktop will be the browser one day soon.
There is a shift in the model of how the web is built and used. The web is becoming more like the computer desktop every day. This shift is being driven [...]
We’ve all seen CAPTCHAs. They are those little images that pop-up with some distorted text. You have to type the text to set up a new account, see an e-mail address, etc. They’re designed to differentiate a real human from a computer ‘bot’. Computers can’t interpret the distorted images as well as humans, so they [...]
I ran across a blog entry from Jeff Atwood at Coding Horrors this morning talking about my favorite programming language, javascript. Traditionally, javascript has the reputation of being a ‘toy’ language. But that has changed:
Regardless of your original feelings towards the language, JavaScript has come a long way since the bad old days of 1995. [...]
When you building a web page, it makes sense to think about how the search engines will show it in their listings. A well crafted listing can make a big difference in how many clicks your listing gets. For example, if you were presented with these listings, would you automatically pick the first listing or [...]