Web Developers – Dealing With Your Clients
I’d like to discuss how to properly deal with your clients, setting expectations and holding everyone accountable. Defining the Rolls and Creating Goals During your initial meeting with the client, after they’ve agreed to hire you, you need to define everyone’s role in the project. You should create a spreadsheet with deliverables, and assign a [...]
The Top 3 Pitfalls Of Outsourcing Your Web Development
Every day, thousands of businesses like yours make the same critical mistakes when outsourcing their software or web development. Mistake #1: Assuming that the outsource company you are working with can read your mind. Most outsource vendors expect complete requirements before they start the work, and will charge you for every additional change, regardless of [...]
Nettuts.com: 10 Most Sought-after Skills in Web Development
In a time of economic crisis, web developers and freelancers everywhere have started chewing their fingernails. However, no matter how bad the economy worsens, there will always be work in certain booming fields of web development.
As the moderator of the Freelance Switch job board, there are certain types of jobs that are constantly in demand. Here are the 10 skills that are or will be in highest demand for developers. If you are proficient in these skills, you’ll be in a great position to find work and weather any economic downturn.
Nettuts.com – 10 Smart Javascript Techniques to Improve Your UI
Over at NetTuts.com, they’ve posted a useful arcticle discussing 10 smart javascript techniques to improve your UI.
Javascript can add a lot of special effects that can really improve the user’s experience. Here are 10 simple and clever Javascript techniques that add an extra dose of usability to any webpage.
Javascript is typically used as an aesthetic language in web development. This means that web developers should almost always be using Javascript for one thing only: Improving the visitor’s experience. There are many clever and useful ways to improve a site from the user interface perspective. A developer can find nearly any snippet of Javascript to achieve what he or she wants to accomplish.
DevShed.com: Getting Started with Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails differs from other technologies in the aspect that, while other enterprise technologies give more stress on configuration, RoR stresses convention, thus eliminating the need for lengthy configuration files based on XML. The base of RoR being Ruby gives it one more advantage, the advantage of working with a Very High Level Language. [...]
Developer Works: Fast-track your Web apps with Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails is a recent entry into the world of Web application development that is rapidly gaining mindshare, even while still in beta versions. Rails succeeds by automating the creation of the most common types of Web applications while not straightjacketing you if you want to add custom or atypical requirements. Moreover, compared to [...]
Hiveminds: How to Bridge PHP and Java for Powerful Web Solutions
Hiveminds has published a new tutorial today that looks at bridging the gap between Java and PHP by allowing the execution of Java jar files from within PHP. Here’s how to team up two of the most popular and powerful platforms for web development together. With the php-java bridge you can build classes and jar [...]
Google SEO Basics for Beginners
IntroductionAs many of us web developers already know, Google is rated by many as the number one search engine in the world. We personally know that our websites get about 90% of their search engine traffic direct from Google searches.Getting indexed by Google can be a pain, but getting highly placed rankings for specific keywords [...]
