How companies generate their revenues using social media – case studies

There are a lot of articles teaching you how digital campaign should be designed, planned or managed. But not so many bloggers are writing about real-life case studies, which show how most experienced companies are using social media to boost their revenues. I decided to gather the information I found and give you some idea on how it works.
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How to debug your HTML/CSS and why Firebug is no longer the obvious web developer tool

Back in the days when I started making webpages, the only way to monitor your progress was a tedious routine of switching between the code editor and the browser, and reloading, reloading, reloading. Luckily nowadays, it’s really easy to check, edit and see the results just in your browser. For example, checking the “Develop menu” in the advanced preferences of Safari 4 enables interesting debugging features. In order have similar tools in Firefox, you have to install the Firebug plug-in. And in Google Chrome or Opera, these tools are available out-of-the-box. But which browser and code inspector should you choose? Continue reading on Foture

Twitter @Anywhere platform quick introduction

Twitter announced its @Anywhere platform on the Chirp conference and I decided to give it a quick try on my blog. It turns out the platform is extremely easy to start with, has 3 primary and very useful features, and it takes only 15 minutes to implement them on the site. In this post I’ll guide you through the improvements I’ve made using @Anywhere.

Run Windows apps on the Mac using WineBottler

I recently stumbled upon an interesting application called the WineBottler that emulates Windows apps on the Mac. It’s similar in the behavior to Codeweavers Crossover, but it’s free and open source.

15 Quick Tips for Developers and Designers

I’m a developer and a designer. During my work I stumble upon these small problems that consume the most of our time, in respect to what they are. I try to solve them, and then I post answers to these as Quick Tips on my Twitter. I accumulated enough to post the first batch as an article. Do you have problems with your LAMP after upgrading to Snow Leopard? Do you want to know more about MySQL administration? Want some tips for CSS in Safari? This, and more, after the jump.

Ultimate Web Developer Icon Set

Here you have a list of the most comprehensive, well designed and extremely usable icon packs available for free, including a commercial license. These icons will have you set in your small and big projects, and their common symbols will create a nice environment for your users. I created this list from the icons I’ve been using over the years and I think they are an essential pack for every web developer. Enjoy!

Rant about developers or how I stopped worrying and love the simplicity

I recently read a quote that in the 60’s we were able to launch rockets to the Moon with just two Commodore 64’s, while now we need a 2 GHz Pentium 4 to barely launch Windows Vista. What went wrong?

Simple Template System in Perl

By now you should know I am a fan of everything simple. I casted an opinion that frameworks, while useful, are overcomplicated and create an unnecessary load on your project, unless it reaches a certain amount of complexity. And one of the most used frameworks, are the template frameworks. Thus, it would be great to have a dead simple template system, that just works. And that’s what I am going to show you today.

Don’t use IDs in CSS

In CSS, you can assign styles to elements in 3 ways: either by a direct reference to an HTML tag, or by a class attribute, or finally, by the id attribute. Each of these approaches has it’s pros and cons, but in this article, I’ll highlight why you should avoid using styling by #id. In fact, you shouldn’t base your style design on id attributes at all.

Wolfram|Alpha launching today and what it means for Google and search

Wolfram|Alpha knowledge search engine is set to launch online today, May 15, with a live webcast beginning at 7pm CST. A lot of hype has been made around this new project by the iconic Stephen Wolfram and his team most widely known for their brilliant Mathematica package and online math encyclopedia. We have seen a lot of attempts to create a Google killer, the last being the unfortunate Cuil. But Wolfram|Alpha is anything but a search engine — it’s not a Google killer, it’s the future.