Best results of usability testing can be achieved with only 5 users.

The main reason is that it is better to distribute your budget for user testing across many small tests instead of blowing everything on a single, elaborate study. Let us say that you do have the funding to recruit 15 representative customers and…

Ryan Carson's guest post on Techcrunch describing how his team built an app in 4 days while learning new tools.

nice writeup. i’d be psyched to work at a place that did things like this for team-building and morale. i participated in a startup weekend last year and had a blast - it wasn’t the most successful business venture…

Google has released ratproxy to help the web development community analyze potential threats in applications.

Meet ratproxy, our passive web security assessment tool

Since the 70s, Vi is one of the programmers best friend. Nevermind youre new to Vi or not, heres a big list of 100 useful commands, organized by topic, which will make your coder life better.

Hi, my name is Jean-Baptiste Jung and I'm a 26 years old IT professionnal, originally from Paris, France; who now lives in Belgium with my wife and cat Mephisto. Over the past three years, I started various projects, including…

Furthermore, we are forced to trust web applications provider with our data (bookmarks, text documents, chat transcripts, financial info, ? and now health records) that no longer resides on our hard disks, but are stored somewhere in the cloud?.
Its not a nice situation when you have to chose between convenience and freedom.

I’m also currently researching the web apps space to mash up of what I think is important to access for everyone everywhere. So far I haven’t gotten very far as there doesn’t seem to be much choice. I hope something…

SproutCore is but one complete, pure JavaScript framework for building web-based applications. In developing its presentation app called Slides, 280 North wanted to make creating web apps as easy as creating desktop apps in Cocoa. So, the company did the logical thing: ported Cocoa to JavaScript.

With the increased interest in web-based software these days, having at least two complete application frameworks to build applications is a nice luxury. Both are open source, both are based on JavaScript, and neither rely on external…

Theres one thing about Facebook that most people still seem to have wrong: that its a walled garden. Quite the contrary, the Platform allows for full data portability and has since its inception. It actually isnt a walled garden at all. The problem is that this knowledge is buried deep within the FB documentation, a place few developers have wan

Basically, get creative. Its almost silly how many cool things can be done here. Is there any way to leverage group, page, or event data? Check this out: http://bigsight.org/city/nashville_tn/events. This is a display of the events that I…

This API provides easy access to user investment portfolio data, including current returns and market value. The API lets you develop applications that make it easy for your users to monitor their portfolio performance and retrieve data about the investment transactions in their Google Finance portfolio, while keeping portfolio holdings up-to-date.

This API provides easy access to user investment portfolio data, including current returns and market value. The API lets you develop applications that make it easy for your users to monitor their portfolio performance and retrieve data about the…

Presenting the first poker botting erector set: complete sample source code and instructions for building a basic online poker “FoldBot”.

If you've ever worked with EM_STREAMIN before, you know that you have to provide it with a callback function—specifically, an EDITSTREAMCALLBACK function. That's just what the PokerTime client is doing. What we want to do is…

CreateDebate now offers fully customizable RSS & XML debate feeds. Now you can integrate a personalized debate feed into your blog, your website or your Facebook/MySpace profile. If you are a developer interested in building a CreateDebate widget or application, we would love to hear from you!

If you operate your own site, you may want to take advantage of our XML API, which offers more information and greater flexibility. The API documentation explains the parameters and values that can be used to query our servers. It also explains…

Shmoocon, as they describe themselves, is an annual East coast hacker convention hell-bent on offering three days of an interesting atmosphere for demonstrating technology exploitation, inventive software & hardware solutions, and open discussions of critical infosec issues.
Here are the videos from Shmoocon 2006

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To help you get on your way to developing highly-interactive web applications using MooTools, heres 20 tutorials and working examples thats worth a read.

Chaining is beneficial for several reasons including the ability to sequentially execute events ("in a chain") as well as reduce the number of lines of code you have to write. If you’re wondering about the…

Heres an oldie but very goodie from Ryan back from Oct 2004: An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design. If you havent seen it yet its new to you.

When you build the real thing you sometimes see that what worked on paper just isn't quite right on screen. In the final design I shifted the Company data (A) around for better balance and switched the sidebar (E,F,H) from the…

This is a really cool plug-in for jQuery. It converts a tree of list element into a Form control w/full keyboard support. It basically works like an select element, but contains a full tree control.

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