Persistent Storage for Web Apps

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Brad Neuberg talks about the latest ways to achieve browser-based client-side storage and how it can help you make better web apps.

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The Next Web of Open, Linked Data

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20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.

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Force a URL to Use HTTPS

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Site owners sometimes need to make sure secure connections are used. They can do this quickly with this Apache rule.

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TED Talks: Beyond the Crisis, Mindboggling Science and the Arrival of Homo Evolutis

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Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don’t look for it on your ballot — or in the stock exchange. It’ll come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and minds. Our kids are going to be … different.

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FREE Thesis Template: Strange Little Town

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This template is based on a WordPress theme by Minmin. Unfortunately the original theme doesn’t behave uniformly across multiple browsers. Don’t worry, that’s where Thesis comes in.

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My TODO List for 2009

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I was tagged by SQL Server Guru Denis Gobo. Here is my technical to-do list for 2009.

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iTunes Crashes During Sync Post 2.2.1 Upgrade – FIX

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Keep iTunes from crashing after the iPhone/iPod Touch 2.2.1 upgrade.

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Ext-JS Conference 2009, April 14-16 in Orlando, FL

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Ext-JS has announced their 1st Annual Ext Conference and Ext 3.0 release party on April 14 to 16, 2009 in Orlando, Florida!

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New Book: Learning Ext-JS

Steve “Cutters” Blades’ book on Ext-JS is out. By using a series of straightforward examples backed by screenshots, Learning Ext JS will help you create web applications that look good and perform beyond the expectations of your users.

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Image Optimization, AlphaImageLoader

This article, part 5 of a series on image optimization, talks about the use of transparent PNGs with IE6 and why the AlphaImageLoader hack is bad and a very interesting solution This installment of the image optimization series is about the IE-proprietary AlphaImageLoader CSS filter, which developers often use as a workaround to solve transparency [...]

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