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Open Source, dispelling the myths
Open source technologies are wide spread throughout the tech world, many top 500 companies have based their business around them. Most web servers (63.9% according to survey by W3Techs, in August 2011) use linux, which is an open source operating system. This is also used by companies like Google and Facebook to run their world leading infrastructures. Most of Facebook’s technologies are based around open source, from linux servers, to PHP and MySQL, and more advanced performance technologies like Memcache and Cassandra. Apple’s operating system Mac OS X was originally based off the open source FreeBSD, NetBSD and Unix operating systems. These same underlying technologies are used in their mobile operating system found in iPhone and iPads.
Website are nothing without good content.
Waves of dissatisfaction sink in when users have to wait an extra nanosecond that we do not have for the flash intro to load. Then, seeing a lack of well-written compact information amidst the graphics and designs, deeper irritation have now officially stunted users appetite to browse through your site. Impressive graphics they may be, engaging with the average consumer/visitor online is not as easy as attracting a kid with bright coloured cards despite the similar attention span.
IE 9
Microsoft marked the kick off of the latest version of its web browser with a party at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas.The unveiling of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) marks the latest update from the three most popular browsers round the world, as they brawl for share of how customers will view the internet as it moves into the next generation of HTML 5.A ten years ago, the browser was used to look at simple text and images. Now they are shifting to deal with HTML5, an advanced set of web commands that help a browser to show streaming media and animation without methods such as Flash. A superior manager at Microsoft said: "The vast majority of customers will soon have a HTML5 browser. This will be a big progression in the history of the web."As the browsers change, the market is more competitive than ever as use of the internet rises. Internet Explorer still rules the browser market, but has decreased from over 90 per cent less than 10 years ago to 57 per cent this year, according to Net Applications.The change over started in 2004 when Mozilla launched Firefox, a not-for-profit open source initiative. Jay Sullivan, vice-president of products at Mozilla, said: "Now competition is good. There are three or four modern browsers out there. It's a vibrant market, rich competition helps." He added that Microsoft's new browser was a "Mozilla achievement. We introduced competition, now we have IE9."
Google's New Algorithm
By now you've probably heard of the latest Google algorithm update last week. As always, Google changes the playing field, the changes will help some of the sites and punish others. Some sites will rise in the standings, and an equal number go down. While we understand all the details of every major search engine to update the time on the basis of timely information, here are some tips that can help adjust to a new algorithm and, hopefully, help improve your site's ranking.
Google's Starter Guide to SEO
Google have published their ownSEO starter guide which covers the basics of search engine optimization as it relates to the Google search engine.
Web Design History
Tim Berners-Lee published what is considered to be the first website in August 1991.[3] Berners-Lee was the first to combine Internet communication (which had been carrying email and the Usenet for decades) with hypertext (which had also been around for decades, but limited to browsing information stored on a single computer, such as interactive CD-ROM design). Websites are written in a markup language called HTML, and early versions of HTML were very basic, only giving a website's basic structure (headings and paragraphs), and the ability to link using hypertext. This was new and different from existing forms of communication - users could easily navigate to other pages by following hyperlinks from page to page.
Gmail vs Outlook
My old e-mail and calendar system was based around Outlook and I've always found it met my requirements very well but it had started to become slow and cumbersome and was using a large chunk of system memory.
Internet Explorer 6
Many people have probably heard the Evangelists going on about the death of Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) for a long time now. What is it about this browser that evokes such hate and why do most Web Developers look forward to a future without IE6?
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