Why Multitasking is a Waste of Time- June 30, 2008 You often hear people extolling the virtues of multitasking: you get more done, It&8217;s the way of the future. Balls. Multitasking is great if you want to fill your time doing a lots of things not very well, over a long period of time. Sure you can: flicking between checking your email, Twittering, writing a report, ...http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=bf8754f3fb53ca5f1122e8e9d97265e0 Why The 10 Commandments Of Web Design Are Complete Baloney- June 30, 2008 I read this morning in the SitePoint Industry News forum that BusinessWeek had compiled what is being referred to as The 10 Commandments of Web Design. The experts who contributed to this list include widely read authors and speakers like Dan Cederholm, Dave Shea, Khoi Vinh and Jeffrey Zeldman. Here it is: 1. Thou shalt not abuse ...http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=e034b91377787dbd2f3912f9bba71dee CSS Theme Week And Thats All Folks!- June 27, 2008 We conclude our first ever CSS-themed week with a classic article that collates the most important CSS positioning properties. Nigel Peck&8217;s article CSS Positioning Properties At-A-Glance Guide was first published back in 2003, but five years later still stands strong as a compact summary of the basics of CSS positioning (although we updated a few points ...http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=6616b36c22c18d34d77ce06184c0491c The Week in ColdFusion: 18-24 June: CFML, Fast and Furious- June 27, 2008 One of the big topics this week has been the announcement of the CFML Advisory Committee at CFUnited. This group, headed up by Sean Corfield, includes members of the Adobe ColdFusion community and the Railo community, but notably no one from the Open BlueDragon camp. Ben Forta has posted his thoughts on the committee, and ...http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=869ecc2c94b53ebdeccd222b53d1894b Get Out and Boogie on the Customer Service Dance Floor!- June 26, 2008 One part of my role at SitePoint is to manage our Customer Support team. I often refer to this team as being &8220;on the dance floor&8221; with our visitors and customers, while as managers were just &8220;sitting on the balcony&8221;. I use this analogy because, as anyone whos been to a nightclub knows, on that ...http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=0f5191460b1fc4d75ce353c990ae1045 CSS Animation: The Ultimate Web Design Easter Egg- June 25, 2008 Our third tutorial for CSS Theme Week went live today &8212; a new article titled Warning: This Secret CSS Technique Could Surprise You!. Read previous articles from CSS Theme Week: Monday: Nifty Navigation Tricks Using CSS Tuesday: Breaking Out of the Box With CSS Layouts Today&8217;s article was written by our own Alex Walker, a man with an unhealthy ...http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=956d673405fb90e6400bb8f9fe401650 BBC Rejects hCalendar Microformat Because Of Accessibility Concerns- June 25, 2008 The BBC have announced that they&8217;ll be removing hCalendar microformats from their online programme listings, because of the accessibility issues with the ABBR design pattern. To summarise the problem: some microformats use the title attribute of an &60;abbr&62; element to store ISO format dates, as machine-readable expansions of dates written in natural language, for example: Meeting to ...http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=197b4cb1ce8a5d1999c37e139f85c3ad SproutCore: JavaScript Applications- June 24, 2008 Revealed by Apple at the recent WWDC as the basis of the MobileMe web applications, is the newest member of the JavaScript framework fraternity: SproutCore. I&8217;m pretty sure that if I told you SproutCore was yet another JavaScript framework for creating rich browser application interfaces, you&8217;d prefer to scrub your eyeballs with steel wool than ...http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=bed5e701db66db667b2549d49bc0a3ae |