It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Caching Twitter Statistics Locally
24 Sep , 2009
Social networking tools seem to have become one of the more popular Internet technologies today. Out of the many available, Twitter is ahead of them all when it comes to popularity and micro-blogging. While browsing the Internet you may run across a site that has taken advantage of Twitter’s portability by integrating their Twitter feed [...]
Making Sure Your Beautiful Site Isn’t a Lemon
23 Sep , 2009
Most people judge a website’s quality based on how it looks. While the look of a site is important, you must also be concerned with the code behind the site that functions as the framework of the site. After all, a flashy car is just a lawn ornament without a running engine. So how do [...]
WAVE yourself to better Accessibility
21 Sep , 2009
Over 1.6 Billion people use the Internet every day. (Source: Internet World Stats) No joke. Now imagine the potential impact that the web has on those people if a website becomes unusable, or even inaccessible. This potential impact becomes even greater if we look at websites that generate revenue (i.e. E-commerce). WebAIM believes that roughly [...]
I’m Investing My Stimulus Check in the Code Bank
18 Sep , 2009
Wouldn’t it be nice if code grew on trees? Until that day…it’s a great idea for developers to set up and maintain some sort of “code bank”. Anytime you come up with a useful snippet, class, function, whatever — document how and what it does and store it in an easily-accessible location where your colleagues can use it.