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The rapid development of the World Wide Web in recent years has led to an explosive growth of information on the Internet.

A few years ago, search engine placement was arranged by your average Web designer and/or Webmaster. The Webmaster would simply submit a site to search engines manually or use ...

First it was banner ads, then Google AdSense and now, the latest way to make money on your web site could very well be RSS feeds. Say what? I said: RSS is hot and you should be...

Based on 2 years' experience with PRADO v.3.x at Note: Tips are marked with stars ( * ), where 5 stars are the most important tweaks. I. Basic settings ...

You should try to keep your hands on keyboard. The less you touch the mouse, the more code you can write. I am trying to keep the mouse laying still and control the IDE complet...

Today, I was taught an important lesson. The lesson of effectivity. I was attending a presentation, called "Python Django: Advanced web application in 40 minutes". Th...

Many developers, especially those fresh out of college (though older developers are just as prone), fall into the trap of believing in an absolute concept of “the perfect...

One trap that developers need to be wary of is the mentality of the Hammer Truism . This states that When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...

There’s an interesting discussion in the comments on the Coding Horror blog in which Jeff suggests that Your password alone should be enough information for the ...

UPDATE: Added a followup part 2 to this post on the topic of granular control. We have all experienced the trouble caused by plugins that break when an application that ...

With Ted Neward’s recent post on the morass that is Object-Relational mapping , there has been a lot of discussion going around on the topic. In the comments on Atwood...

To properly license open source source code, the license agreement must be included prominently with the source code.

Now I like to take shots at myself for producing drivel now and then, but today, I’m going to take a shot at someone else’s drivel. I really should be working right...

A while ago I wrote that a client often often does not know what he wants until he sees it. I was referring to software development, but this is common across many profession...

A recent confrontational thread within the Subtext forums that I shared with Rob Conery got us into a discussion about the challenges of dealing with difficult members of a...