It's an old joke among web geeks that "the internet is for porn". OK, so it was invented by the department of defence for the sake of communications, but if there's one industry that can commodify a resource faster than...
Author: Lincoln on October 25th, 2008
Category: Development
Tags: growth, market share, popularity, porn, Social Networking
The 2008 Rails Rumble, a competition for Ruby on Rails coders, saw 131 web applications launch into the wild this past weekend. The quality of the applications increased dramatically this year, turning the competition into something of a startup hyper-incubator,...
Author: socialcmsbuzz on October 24th, 2008
Category: Programming
Tags: rails, rails applications, rails apps, ruby on rails
Back in April, Collis Ta'eed - CEO of Envato - wrote a fantastic tutorial on designing a tab structure using CSS/HTML/JS. If you haven't already, I 100% recommend that you review it. However, dynamically pulling in an RSS feed was...
Author: Lincoln on October 22nd, 2008
Category: PHP
Tags: ajax, Javascript, php, rss feed, tutorial
Think you know what you’re doing every time you engage in social media? Neither do I, and neither do the social media gurus I spoke to about their biggest social networking blunders. In an effort to learn from others’ mistakes,...
Author: Lincoln on October 22nd, 2008
Category: Development
Tags: opinion, social media
The single biggest distributor of Drupal just might be Microsoft. As I discovered from Dries Buytaert's blog on Wednesday, Microsoft's Web Application Installer comes with out-of-the-box support for Wordpress, Drupal, OScommerce, and other popular open-source Web applications....
Author: Lincoln on October 21st, 2008
Category: Development
Tags: Drupal, microsoft, open source, oscommerce, Wordpress
Part of my responsibility at Ford is to set strategy for the company globally on social media activities. So when DM News called to ask for an interview, I talked about what some of the challenges are at a multinational...
Author: Lincoln on October 20th, 2008
Category: Development
Tags: News, social media
AJAX provides Web developers with plenty of opportunities to enhance the user experience and improve the performance of their websites. There are countless ways that AJAX can be used, and fortunately there are plenty of good and useful AJAX tutorials...
Author: Lincoln on October 20th, 2008
Category: Javascript
Tags: ajax, Javascript, tutorial, web development
Digg will be undergoing some significant updates, but upon first glance, it may seem that nothing has changed. That’s because the changes included in the coming release are 100% under the hood. For the last few months, Digg’s developers have...
Author: Lincoln on October 20th, 2008
Category: Development
Tags: digg, social news