Posts tagged web development

Links for 2008-11-03

• Why the open strategy is a good idea [Matt McAlister] Matt thinks “we’re on the cusp of an explosion of open strategies and concepts across all markets, not least of which is the publishing world”.
• 1,000 web APIs [ProgrammableWeb] “Last week ProgrammableWeb crossed one of its biggest milestones thus far when we added the 1,000th web service API to our API directory.”
• Prototyping with XHTML [Boxes and Arrows] “Leverage code as a design and specification platform.”
• The week that Britain’s culture wars broke out [Observer] “The BBC’s attempts to create cross-generational entertainment have opened up new fault lines.”
• SERTUC conference on PSB [BECTU] “The South Eastern Regional TUC’s Creative and Leisure section, is organising a conference on the future of public service broadcasting … on Saturday 15 November 2008.” Update 10 November 2008 at 1607: The conference has been postponed.

Links for 2008-09-10

• Google Chrome why? [Tom Scott] Why have Google built their own browser and how does it relate to Firefox?
• Mozilla Ubiquity [Dan Brickley] A look at the Mozilla Labs experimental Firefox extension.
• Radio Pop - social radio listening [BBC Radio Labs] Background to their Radio Pop experimental prototype site.
• 10 principles of the PHP masters [NETTUTS] “The best principles to follow for high-grade PHP programming” according to the site.

I took the 2008 ALA Survey

For the second successive year A List Apart is carrying out its survey of “designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites”.

It shouldn’t take much more than 10 minutes to complete - I did it in less!

Last year there were nearly 33,000 responses, and this year’s findings will be reported as they were in 2007.

The more who participate in the survey, the better the results will be.

So, all of you involved in building websites, go to the survey now!

Update Saturday 16 August 2008 at 0746: The survey closes Tuesday 26 August 2008.

Links for 2008-07-17

• Oyster Card failure recovery [Going Underground's Blog]
• Maybe normalizing isn’t normal [Jeff Atwood]
• European Directive on Public Sector Information [Power of Information Task Force]
• Smart CSS ain’t always sexy CSS [Digital Web Magazine]
• Sound and vision [Jeremy Keith]

Links for 2008-07-16

• Our YouTube privacy: a triumph for common sense [Guardian PDA]
• The latest on our audio improvements [BBC Radio Labs]
• Alpha: when beta is not good enough [Mashable]
• Is the iPhone killing terrestrial radio? [ReadWriteWeb]
• The sun sets on free speech [Jeff Jarvis]

Links for 2008-07-08

• Portable Social Networks, the building blocks of a social web [Digital Web Magazine]
• YouTube/Viacom privacy followup (and what Google should do) [Dan Brickley]
• Release early, release often is not as easy as it seems [Chris Heilmann]
• The Clangers’ guide to Microformats [Drew McLellan]

Links for 2008-07-05

• Jyri Engestrom on “Nodal Points” [Joho]
• BBC Topics: how it works [BBC Internet Blog]
• Design for wombling [Tom Scott]
• Getting Real [37signals]
• Collaborate and connect with Subversion [A List Apart]

Links for 2008-07-03

• Warning to copyright enforcers: Three strikes and you’re out [Guardian]
• Hackers fan the flames of imagination at Mashed [Guardian]
• London SearchMonkey Developer Evening a great success [Yahoo Developer Network blog]
• Firefox download record official [BBC]
• The machine that copies itself [Guardian]
• Merger forms transatlantic union [BBC]