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How to Break Into the SEO Clique

news — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:00:17 +0000

If you are in the search engine optimization industry or you are trying to break into this incredibly saturated industry to make a name for yourself you might have a difficult time getting accepted into the circle of friends at the top of the food chain. The “elite” group that has been in the industry [...]

Handy Tools and Tips for E-Commerce Websites

news — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:00:16 +0000

Running an e-commerce website is a never-ending task, from trying to squeeze that extra bit of conversion rate out of the check-out page to figuring out which referrers give you the best traffic. There’s also a plethora of tools out there to help you achieve your goals. But which ones do what, and [...]

HOW Design Conference 2010

news — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:00:15 +0000

Sponsored by HOW magazine, the conference continues its focus on three key components of graphic design: creativity, business and technology….

Guide to Green Building Rating Systems

news — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:00:14 +0000

Today, sustainability is a growing concern for the architects, designers, builders, and owners of commercial and residential buildings.

A polyglot Google Chrome beta, with new privacy features

news — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:00:13 +0000

Whether you’re catching up on your favorite Arabic gameshow, getting up to speed on the latest Korean mobile gadgetry, or researching the local perspective for a dream trip to Machu Picchu, we’re all constantly reminded that the internet is an amazingly multilingual place. The Google Chrome team is excited to introduce a new beta feature [...]

Earthquake in Chile: How to Help

news — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:00:13 +0000

This past Saturday, February 27th at 3:34 AM Chilean local time there was an 8.8 magnitude earthquake that lasted for approximately three minutes causing a lot of destruction throughout Chile. Mozilla has a strong volunteer community through both ChileMoz and Firefox Chile. In October 2009 a number of Mozilla employees and community members spent a [...]

IE8 SmartScreen Filter – Protecting Users at Internet Scale

news — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:00:13 +0000

The RSA 2010 Security Conference is just finishing up here in San Francisco, and I’m struck by how many of the conference sessions and keynotes have warned about the threat that socially engineered malware poses to the security of the Internet. Malware has become the scourge of the Internet, and it’s not just the security [...]

YUI 3 Gallery Contest 2010 — Win a Ticket to JSConf 2010

news — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:00:11 +0000

We’re pleased to announce the YUI 3 Gallery Contest 2010. Thanks to our friends at the Yahoo! Developer Network, we have a conference pass to the sold-out JSConf 2010 to offer. We’re pairing that with a $500 gift certificate to Expedia.com to help the prize winner get back and forth to Virginia for [...]

The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 14 – Phil Haack

news — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:00:10 +0000

This week Elijah and Ralph sit down and talk with Microsoft’s Phil Haack, Senior Program Manager on the ASP.NET team, currently working on the new ASP.NET MVC Framework. We discuss their recent decisions to include jQuery into several of their products what ASP.NET MVC is and how jQuery is integrated into the project. You can [...]

Friday fun: Let’s translate YUI3 to jQuery

news — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:00:09 +0000

I just came across this wonderful Gist on gitHub: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: var $; YUI().use(’*', function(Y){ $ = Y.get; for(var p in Y) { $[p] = Y[p]; } }); // test $(’body’).append(”boo!”); In case you want to use YUI3 but really really like jQuery syntax OK, it breaks the whole sandboxing idea of YUI3, but that’s a small price [...]