Chrome OS Partners: Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments

Google is starting to respond to questions about the just announced Chrome operating system. In a short FAQ today they talked about cost and initial partners.
First of all, the software will be free, which was an easy assumption to make since it will be open source. Like Android, Google will not charge users or device [...]

CodeIgniter – Open source PHP web application framework

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you’re a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you’re tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented [...]

Ten Characteristics of a Good Client

Do you know the key characteristics of a good client? Can you distinguish the good clients from the bad before you start working for them?
Or, when the tables are turned, do you have what it takes to become a good client when your business expands and you’re ready to hire other freelancers?
Here are ten characteristics [...]

Why Freelancing is Awesome

If you know a lot about freelancing, then you know that there are a lot of things that can make freelancing really hard. But that isn’t the whole story — freelancing is one of the best things on earth, despite any of the difficulties there may be.
Why is freelancing so awesome?

Control over [...]

A Collection of 60+ Free Textures from Stock.xchng

You can get great results and save considerable amounts of time by taking advantage of textures that are freely available. One excellent resources of textures (and other types of stock images) is Stock.xchng. Designm.ag  has shared us “60+ Free Textures from SXC.hu“, you’ll find more than 60 textures from Stock.xchng. Each image links to the page [...]

Displaying Time in Flash using Actionscript

The Date class in Actionscript along with its various methods helps us to retrieve date and time values (Local / GMT).
Create three Dynamic Textboxes for displaying the hours, minutes, seconds and name their variables as ch, cm, cs respectively.
Write the following Actionscript code in the Actions window (F9) as given below:
var dt, timeint;
dt = new [...]

jQuery: Introduction

jQuery Introduction Step By Step Tutorial – Part 1: JQuery is a popular JavaScript library. With jQuery, you can build more interesting and interactive web page easy. jQuery automate common tasks and simplify complicated writing code. jQuery have ability to assist in wide range of task. This is one reason this library become popular choice.
What [...]

Ajax Challenges Web Development Leaders — And Web Publishers And Advertisers

A do-it-yourself approach to creating Web software called Ajax relies on a mishmash of existing Web technologies to create a new breed of fast, highly interactive sites. The trend is already befuddling traditional vendors of Web development software, and if these kinds of interactive apps continue to catch on, they could force Web publishing, advertising, [...]

New Drupal Book: Drupal Multimedia!

Aaron Winborn, of Advomatic and Embedded Media Field fame, has completed writing Drupal Multimedia, to be published by Packt Publishing this September (and you can pre-order now)! Packt will be donating a portion of the royalties to the Drupal Association, in keeping with their long-standing policy of supporting the Open Source community.
Written for Drupal 6, [...]

Ajax Technology (Building Web Applications Just Got More Fun)

Web applications are fun to build. They are like the fancy sportscar of Web sites. Web applications allow the designer and developer to get together and solve a problem for their customers that the customers might not have even know they had. That’s how the blogging tools like MovableType and Blogger came about after all. [...]