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Amazon MTurk. 30 More Helpful Video Tutorials For Web Developers. You can find a good tutorial on just about any subject of web development, but great video tutorials are much less common. Here are a few great tutorials that any developer can use to brush up on various topics like iPhone development, frameworks, jQuery, CSS and more. 1.

Write Your First PHP Script KillerPHP has compiled a simple, informative screencast on how to create a tidy little "Hello world" PHP script. Great for novices and those wanting to brush up on their PHP practices. 2. Nearly every developer has, at some point, hacked a Wordpress theme or plugin in their day. 3. Popular IDE NetBeans is a great choice for developing many types of sites and services, and this tutorial showcases the speed and ease creating a web service with NetBeans is. 4. Object-Oriented PHP (OOP) is, in most cases, the best way to write a PHP application. 5. jQuery For Absolute Beginners Video Series ThemeForest has an incredible video series on jQuery for Beginners by NETTUTS' editor Jeffrey Way. 6. 7. 8. Make a Free Website or Blog | Lifeyo. Online tools and applications - Go2web20. Beginners Guide to Flash.

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There is a lot of technicalities when we talk about The Open Source movement, and we are not covering them here in detail, so please forgive me if I am not being formal enough with all the terminology. You will find the name of the project, a lovely screenshot (who doesn’t love screenshots?) , the Development Status (I’ve included from Beta to mature ones) and the supported platforms. Please notice that some of the projects may have restricted license use; before using a particular software, check first if the intended use is allowed. As I said before, maybe they won’t replace your commercial apps, but some of them are worth keeping and eye on since they are in constant evolution. Editors Scribus Overview | Download Digikam Production/Stable Linux, Unix WebPic. Upload Files, MP3, Music. Free File Hosting To Share Files. Ip Tools, DNS tools, internet tools, WHOIS, traceroute, ping, domain name tools. 22 Things You Don't Know About Your Customers | Internet Marketing Strategy: Conversation Marketing.

There are things you don’t know about your customers. It’s not you, it’s them. But you need to figure it out. Here are some hard lessons I’ve learned over the years – they apply to usability, pet peeves and other fun stuff. Learn these and you’ll have more, happier customers/visitors/readers/fans: 1. Reading onscreen is hard, for everyone The most basic principle of usability: It’s hard for folks to read online. 2. Oldest rule of marketing, from way back when we printed on paper and used mail and stuff: Write no more than 4-5 lines in a paragraph. To learn just how little the rules have changed. 3. Reading onscreen is hard. 4. Also know as ‘leading’, wide line spacing makes text easier to read. 5. We are trained to read dark text on a light background. 6. With those nifty mouse wheels, folks stopped getting unhappy about scrolling – it’s no longer a usability issue, unless you create a 5000 word page or some silliness. 7.

Red;Green;Blue. Your audience wants the latter. 8. 9. Seriously. 10. 11 Outstanding Online Resources for Web Developers. This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. If you're a web developer, you're almost certainly constantly looking for ways to improve your skills, expand your technology arsenal, and keep on top of the latest trends in development and design. Whether you need to pick up a new coding language, get informed about new standards, brush up on best practices, or simply get inspired by great examples from your peers, we've collated a number of great resources to help you stay at the top of your game.

Have a look at some of the online repositories for great development information and inspiration below, and be sure to tell us about any other trusted sources we haven't included in the list that other developers should check out. 1. W3 Schools 2. 3. Now a property of Wired Digital, Webmonkey has been a resource to developers on the web with a long and storied history stretching back to 1996. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Demos. Data Visualization Framework. Framework Expressive Axiis gives developers the ability to expressively define their data visualizations through concise and intuitive markup. Axiis has been designed with a specific focus on elegant code, where your code can be just as beautiful as your visual output.

Concise By leveraging {inline} Flex Binding and the Axiis markup syntax you don't need to write volumes of code to produce amazing results. In fact, some of the more complex Axiis examples have no more than 200 lines of code. Modular Axiis was designed to be a granular framework, allowing developers to mix and match components and build complex output by compositing together basic building blocks.

Open Source Axiis is an open source project, under an MIT license. Want to Contribute? If you are interested in helping us with Axiis we would love to talk to you. (Hint, blog links, and/or references to prior work or studies would be warmly received.) Team Background Tom Gonzalez You can reach Tom at - tom[at]axiis[dot]org Special Thanks.