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Microsoft Expression Web 3 is Microsoft’s latest version of their HTML editor aimed at design professionals. The target audience for Expression Web is graphics artists, Web designers, and other professionals who work with Web pages at the code level, but are not going to be writing server side code.

To deliver value, IT departments must keep a tight rein on how they use their budget – and that includes development efforts. Justin James cites some of the most common areas where IT throws its development bucks down the drain.

E-mail client EverDesk Optima aims to change the e-mail game by treating individual e-mails more like documents than traditional e-mail clients do. Sadly, a few glitches plague the product, a few important pieces of functionality are missing, and many users will have a hard time adjusting to its paradigm.

Some users may make unrealistic demands, but most of the time, they just want software that’s easy to use and that works the way it’s supposed to. Justin James itemizes several basic user expectations and ways to address them.

If you’ve ever been the victim of a trendy, totally ineffective management style, you know how silly and arbitrary those techniques can be. Justin James has seen his share of goofy management philosophies — so he decided to invent a few of his own.

Are you striving to be a Senior Developer, an Architect, a Business Analyst, or some other title? Let us know about your career aspirations by taking this poll.

According to Justin James, the big nail in AI’s coffin as a business objective was a lack of demand. He says that the one exception to this rule is video games.

Find out what Justin James really dislikes about programming, and then share your ideas about what direction the programming paradigm should take in the future.

Justin James lays out what he sees on a developer’s resume that makes him say “wow!”… and what makes him say “ugh!”

Microsoft Expression Web has come a long way from its FrontPage roots, while maintaining much of the ease of use that made FrontPage popular with new Web content creators.

Web queries offer a handy way to import data from selected tables into a worksheet–but Excel isn’t as accommodating as it should be, especially when it comes to parameters. These tricks will let you work around Excel’s limitations so that you can get the data you need.