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Should you attend university for web development?

For those considering going to university to study web development or a course related to the web industry, Jeffrey Way’s article over at Nettuts+ is definitely worth a read.

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Trouble upgrading Wordpress on Media Temple?

Are you having trouble using the automatic upgrade functionality of Wordpress on your Media Temple hosting? Try setting the PHP ’safe mode’ to off, and it should solve your problems of ‘Could not create temporary file’. Thanks to invi2003 for coming up with the solution.

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Domain names

The chances are that the domain name you want is now taken, especially .com domain names. Which begs the question; are domain names that end in anything other than .com any good?

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Twitter tweets on your website; a good idea?

I have seen a growing number of websites displaying the author’s latest tweets from Twitter. When I started looking at redeveloping this website I was considering doing the same, until I realised the potential problems it could cause.

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How to get that first web development job

You’ve just graduated from university, or college and you want to get a job as a web developer / web designer, but it turns out it’s much harder than you realised. So how do you get that first job as a web developer?

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Web Development Project Estimator

The Web Development Project Estimator is a simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project.

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From Steve Jobs with love

An open letter from Steve Jobs quashing rumours about his health.

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App stats from 2008

I thought I’d share with you various statistics that I have been able to collate from web applications that I use regularly, and try to compare them to the statistics of 2007.

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Study shows that a website’s usability is still crucial to success

A new survey, conducted by digital consultancy Rawnet, shows that surfers are dissuaded from using companies due to poor-quality and difficult-to-use websites. [Via]

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Facebook embraces Talk Like A Pirate Day

As the scurvy dog, Michael Arrington points out over on the Techcrunch blog, Facebook have added a Talk Like A Pirate translation in honour of the day.

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Help Ryan look dumb!

Ryan Carson of Carsonified fame is getting his head shaved this Thursday. Show your support and donate what you can.

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Microsoft sees end of Windows era

Microsoft sees end of Windows era. It’s all change since Bill G stepped down.

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del.icio.us has some new threads

Check out del.icio.us’ new interface.

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Microsoft backs open source work

Microsoft backs open source work.

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Boom times ahead for mobile web

Boom times ahead for mobile web predicts Intel

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