I honestly have no idea when this was announced, but Twitter will start disabling its “Basic Auth” on Aug. 16, 2010 (the system will be completely unavailable by Aug. 31). For Twitter users, this doesn’t really mean anything. However, for Web developers that use various interfaces and plug-ins to share information on Twitter, this is big. The majority of API libraries and classes that were (and, as of this writing, still are)... 

I was amazed at the response to my recent article, 10 Common Mistakes Made by Novice Web Designers . I anticipated an angry mob congregating outside SitePoint HQ with pitchforks and flaming torches. Well, I expected a few incendiary comments at least. It’s time to redress the balance and give web developers some flak. Will they be as open-minded? Are they willing to accept a little criticism? Obviously, this article isn’t aimed at... 

When building a website, it’s critical to test your page against multiple resolutions to make sure everything displays properly on different screens. It’s especially important to test against all the mobile browsers out there, now that the mobile web is exploding and the tablet/netbook web is gathering steam. ResizeMyBrowser , created by a developer named Chen Luo, is a super-simple web app that snaps your browser’s width and... 

One of the biggest mistakes software companies can make is to assume that more developers will result in more rapid product releases. It doesn’t. This initially seems illogical, however, the law of diminishing returns applies to most industries. And there’s truth to the old adage about too many cooks… Software development is an unusual and complicated process. Unlike other forms of manufacturing, there is an infinite variety... 

A few days ago, Paul Boag announced that he would not continue publishing the BoagWorld podcast past the beginning of next month. While I understand his reasoning, support his decision and am really looking forward to see what he produces in the future; I am also very sad to hear this news. The BoagWorld podcast has been an invaluable resource for me since I discovered it. For those that don’t know, BoagWorld is one of the longest-running... 

The browser landscape has changed significantly during the past decade. There was little choice 10 years ago — you needed to develop and test your code in IE (or Netscape 4 if you were really unlucky) . Then Firefox became the developer’s weapon of choice 5 years ago: it offered the best debugging tools and prompted the rise of Web2.0 applications. Today, the situation has …  Read More →

Moogo lets you create professional looking websites with a range of design and layout options for almost any type of content site. There are a wide range of options inside the Moogo portal and site creation is very quick and easy. It’s just three simple steps and if you can use Microsoft Word, you will be able to use Moogo. The only thing you need to decide with Moogo is what features you want to use. Moogo offers you a Free Website with... 

Chris Pederick’s Web Developer toolbar was one of the first extensions developed for Firefox. Personally, I think it was one of the primary reasons many developers switched to and evangelized Mozilla’s browser. I remember trying the WDT for the first time and reveling in its immense power. If you’ve started web development during the past 5 years, you’d have been appalled by the poor-quality client-side coding tools available... 

Sometimes, if you use a CMS like WordPress or Movable Type, you could need to change the URL structure in use on your blog with a more SEO friendly structure. This is a big problem especially if your site is already indexed and some posts are popular on search engines: if you change the URL structure, all your posts will be unavailable at the old URLs and, in this way, you risk to lose visitors and ranking. A safe way to change the URL structure... 

In 2004, the Web 2.0 philosophy introduced a new paradigm for the Web that also marked a huge change of direction in the approach to design websites then before. The main guidelines of the new trend in web design was simplicity, minimalism, central layout, bigger text, bold logos, gradient and reflection effects, which constitute the fundamental basis for a viral revolution of the face of the World Wide Web. The community …  Read More →

The Web is evolving fast: new features, formats, user needs, continuously change the way we interact with websites. In this post I want to suggest you some interesting emerging techniques every web developer should know in order to build modern web applications. HTML 5 Offline Application The HTML 5 specification introduces a lot of new features that radically improve the way users interact with websites and web applications. With HTML 5 developers... 

In this post I want to illustrate how to use jQuery getJSON() method to load JSON data using an HTTP GET request. I prepared two examples, easy to understand if you are a jQuery beginner. The first example is a simple Twitter search and the second one is a simple Flickr search. For a printable reference guide to the jQuery API I suggest you to download my jQuery Visual Cheat Sheet or take a look at the official jQuery documentation . Using getJSON()... 

When developing any new WordPress theme, I really do try and integrate as much of the functionality I want to accomplish without the use of third party plugins. Don’t get me wrong, I think plugins are great, and WordPress would not be the same without them. For me, it’s more the challenge of seeing if I can figure it out on my own. In one of my more recent themes , I wanted to integrate a Flickr gallery and found that it was actually... 

We definitely think that maps are the today’s cooler topic, as told in another post ( Play with Google maps and Twitter api ), and Google Maps API exposes so many functionalities so that I and Alberto Mancini decided to explore deeper some related features via a little toy ( Hello Kitty Lost in Milan ), which can be downloaded here . When you open the application, what you see is Hello Kitty that has lost the way and comes around looking... 

In this tutorial I want to illustrate how to use oEmbed API to display embedded content (such as Flickr photos, YouTube or Vimeo videos) in your website. What’s oEmbed ? oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites (YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Viddler, …). Where is oEmbed used? Facebook probably has one of the most popular implementation of oEmbed. For example, when you copy a link from YouTube...