iWeb Communities: Blog

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For May 12th, here are the highlights:

• FlairBuilder is a very interesting prototyping tool for user interface designers. Unlike Balsamiq or iPlotz, FlairBuilder makes it possible to create actionable prototypes
• Hadoops sorts a Terabyte of data in 62 seconds
• Laconica is an open source micro-blogging platform. Interesting if you want to provide a Twitter-like service for your employees or for an organization
• Python programmers: Pattern matching in Python

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For May 11th, here are the highlights:

• CubeTree is a new interesting application which has the same features as Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook, but for the Entreprise. Think intranets, Q&As, as well as project management
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective developers
• Botnet master hits kill switch, takes down 100,000 PCs
• an interesting experiment: CouchDB on Wheels

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For May 7th, here are the highlights:

• Twitter will start indexing links for search, which will turn into a competitor to Google Search
• 2 different reports show that the telecommunications industry is out of capacity for the Internet, at its current growing rate, while another analysis shows that networks infrastructure spending is booming.
• Draw beautiful charts with Google Chart, through a javascript library
• Estonia planning 100Mbps Internet connections for its net-izens

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For May 6th, here are the highlights:

• TechCrunchIT writes that it’s the end for RSS
• Ilya Grigorik’s presentation on building a “mini-Google” in Ruby at RailsConf
• Sid Meier, an icon in games development, lists his rules for software design and development. It’s interesting if you are a programmer, a designer or a even a web entrepreneur.

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For May 5th, here are the highlights:

• Creating Buzz 101 for websites: from 0 to Forbes in under a week
• F.lux: software to make better lighting for your computer
• a micropreneur’s perspective: Selling physical products vs digital products
• BlackBerry Curve more popular than the iPhone

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For May 4th, here are the highlights:

• A list of client-side frameworks (mostly Javascript frameworks, but also other frameworks like Flex)
• The L.A. Times tells why text messages are limited to 160 characters (and in a way, why we have 140 characters now for services like Twitter or identi.ca)
• Is it time to cut the Ethernet access cable? an article at MacWorld, about the popularity of WiFi networks

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For May 1st, here are the highlights:

• A blog post discusses the value of commercial databases (Oracle, MS SQL) vs open-sourced databases (MySQL, PostregreSQL, sqlite…). The author argues using Oracle is only justified in only 1% of cases.
• New features for the 3.5 version of Firefox.
• jspern is a mini-framework for Django to create REST APIs
• Facebook: efficient storage of billions of photos. The blog post at the Facebook engineering blog has more details about their Haystack system (servers, software, protocols etc.)
• Ars Technica: Twitter’s growth can’t be sustained

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 29th, here are the highlights:

• Edushi is a Google maps mashup with 3D visuals. It’s impressive and lets us see what can be done with the Google Maps API.
• The new ground zero in Internet Warfare
• Tokutek’s TokuDB claims to speed up MySQL by a factor of 10

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 27th, here are the highlights:

• How to leverage product development for your web company
• How much ads cost is an article revealing rates if you want to advertise on different media (TV, cable, magazine, Internet, radio). This is especially useful if you want to put ads on your website and negotiate with advertisers
• Compass is a CSS framework (video tutorial on how to use it)

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 23rd, here are the highlights:

• I ? wireframes is a blog/slideshow referencing interesting wireframes patterns
• How to optimize your website with mod_deflate
• Massive botnet, 2 million infected. The new network is operated out of Ukraine
• Microsoft Windows 7 is a gift to Google, writes Silicon Alley Insider

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 20th, here are the highlights:

• Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design, with a few guidelines for those new to web design
• The team behind the Pirate Bay were found guilty last Friday. The trial was symbolic of the fight between the music industry and common practices on the Internet (file-sharing and downloading)
• peep is a new tool that allows a sys-admin to see what’s currently in memcached

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 17th, here are the highlights:

• Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step, just by gzipping served content
• GitHub Issue Tracker, a new feature at the code repository service, that will allow developers to manage issues, with a Gmail-like clean interface
• Phusion’s One Year Anniversary Gift: Phusion Passenger 2.2.0. Phusion has released a new version of Passenger that works with nginx. Previously, it was only available for the Apache web server. Good news for Rails developers, who now have more deployment choices.
• Google Shows a 3% Sequential Dip In Revenues: First One Ever. Google also layed off recently engineers and workforce, and stopping recruiting

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 16th, here are the highlights:

• 10 Development that changed the Face of computing, highlighting revolutionary technologies such as the Internet, Photoshop, Unix, and graphical operating systems
• 8 Characteristics of Successful User Interfaces. The Usability Post blog shows a few guiding principles if you’re building the front-end and the user interface of an application
• Six Steps to a successful virtualization deployement. Ars Technica sums up comments and advices by its community on how to use virtualization software on servers.

