Over at the O’Reilly Ruby blog, Derek Sivers has an intestesting post up, describing what he learned from his decision to revert to PHP for the complete rewrite of his cdbaby.com site, after spending two years trying to do it in Rails.
In a nutshell, those two years of Rails development (with very expert help) got [...]

A few weeks ago we identified SEM. Now we need to explore some of the ways Web site owners can use Social Media (social networks, blogs, videos, podcast, Wikis, DIGG, etc) to promote a site. For the purposes of this post we will only discuss YouTube and Flickr but there are clearly many other [...]

If you spend a little time looking into the online literature for the Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) exploit, you might get the impression that Web 2.0 has opened up an appalling can of security worms. In some ways this is true, but in other respects what we are seeing [...]

Every time we hear the exclamation “we’re going to use XML” a small shiver runs through our collective technical spines. What exactly did the speaker mean by this statement? Did they mean they planned on using a well known XML-based vocabulary or language to store their data? Or maybe they meant they were [...]