The Web 2.0 superstar of the last year and a half has to be Digg, the user-moderated technology portal, full of the latest tech stories. It’s even eclipsed Slashdot in terms of page hits, although I still think that Slashdot’s content is…
Archive for the tag 'web design'
Jun 06 2006
LAMP is dead, long live LAMP
Cliff doesn’t like LAMP. While LAMP has its drawbacks, of course, I think Cliff is talking out of his ass.
MySQL and PHP, on the other hand, really raise my ire. Both of them have two major problems:
- Bug ridden (by this I…
Jun 05 2006
Slashdot redux
Looks like Slashdot finally got its long-promised redesign. Looks like they took the time to add some features from the runners-up to the winning entry. I think CmdrTaco would have been better off picking a more inventive template, but at this…
May 20 2006
Some changes in blog architecture
The last two days have seen a couple of changes under the hood here, none of which are staggering but all of which I’m rather pleased with.
Akismet
Akismet is nothing new, of course, having debuted last year as a centralized spam-catching service…
May 18 2006
CNN and the death of permalinks
Going through my post archives (for reasons which will be explained tomorrow), I noticed that most of my citations that linked to CNN articles now lead to 404 errors, even articles only a few months old. Searching the CNN site…
May 02 2006
CSS Reboot
Mar 31 2006
Lightbox JS 2.0
Lokesh Dhakar’s wonderful LightboxJS script has seen a major update, this time leverage the widgetry of the Prototype JS library in order to have nifty transition effects.
The Wordpress plugin is in the works, but I’m impatient, and the latest releases…
Mar 21 2006
Dreamweaver, how I loathe thee!
Sure, as an IDE, it’s not the worst (*cough*VS.NET*cough*), but I loathe its templating system with a passion that burns with the fire of a thousand suns.
After spending months developing, tweaking, and deploying a new set of templates for the…
Mar 07 2006
Python.org redesign
Python has redone their website, and I must say that I am impressed: clean lines; nice, semantic code; extensible. Mmmm, CSS goodness.