Web Development
Managing Online Forums: A new book by Patrick O’Keefe
A good friend of mine has been working on a book about managing online communities for several years. He’s been actually managing online communities for even longer, since 2000. Patrick O’Keefe run several successful online communities such as SportsForums.net, KarateForums.com, PhotoshopForums.com and BadBoyForums.com.
Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful [...]
Free Usability Report from Nielsen Norman Group
Normally, their reports are fairly expensive but as a holiday gift, Nielsen Norman Group is giving away a 148-page report:
Beyond ALT Text: Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities
I’m a sucker for freebies.
Free Ruby on Rails Book
If you’re interested in learning Ruby on Rails (ROR) then now is the time! For a limited time (60 days), SitePoint is offering Patrick Lenz’s Ruby on Rails book as a free PDF download.
Finally! Magento Commerce is available…
Magento Commerce, the new open-source e-commerce platform I blogged about a few weeks ago has finally been released.
Checkout the demo on their website, or download the beta.
It’s not production ready (so they say) but the demo is very impressive and I’m hard at work installing and configuring on my own server. I’ll have a full [...]
Free PHP Book
It’s probably not new to everyone, but I just found an excellent PHP book posted online as a WIKI:
Practical PHP Programming
It’s a great reference book on PHP, covers PHP5 and is formatted well. It’s supported by a few Google Ads.








