Select drop downs slow in Chrome

The dev team and I just spent a long afternoon debugging an issue in Chrome, so we have to share the solution with you. This problem was evident in Chrome, but did not appear in Firefox. On an HTML page with a large amount of content, select drop down menus were behaving very sluggishly. After clicking it would take

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"Ahhhhh!" is the sound of countless SEO companies crying out in anguish, according to this article from CNET. This is a good thing for the internet I feel. How often have you done a Google search and ended up on a circular journey through link farms and affiliate sites, trying to find the actual answer to your query

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How much will a website cost me?

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  • December 2, 2011
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"About as much as a car." Is my standard answer to this question. In fact, if this question comes up early in the discussion then it's a red flag to me and my team that this client is going to need help with understanding exactly what we do here. A good web development company is far more than a team of developers wh

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Head in the clouds

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  • November 24, 2011
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Putting an application in "The Cloud" is something I've been hearing a lot about lately, but what does this mean? In the good old days (about 5 years ago... a lifetime in internet years), the standard way to host your web site would be on a web server. A web server is just a computer like the computer you are using

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Mobile customers

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  • November 24, 2011
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"We need an app!" Is what I hear when many business owners start talking about their online presence. This is the wrong way to think, don't put the technology in front of your business objectives. Instead, think more like this: "We need to be available to users when they are on the road". That sounds like a better t

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PHP, ASP, JSP…. should I care?

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  • November 21, 2011
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Short answer: No. Long answer: Nooooooooooooooooooo. The acronyms above are probably some of many that you hear when talking to developers. "ASP.NET sucks!", "Java is expensive!", "PHP is for babies!", etc... At the end of the day as far as the end-user (the person using your website) is concerned, this doesn't make

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Programming as poetry?

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  • November 21, 2011
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“The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.” ― Frederick P

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What’s in a name?

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  • November 15, 2011
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"Bitcraft", thats us. Do you like our name? It's a portmanteau of 2 words. BIT and CRAFT. What do those words mean? A bit is the fundamental unit of any computation. It's a 1 or a 0, on or off. 8 bits together make a byte. That byte can represent a letter or a simple colour. 1024 bytes make a kilobyte, which can repre

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