“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.”

“As a result of the Great Book Giveaway Contest, 485 comments were collected, each with a link to a favorite article, web site or weblog entry relating to web standards.”

“The year 2005 was rich on fresh, inspiring and useful Web-Development-Resources. Here is the list of the 25 sites you probably shouldn’t have missed in 2005. The resources listed below are as useful as the resources listed on the top of the list.”

“2006 is just around the corner, and that means that it is time to bring some (vague) predictions for this web business we are in. The AJAX hype will go on — but eventually fail. The rather sickening hype of AJAX is going to continue, and it will get very big in the first 6-8 months of 2006. But, as the end of 2006 nears AJAX, is going to fail. The reason is not because of AJAX itself…”

“After reading Cameron and Andy’s predictions for the coming year I was not convinced that they were telling us everything, holding back and protecting us from some future horror. So I enlisted the aid of Taco Bell to help induce a nacho cheese hallucinogenic state where I was able to see into the future with eyes unclouded. Here is what I saw…”

“Curious about what technologies and techniques are going to be popular in the coming months and into the next year? Well, our crack team of editors here at dashes.com (that is to say, me) have assembled a list of up-and-coming trends that you should keep an eye on. Call it vocational education for people building Web 2.0.”

“At User Experience Week, August 22-25 in Washington, D.C., Eric Costello will join us for a talk on the evolution of Flickr, the wildly successful photo sharing site that has become one of the most talked-about examples of the next generation of Web applications. Adaptive Path’s Jesse James Garrett recently talked with Eric about Flickr’s past, present, and future.”

“One of the most interesting parts of the whole enterprise for me was his articulation of some clear levels of abstraction between database work, business logic, page logic, page mark-up and the presentation layer. It’s not an enormously novel set of distinctions I guess, but the level of clarity about each area really appeals to me. It’s an architecture that really supports the rapidly iterative way of operating that I enjoy and think is core to developing great online applications.”

“CodeZoo exists to help you find high-quality, freely available, reusable components, getting you past the repetitive parts of coding, and onto the rest and the best of your projects. It’s a fast-forward button for your compiler.” (See also: “Some notes on the building of CodeZoo“)

“Back when I was first paid to build web-based applications (around 1998 or so), the world of Web Development as we know it today did not exist. When I began working my first post-college full-time job, things had improved a bit. I learned all that fancy JavaScript, VBScript, Applets, and ActiveX stuff. But I couldn”t really put it to use because the cross-platform and cross-browser support was horrible. I swore off DHTML and went on with life, focusing more on the backend and server side stuff (Perl, Oracle/MySQL, etc).”

“Recently I gathered feedback from several experts within the web industry and asked them to give me their top 10 favorite web companies to work for. There is no criteria here as to who does and who does not qualify. They can be sole proprietorships or large multi-national corporations. They can be an army of freelancers working remotely from their homes or bona fide employees under the same roof with benefits and perhaps stock options. With that said, here are the results…”

“Yesterday I started reading Paul Graham’s Hackers and Painters, and it is wonderful. It literally is changing my perspective about how I think about the world we live in, and where we want to go from here.”

“So you want to build a web application? Well, so do I. I’ve built them before and I’ll build them again but I have a specific project in mind this time and I thought I’d share my experiences with you.”

“I received an email today asking how I test my web development work across multiple browsers and platforms, so I thought Iíd post a public response for others to potentially benefit from.”

“Like the world around us, Web projects can be a risky business. They can be big, complicated, time-consuming affairs. When you start out, you are faced with many unknowns. The success of a project can depend on external factorsósuch as clients, partners, or other stakeholdersóthat you have no control over. Put simply, projects can go wrong for a whole host of reasons.”