I recently found UserFly.com, a service which will record videos of the visitors to your site, allowing you to play them back and watch where users go (and how they move their mouse around on the screen).
I was flabbergasted at how easy this was to use – I tried the free version and had recordings [...]

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I get asked this on a fairly regular basis, often by people new to the domain and hosting scene.  I’ve got a lot of domains at GoDaddy that I’ve purchased over the years, but for most new domain purchases I’ve found omnis.com, and I’ve been very happy with them so far (just over a year). [...]

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A few weeks ago, I posted a survey asking for input on the next magazine topic for Web Dev Publishing to pursue.  The results were interesting, but unfortunately the results were not definitive, and I’m left with the same quandry as before – which topic to choose.
The winner of the survey, selected at random, was [...]

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After having spent much time with Groovy/Java, and a bit with Ruby and a bit with C#, I have a newer perspective on learning new programming languages.  Much of my thoughts are summed up by this post from Gustavo Duartes.  I liked his choice of words at the top – “language dabbling” – which largely [...]

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I wrote this to Brian Hitney after we’d briefly touched on cloud computing in my podcast with him last week.  I thought I’d post it here for any reaction from the rest of the internet…
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Another point on the economics that isn’t brought up is the cost of data transfer and data storage in the cloud, which [...]

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I’m turning to the community to help determine what our next magazine topic should be.  Please visit http://webdevpub.com/topics to give your input on what you’d be interested in reading more about.  Entrants who submit an email address will be entered to win an Amazon gift card, to drawn on our around December 9.

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The November JavaScript Mag (JSMag) is now available.  Here’s a quick run down of what’s inside:
* Shea Frederick completes his overview of the IDE landscape for JavaScript developers
* Jay Garcia dives in to the ExtJS Component Lifecycle
* Christian Tiberg explains how to use StorageEngine (YUI) in your apps
* Tom Hughes-Croucher demonstrates making Yahoo Query Language [...]

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I’ve got a PDF watermarking web service I’m considering opening up as a service for others (currently using it internally for my own projects).  If this is something that sounds like it would be of interest to you, let me know.  It should be a pretty easy integration piece, but I’d be interested in getting [...]

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I gave a talk today at the Raleigh Code Camp titled “PHP On Windows”.  It was decently attended, given the attendee focus at a Microsoft-sponsored event.  MS has been embracing PHP much more publicly over the last year or so, and I reviewed some of the steps they’ve been taking (auto-install on IIS7, recent bytecode [...]

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