Linux: Which flavor is best?

The internet has really opened up opportunities for self-teaching. Many great web developers have never so much as set foot into a college IT course (myself included) but instead, out of interest or necessity, learned to sling HTML, PHP, or whatever else, on their own. Big thick tech books used to be my first step…

Mambo Server CMS also looks like a great CMS to check out if you’re in to CMS. Update: There is a great review of Mambo at ProjectCMS.

Bratta.com & DHTML Central This guy has a great site. The CoolMenus script is probably his most popular… it is easy to implement pull-down menus with his script. Highly customizable.

Our client needed a blog platform that runs on Windows servers, and developed in .NET. While we haven’t yet chosen a solution, I found a few possibilities and wanted to share my research. Ektron CMS4000.NET DasBlog looks interesting, they have been running this project for several years. Blogtronix looks better than DasBlog from a design…

I’m sure many of you have recently noticed in IE, sites with flash have a “Click to Activate” message when you mouse over the flash object. The reason? You guessed it–Microsoft’s latest update. Here’s the fix courtesy of Amara software: Just after the last object in your HTML page, pop in the Javascript link: script…

I asked the designers of a popular new product how they came up with their product name, and they said the reason they picked it was because it was 5 letters, sounded cool, and their girlfriends could remember it the next day. But seriously, I have been pondering product names a lot lately. In doing…