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 [...]

DrupalCon is coming to Paris in September 2009

Great news! On Thursday evening, the Drupal Association board chose Paris to host the next European Drupalcon.
First of all we want to congratulate the teams from the other two candidate cities, Maastricht and Cologne. We know they worked hard, spent a lot of energy and did a great job. We’re looking forward to working with [...]

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 [...]

7 Useful Apps For OSX Web Designers

Because of various requests I received lately and the irrefutable fact, that there are plenty of useful yet sometimes rather unknown applications available for OSX, I’d like to share some of my most vital pieces of software with you ordered by function below.
Image Editing – Photoshop CS3 / CS4
Even though there are some really promising [...]

Flash Tutorial on keyboard listeners

So, here is your Flash CS3 Tutorial on how to make an object move using the Arrow Keys. All code is in ActionScript 3.0.

When working in Flash the key board is just as important as the mouse. However, many web sites over look keyboard intractability. If you want your site to stand out, use keyboard controls. If [...]

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 [...]

Adobe Flex

Adobe Flex is a collection of technologies released by Adobe Systems for the development and deployment of cross platform rich Internet applications based on the proprietary Adobe Flash platform. The initial release in March 2004 by Macromedia included a software development kit, an IDE, and a J2EE integration application known as Flex Data Services. Since [...]

History of Ajax Components

Ajax is the acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. However, rather than functioning as an acronym it better describes a technique for producing faster, more interactive, and usable web pages that don’t require re-loading every time a user changes a request. This is accomplished by increasing web page responsive-ness through the exchange of small pieces [...]

jQuery is a new type of JavaScript library.

jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
“You start with 10 lines of jQuery that would have been 20 lines of tedious DOM JavaScript. By the [...]

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is used by both the authors and readers of web pages to define colors, fonts, layout, and other aspects of document presentation. It is designed primarily to [...]