Jimmy Atkinson from the Dedicated Hosting Guide alerted me yesterday to his latest post, 14 Good Hosting Options for Hardcore Developers. Finding truly reliable web hosting can be a challenge, so I welcome these types of articles that roll up features, benefits and first hand experiences into a helpful resource. The DedicatedHostingGuide.net website […]

After reading about some recent network issues at DreamHost, I decided it was time to up the ante on my server uptime monitoring and reporting to make sure that I'm notified if there's an issue with any of my hosts. I went with an account at Pingdom after reading some favorable reviews. I signed up […]

Embedding Flash video is so much easier than I had previously thought. All you need:

A Flash video player. Have a look at Jeroen Wijering's Flash Video Player, or the FLV Player website.
Flash 8, or a Flash Video converter like Riva (to create .flv files).

Simply drop the OBJECT tag code into your HTML page and set […]

Some of you may have noticed: CBC.ca launched a redesign this week. CBC is my home page and frankly, the jury is still out on what I think about the new design. Part of my resistance to it is just the human reluctance to change. Once I get beyond that, I'll be able to evaluate […]

Here are a couple of useful typography links:

Typography for Headlines (the post | the examples)
25 Best Free Quality Fonts

I find it interesting that we went through a design trend a couple of years ago that utilized especially small fonts (pixel fonts), but today it's BIG typography that rules all those web 2.0-ish and Rails inspired […]

Sure, I could have called the web host and had them reset the password to the shared hosting account I was trying to access via FTP, but they're great guys and I prefer to bug them over more serious issues. So, how to recover my lost Dreamweaver FTP password? It was actually incredibly easy: I […]