Open Web Design

How to get more comments on your blog
You must continue posting through the lack of comments, and your website will come out stronger on the other end; Blog posts must be interesting, well worded, and open ended to encourage comments – especially the titles ...

Google App Engine. Time to learn Python?
The announcement was followed closely by some bad feeling in the blogosphere kicking off, some people feeling that the chat app demoed was a bit too close to Basecamp’s design etc. And the subsequently took it offline. ...

Load file to TextBox/Save TextBox to file
'Returns: True if Successful, false otherwise Dim iFile As Integer iFile = FreeFile If Append Then Open FilePath For Append As #iFile Else Open FilePath For Output As #iFile End If Print #iFile, TxtBox.Text SaveFileFromTB = True ...

Notes from Advanced Web Development: software strategies for ...
Treat CSS like another software component of web design and standardise your CSS usage. Use structured naming for classes and divs in server-side content generation. Check out oswd.org for free templates. XML in the real world ...

Yonkly - Open Source Twitter
Here is an excellent post with tons of links to all sort of web design sites, tools, resources, etc.... Visual Studio 2008 Orcas and Visual SourceSafe (VSS). [Workaround below] I just installed Beta 2 for VS 2k8 and everything went ...

.ics and .vcs files and gmail
We have a few applications that allow you to open a .vcs file and have it add to your Outlook calendar. I was hoping that I could e-mail this file, and have various web based calendars open this file, too. But it looks like this is not ...

Statement on behalf of the design of the NIH-Policy on Publishing
2. that the access to the document is open-access, that is, there exists a copy on the web, provided by any host, that is online digitally available by anyone with no barrier, technically or financially, ...

Get listed at DMOZ
Your website design should be already completed at the time you make the submission. That means that the design of every single web page should be finished. Unfinished websites will be rejected. Also make sure that your website contains ...

Windows XP - Development Project
Every time I start a new project, I learn something new, whether it be in coding, graphics, or design, I always learn something which I can use again. I thought to myself 'I need a project in which I can learn as much as possible'. ...

Filtering User Input in PHP
With this article, I want to shed some light on some of the ways to protect the security, quality and integrity of you web applications written in PHP and MySQL. There is always going to be rotten people out there that want to take ...