October 29, 2008 in Learn
Sell Your Web App: Lessons I Learned From Selling DropSend
We just sold DropSend, a little web application that we built some three years ago. Basically, the app enables users to send large files easily, rather than emailing them. It’s been profitable from the start, but I decided to sell…
September 16, 2008 in Learn
Review: Silverback, Usability and the Mac
Silverback is an application from Clearleft that aims to make simple usability testing easy and within the budget of all web professionals. Nate Klaiber tests it out in this review.
August 7, 2008 in Learn
How to Debug in PHP
Nobody enjoys the process of debugging their code. If you want to build killer web apps though, it’s vital that you understand the process thoroughly. This article breaks down the fundamentals of debugging in PHP, helps you understand PHP’s error…
April 28, 2008 in Learn
Our idea of success is all messed up
Update: I’ve added a few more web apps to the list at the end. My last post on Web Mission stirred up a lot of discussion so I’d like to expand on my original thoughts. My main point was not…
March 5, 2008 in Learn
Coding for the mobile web
Introduction Good evening — in this article I will aim to demystify the world of mobile web development, or in other words, developing web sites so that they will provide an acceptable user experience on mobile devices. I’ll run through…
September 11, 2007 in Learn
How to Price your Web App
Pricing is always somewhat of a black art, and a subject about which there is precious little written with regard to web applications. It’s something I’ve always been fascinated by. The question of how to price our web application, Litmus,…
August 6, 2007 in Learn
Copywriting for eCommerce
A site’s copy is one of its most important elements — especially in the world of eCommerce. And in eCommerce one of the worst mistakes a copywriter can make when writing is to concentrate only on product descriptions. While product…
July 2, 2007 in Learn
5 Ways to Optimize AJAX in Ruby on Rails
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.– Arthur C. Clarke When Google first unveiled GMail, then GMaps, a firestorm of interest and activity was generated — not just in those Google applications, but the technologies that powered them. These…
March 22, 2007 in Learn
Setting & Retrieving Accesskeys with JavaScript and DOM
There are some things in the world of accessibility that appear, on the face of it, to be really wonderful ideas… until you scratch slightly below the service. What may seem feasible when putting together some guidelines on accessibility might…
August 25, 2006 in Learn
Add Microformats Magic to your Site
Think back to when you first began using the web. It might be a couple of years, probably five, ten or even more. How did you use the web back then? More likely than not, you searched using Google, or…
May 7, 2006 in Learn
The Foundations of Ruby Arrays
An array is a list of items in order (like vitamins, minerals, and chocolates). Those keeping score at home might be interested to know that the Rails website framework makes 771 calls to Array.each, 558 calls to Array.map, and 1,521…
April 12, 2006 in Learn
Review: Fluxiom
Fluxiom is a next generation digital asset manager. We put it through it’s paces to see if it’s worthy of all the pre-launch press.