Tag: WEBDEVELOPER

Did you know that color blindness is surprisingly common -- if you're male, anyway. You know how men are 'XY' and women are 'XX'? That little 'missing leg' in the male Y chromosome supplies women with redundant genes for eyesight. Yes, men are genetically weaker than women -- cool huh? Anyway, if you're a Web developer, or merely curious as to how the Web looks to color blind people, check out ...

This one is for hardcore HTML5 and Ruby developers: Pusher is a private-beta HTML5 tool which helps developers create webapps featuring real-time collaboration a-la EtherPad, only faster (judging by the demo video, at least). For some reason the video cannot be embedded, but it shows two browser windows (admittedly on the same computer), and you can see the developer dragging "notes" around a ...

I had the most interesting conversation with one of my friends the other day. Adam: "Whew... finally finished with my latest web project!" Friend (in awe): "Whoa! That's awesome! How did you make that?" Now, of course, this project of mine was a full-fledged ASP.NET web application; a simple question like "how did you make that" could easily end up with me not only explaining what I did, but how ...

A lot of companies, like Zoho, had to build their iPhone specific web applications without even testing on the iPhone. There was a lot of guessing games and sheer luck that had to go into building these applications and getting them ready for a semi final release before Apple's latest invention hit the streets. Now that the iPhone is out, Apple wants to ensure that web applications and content ...