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 15th, here are the highlights:

• How To Prevent XSS Attacks. Preventing XSS attacks is especially important these days, especially in the light of the Twitter worm which happened this weekend
• 70+ Practical Cheat Sheet For Web Designers and Web Developers, covering most popular platforms and technologies
• Tropo.com is a new web service which allows you to add telephony functions to your website, through an API

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 9th, here are the highlights:

• Search Engine Optimization Tips by Gabriel Weinberg, who runs a search engine
• 10 Reasons why php is still better than Ruby
• Google Analytics might bring 40% of websites down, later this year

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 8th, here are the highlights:

• Smashing Magazine publishes a QA checklist which will help you when launching a website. To be compared with the Web Application checklist published on the iWeb blog.
• a podcast with Timothy Fitz (imvu), and the benefits of continuous deployements in software engineering.
• Twitter traffic explodes, and not being driven by the usual suspects (comscore)
• Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, tells newspapers how to run their business.  M. Schmidt hinted at advertising, micropayments and subscriptions for the newspapers’ business model

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 6th, here are the highlights:

• Facebook has deployed a new architecture to deal with the billions of photos uploaded by users. It’s called Haystack and there’s an interesting article here detailing the setup
• Joshua Schachter, the creator of del.icio.us, writes why url shorteners such as tinyurl or bit.ly are bad the Internet
• User Experience design at Mozilla.org: designing Notifications that integrate with the user’s flow

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 3rd, here are the highlights:

• Smashing Magazine once again publishes a massive post: 10 Simple and Impressive Design Techniques
• If you are worried about Conficker on your PC, here’s a Conficker eye chart, which will allow you to see if your computer is potentially infected or not
• Hulu tries HTML encoding trick to protect streaming content. A programmer found quickly a work-around though
• Digg has launched DiggBar. There’s nothing revolutionnary in the diggbar, however, if you have a portal or a media website, the concept of a browser bar (à la StumbleUpon or Facebook or Digg) can be interesting to keep users in your portal.

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 1st, here are the highlights:

• Firefox 3’s market share now exceeds IE7’s
• a list of 25 Highly anticipated open source releases coming this year
• Ericsson is launching a new broadband wireless card which allows a remote kill switch. It’s for laptop users who would want to disable their laptop in case it gets stolen
• Lots of worry but minimal impact so far for the Conficker worm. The story sounds a lot like the Y2K drama

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For March 30th, here are the highlights:

• 10 Creative & RIch UI interfaces and how to create them
• Skype has released an iPhone application. ReadWriteWeb writes that Skype might be the biggest winner from the web2.0 era
• If you are starting a website, and looking for ways to jumpstart its growth, Jawed Karim tells how YouTube started off

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For March 26th, here are the highlights:

• The odd fate of 25 legendary tech products and services, on Technologizer
• Zend Framework Hello World Dependency Graph (gif). To be compared with other php frameworks
• If you are a publisher, there’s an interesting article on New York Times on the value of clicks and new companies collecting user behavior
• How Google routes around outages
• All five smartphones survive the PWN2OWN hacker competition

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For March 25th, here are the highlights:

• Fast polling using C, memcached, nginx, and libevent, by the development team at plurk
• Psyb0t is the first Linux botnet, targeting routers, broadband equipment and other MIPS devices
• If you’re interested in building a geo-aware service, here’s a free database of geolocated IP addresses
• HP SWFScan is an utility by the HP Security Laboratory to help developers find security vulnerabilities in files produced on the Adobe Flash platform.

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For March 24th, here are the highlights:

• Skype goes corporate with SIP Support, allowing small and big businesses to benefit from Skype low-cost telephony. Another article explains how Skype goes around corporate firewalls
• How to get traffic for your web2.0 application
• The Three20 Project, where an iPhone developer wants to offer open source components for iPhone app development

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For March 23th, here are the highlights:

• Why Advertising is failing on the Internet, an opinion piece on TechCrunch
• XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Prevention Cheat Sheet
• How to write Fast Code (turns out to be optimizing for less code than optimized code)
• Contextual User Interfaces
• Another blog post on how the iPhone is the next desktop platform

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For March 20th, here are the highlights:

• Chrome Experiments is a collection of new and advanced javascript effects. It’s only works though for for Safari 4 and Google Chrome. The website shows us what could be done in the future for website animations and website graphics
• GMail introduces unsend, a feature which allows a user to cancel an email sent. 
• An exhaustive review of LoadImpact.com, a service which allows a webmaster to test the performance and responsiveness of a website under load
• Time introduces Mine, an experimenal magazine which is essentially a customized, printed RSS feed.