“With the FREEWARE version of Toad Data Modeler - database design tool, you can create complex entity-relationship diagrams (ERD) for more than twenty databases. You can visually draw new diagrams and generate SQL scripts based on the ER diagrams automatically. “

“This site was created to unite programmers and designers because rarely is a person good at both programming and designing. PMD helps programmers and designers partner up to make websites and web applications that look and work great. It also lets entrepreneurs and writers find people to work with.”

“clickdensity records the position of every click on a page, building up a virtual heat map of visitor activity. But that’s just the start. It also provides user behaviour analysis, segmentation and tracking. Together with a host of other functionality, clickdensity will transform your approach to usability and information architecture.”

“Last week at work we were having a discussion about reporting, and I shared one of my principles when it comes to data collection, which is that logging is nearly always preferable to counting.”

“It can be tricky to identify the right levels of manpower for a web team. Indeed, many organisations badly underestimate the amount of work required to keep their sites operating smoothly–they perhaps imagine that once a website is put live, it magically looks after itself. As a result, only the barest bones of proper staffing are put in place. Fortunately, the problem of defining the number of people required on a web team is not insurmountable. A useful device for arriving at a good answer is the concept of ‘website scale.’”

“I believe that before web applications can truly make the desktop obsolete, we need to solve two important problems. Both might seem a bit surprising at first. Even though Javascript is a mess, neither of these points concerns building better AJAX UIs or frameworks to write them… One of my pet problems is engineering, not science; the second is science, not engineering: 1. Offline Access; 2. Encrypted, searchable storage.”

“It’s our human nature to emulate things that are good. It’s our nature to make things complete. But when forming a market strategy, these tendancies won’t help out much. Too often companies go after market leaders by trying to reach parity in feature sets, or worse, by trying to do a little bit of everything. Below is a diagram analyzing the competitors in online photo sites circa early 2005. I’ve been using this diagram to show that you can compete smartly by not doing what your competitors are doing…”

“Everyone has their own resources and tools they use in their daily life as a web designer + developer. I too as a web designer, have found many resources and useful tools that I find really essential when it comes to creating a website… So I’ve decided to create this small place where we can all share the resources and the most juicy tools out there that we can use to raise our productivity.”

“Last week we introduced the concept of prototyping as a solution to the problem of representing Ajax at the early stages of designing an interface. We talked about some general strategies and attitudes we should take when starting a project (like not being a hero and establishing good relationships with our programmers) and reviewed some fundamental XHTML and CSS skills we should have in our arsenal before beginning the prototyping process.”

“As traffic to chicagocrime.org has steadily increased, I’ve been looking for ways to tweak the site’s performance. The site runs on a rented dedicated server with Apache/mod_python, PostgreSQL and Django… One thing that’s always bugged me is that chicagocrime.org’s Apache instance serves both the dynamic, Django-powered pages and static media files such as the CSS and images. It’s inefficient for a single Apache instance to act as both an application server (mod_python) and a media server… The solution hit me the other day — I can just use Amazon’s new Amazon S3 data-storage service to host chicagocrime.org’s media files, so my own Apache server can focus on serving dynamic pages.”

“Codase is the leading source code search company with advanced source code understanding and xml index/search technologies. Rather than treating code as text, Codase understands programming languages, and treats code as code, the way it’s supposed to be. This unique and syntax-aware approach provides the most accurate and detailed search results with fine granularity levels of controls. With Codase, one can search functions, classes, strings, constants, macros, comments and other programming language constructs.”

“A year ago I have started to improve my web-development skills and share the knowledge I had with the visitors of my blog. Most projects and article I’ve created or written are still popular in the Net — The Web-Developer’s Handbook has become one of the most popular web-sites… The funny thing is that as I was just realizing my ideas in the Web, I didn’t think about getting the page popular, tweaking its position in search engines or finding potential clients on the Web. The basic idea was helping people. First of all, helping me, but also sharing my work with people who might need it…”

“You bring the skills. We bring the ingredients. Welcome to the Yahoo! Developer Network. We help software developers integrate their Web sites and applications with Yahoo! using standard technologies such as XML and RSS.”

“Yahoo! is expanding its distribution network to include you. Based on demand from online publishers, we are opening our Publisher Network to the broader publisher community. Through the expanded platform, we plan to offer unique products and services to publishers of all sizes.”

“Here’s a new years resolution for the web at large: stop doing silly things to users. Following are top trends that I just hope will not see 2007.”