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Add Undo and Redo to Your Web Application With Cappuccino by Francisco Tolmasky
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As apps move from the desktop to the Web, one of the pieces of functionality that users expect to see but is often overlooked, perhaps because it is hard to implement, is undo/redo. In this tutorial, Francisco Tolmasky explains how easy it is is to add using the Cappucino web framework.
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Sell Your Web App: Lessons I Learned From Selling DropSend by Ryan Carson
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So you want to sell your web app? In this article, Ryan Carson shares some of the the lessons he learned from the recent sale of DropSend. These tips should help you avoid some of the typical (but not always obvious) pitfalls should a buyer come knocking.
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Reduce Your Business Costs With Free Stuff by Ben Rometsch
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In today's credit-crunched times, it's more important than ever to save money wherever you can. In this article, Ben Rometsch explains a few of things that he did to keep costs to a minimum when he first started out, saving thousands in the process.
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Hire The Best People: 10 Easy Steps by Zoë Klimack
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Behind every great web app is an awesome team, but hiring that kick-ass team can be tricky. In this article, Zoë Klimack shares some of FreshBooks's strategy for making great hires.
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Designing User-Centric Web Sites by Chris Messina
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In the third of our series of articles in the lead-up to The Future of Web Apps in London, Chris Messina looks at how we should make sites more user-centric, using forward-facing technologies that are available now.
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We've just launched the site for The Future of Web Apps Dublin, 6th March 2009. There are a limited number of tickets at a special early price of just €115. Book now!
Simon Mackie November 13, 2008
You know, he quite often states the obvious, but Seth Godin states it very well (this time about the old adage "if something looks to good to be true, it probably is")
Simon Mackie November 13, 2008
Google has released a free 22-page Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide containing plenty of well-written, practical and straightforward advice for webmasters. If you've been looking into SEO for a while it probably won't contain anything new for you, but it's useful as a set of guidelines as to what Google considers to be good optimization practice. (psst, Google, with just a little design work it could have looked so much nicer!)
Simon Mackie November 13, 2008
I'm going to The Future of Mobile in London on Monday - as I have less involvement in mobile technology day-to-day I'm looking forward to learning a thing or two! If you're going, be sure to say hi. If you haven't got a ticket yet, there are still a few places left - book here.
Simon Mackie November 13, 2008
We've posted some videos of the presentations from FOWD (more to follow later.) The event went really well and there are some great presentations (Carsonified's very own Mike Kus was great, I thought)
Simon Mackie November 12, 2008
Google.org has released Google Flu Trends, a tool that uses volume of certain search terms to estimate flu activity. This is an interesting example of utilising Google's massive amounts of search data for not-immediately-obvious uses, I'm sure we'll see many more applications like this in future (it also makes me wonder what else Google may be studying with the data it has?)
Simon Mackie November 12, 2008
The iPhone is now the top-selling consumer phone in the US, displacing the Motorola RAZR.
Simon Mackie November 11, 2008
"On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more". The results can be seen at Street With A View.
Simon Mackie November 11, 2008
