Following up from his competition-winning tutorial, Akash explains how to use Adobe AIR to build a handy notes storage app. This is the first of three articles on building web-enabled desktop applications using the exciting Adobe AIR platform. Read more…
There is a reason that SitePoint Marketplace seems to be breaking listings records each month -- buyers are just as active as sellers. In July SitePoint saw a record number of listings and bids in the Marketplace, and more importantly for sellers, a record number of successful auctions. Read more…
Spam accounts for 90-95% of all emails. Does the fate of social networks have to mirror that of email? Not if the founders of those sites can help it. Read more…
While everyone else is running away from the newspaper business, Yahoo! is running straight at it. According to an interesting profile from the AFP, Yahoo! is planning to lean on its huge global audience of over 500 million people to build out its own original news reporting arm. Read more…
The wisdom of the crowds has been put to use to do some awesome things already, such as create a huge encyclopedia (Wikipedia), and manage a mutual fund (Marketocracy). But what about the money of the crowd? It's being put to use as well. Read more…
eBay has long had a reputation of being a place you could find anything under the sun. But as the site transitions to a fixed price focus and slowly kills off the auction format that made it a huge web success, the variety that made eBay famous may also go by the wayside. Read more…
A new report indicates that news is more likely to go viral than humorous content because prolific media sharers prefer to share news content. But we think that the conclusion by the report's author may be a little off: the mainstream still likes funny stuff. Read more…
Last week, citing ballooning costs, Twitter turned off outgoing SMS updates to a number of countries outside of Canada, India, or the US. A couple of third party sites are now letting users in those countries pay for their own SMS updates via Twitter. Read more…
Here is my proposed reset.css file. Let me know what you think, and what should be corrected. It provides some hacks for clearing elements and reduces some of the browser rendering inconsistencies that default elements often display. Read more…
Are you overly reliant upon the alert() statement when debugging JavaScript? James suggests considering the throw() statement, which provides several advantages, including writing debug information to the console and termination execution. Give it a go! Read more…
Interested in trialling a new lead-generation service? SitePoint Services is a vendor-matching service that connects individual companies looking for web development services with qualified vendors who offer those services. As a customer, you can request multiple quotes for your project, at no obligation. And as a vendor, it's a terrific way to expand your client base. Read more…
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