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Web vocabulary

December 29th, 2009 by Arlo | Add a Comment »

One interesting aspect of working with the Internet is watching the technology evolve faster than the vocabulary used to describe it. We’ve all seen new terms like “blog” and “podcast” become instantly popular, but what about technology that hasn’t even been named yet? I’m not creative enough to come up with the names, but I’ll start a list of the concepts that need naming: (more…)

OOP in 09

December 17th, 2009 by Arlo | Add a Comment »

As a web developer I’m constantly looking for ways to improve my techniques, and one big change I made this year worked out better than expected. For the two large sites I built from the ground up this year (and a third, smaller site), I used Object Oriented Programming (OOP) for the first time. (more…)