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The recently released book, Microsoft Expression Blend 4 Unleashed, starts out with an introduction that discusses the future of WPF and Silverlight, which is apt due to Microsoft’s recent focus on HTML5 and JavaScript as the development tools of choice for Windows 8 apps. The book delves into customization of the Expression Blend interface, and […]

The task of learning the JavaScript programming language is daunting to many who are considering the challenge. That’s why when Codecademy created a website that claims to teach you about JavaScript using easy-to-understand, browser-based lessons, over 200,000 developers signed up. The Codecademy, which is free to registered members (and yes, registration is also free), has […]

The adoption of HTML5 has accellerated over the last year and a half. With Microsoft suddenly preaching HTML5 to its developers, Apple choosing HTML5 over Adobe Flash, and Google’s Chrome Web Store and its reliance on HTML, more and more companies are making the move to the emerging standard. Industry adoption of HTML5 has also […]

With the plethora of tools available for do-it-yourself web developers, enterprise development is open to anyone with a desire and internet access. That said, professional developers who provide advanced website customization offer something that do-it-yourselfers can’t provide. Enterprise websites seek to provide a unique web presence along with corporate branding, something best not left to […]

An important milestone for HTML5 has happened this week with the announcement from the Silicon Valley International Game Developers Association that it will be hosting the first-ever HTML5 developer conference. On September 27, San Francisco will host the event, which will bring HTML5, JavaScript and mobile developers together to discuss the future of web development. […]

This week Tellini announced the release of its Quick Sprites 1.1 app. Available on the Mac App store, Quick Sprites enables developers to create and maintain CSS sprite sheets. Sprite sheets are a single image which is comprised of several smaller images. By using CSS sprites, there are less HTTP requests from the browser when […]

Although Microsoft has released Windows Phone 7 Mango to manufacturers, the general public has not had a chance to give the updated operating system a test drive. One developer, however, recently got a chance to check out a Mango phone, and shared his initial impressions. The developer’s initial reaction to Mango was disappointment over two […]

The process of maintaining and updating stylesheets can be a daunting process for developers. A new service called WebPutty not only hosts your website’s CSS files, it provides an in-browser CSS editor which provides a side-by-side preview pane that allows developers to update their CSS on the fly. To get started with WebPutty, you must […]

HTML5 is very likely to be the building block of the future web, just as HTML has been the core technology of what we currently know as the web today. According to Drupal’s Dries Buytaert, when Drupal 8 is released, it will create websites using HTML5–but it will be a while before that days comes. […]

This week marks the six month anniversary of Google’s Panda search engine algorithm update, and developers are still scratching their heads, not quite sure which SEO practices to follow. Although some have decreed that SEO doesn’t work any longer, it still works, but the SEO that worked in 2000 just won’t cut it today. Now […]

The company who brought you the jQuery JavaScript framework, appendTo, this week released the results of a study which showed that the percentage of websites that have deployed jQuery has grown larger than those websites which have deployed Adobe Flash. Using statistics from the HTTP Archive that came from analyzing the top 17,000 websites on […]

Basic telephony will soon be coming to HTML5 via Mozilla’s WebAPI (application programmable interface). WebAPI is said to be Mozilla’s attempt to make the line between open web standards and native APIs even thinner, and should work in all browsers, not just those that Mozilla creates. One of Mozilla’s technical evangelists, Robert Nyman, discussed the […]