Launching a Successful Online Community

I recently participated in an online discussion among higher education web professionals around the topic of launching an internal online community, and while the discussion was focused specifically on online communties for groups like university alumni networks, it’s probably fair to say that at a broad level the same principles apply no matter what your [...]

Adding iPhone Apps to the Mix

The New York Times recently profiled a few developers who made it big selling iPhone apps, and while it’s becoming tough to compete in what is quickly become a saturated market, we are still in the very early days and there are still plenty of opportunities to be had in the world of iPhone and [...]

Real-time Web Analytics – The Woopra Advantage

There’s a change happening in the world of web analytics – there’s a new kid on the block that’s changing the game in subtle ways: real-time data. Where the previously predominant model of data tracking came from once-daily reporting of data, a new breed of analytics is emerging thanks in part to the likes of [...]

Top 10 links for December Week 1 – 2008

Here is the first installment of our top 10 links for the week – a selection of ten links we see as being very useful and important to the web development/business crowd.  This list covers both technical articles for developers and higher level business ones. 10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks for WordPress – Smashingmagazine Great [...]

5 tips and tools to optimize your php application – Part 1 simple

With php becoming a more mature language and frameworks becoming a standard practice, it’s increasingly important to analyze your code and test the performance where possible. Frameworks and libraries can speed up the development time and make code maintenance simpler, but it’s important you understand how they work.  It’s not just the framework itself but [...]