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Project Management

Web survey confirms the obvious

Web Design blog A List Apart has published the results of their first annual survey of web professionals, and the results should surprise absolutely nobody. I'll take this opportunity to break down the results (Warning: statistics ahead).

Developer

Writing and appending to zip archives in Python

Following up from last week's article on reading zip archives, we show you how you can create your own archives using Python.

Developer

Reading zip archives in Python

Zip is the name of a popular file compression algorithm, which lets you both combine multiple files into a single archive and store them on disk using less space. We'll show you how you can open and read zip files in your Python scripts.

Social enterprise

Designing Web applications

SlideShare CEO Rashmi Sinha gives us her advice on designing for Web applications and social networks.

Enterprise Software

IE’s popularity plan

Microsoft's Platform and Security group manager of Internet Explorer, Chris Wilson, talks to us about how IE is planning on stemming the slow fall in market share.

Developer

Schoolgirl builds SecondLife Web app

A new web application AjaxLife allows interaction with the online virtual world SecondLife. The cool part? It was developed in just a week by a fifteen year old English schoolgirl.

Networking

What is Popfly?

Microsoft evangelist and professional geek Nick Hodge gives us the low down on the Silverlight based mashup engine Popfly, and gives us a quick demonstration of it's application building abilities.

Social enterprise

Rashmi Sinha on Slideshare

Rashmi Sinha is the founder and CEO of SlideShare, the online presentation sharing application that has been likened to YouTube for slideshows. We ask her how to make a social networking site work, and how to deal with the problems of increasing popularity.

Networking

The future of mashups

While at Web Directions South we took the opportunity to talk to Adrian Holovaty, creator of the Django framework and founder of EveryBlock, and asked him where he saw the mashup trend heading.

Tech & Work

Kickstarting your startup

We caught up with Mike Canon-Brookes, founder and CEO of Atlassian Software Systems while at Web Directions South and asked him if he had any advice for software developers thinking of starting their own software company.

Recruiting a Scrum Master with the right combination of technical expertise and experience will require a comprehensive screening process. This hiring kit provides a customizable framework your business can use to find, recruit and ultimately hire the right person for the job. This hiring kit from TechRepublic Premium includes a job description, sample interview questions ...

Knowing the terminology associated with Web 3.0 is going to be vital to every IT administrator, developer, network engineer, manager and decision maker in business. This quick glossary will introduce and explain concepts and terms vital to understanding Web 3.0 and the technology that drives and supports it.

While the perfect color palette or the most sublime button shading or myriad of other design features play an important role in any product’s success, user interface design is not enough. Customer engagement and retention requires a strategic plan that attempts to measure, quantify and ultimately create a complete satisfying user experience on both an ...

nickgibson

Web survey confirms the obvious

Writing and appending to zip archives in Python

Reading zip archives in Python

Designing Web applications

IE’s popularity plan

Schoolgirl builds SecondLife Web app

What is Popfly?

Rashmi Sinha on Slideshare

The future of mashups

Kickstarting your startup

How to recruit and hire a Scrum Master

Web 3.0 quick glossary

How to recruit and hire a User Experience Designer

Industrial Internet of Things: Software comparison tool