CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously.

All non-trivial websites need a database, so it pays to build database skills. This entry summarizes 15 years of experience in the important issue of how to assign primary keys to your tables.

Recently, I was involved in changing the database implementation for one of the products. The product had been using the most popular database and there were several reasons ranging from performance goals, maintainability, platform support requirements to licensing cost. After taking a look at several replacement candidates, the team narrowed down to PostgreSQL. The decision eventually became very easy with the availability of PostgreSQL in Solaris 10 and the enterprise ready features of it.

Eclipse started as a Java IDE and evolved into a generic IDE with a strong Java bias. If you start out with a standard Eclipse installation and without any Eclipse experience, it may take you a while to figure out the best way to set it up for use with PHP. This article will make the PHP setup fast and easy.

Progress always comes at a cost. In the case of web browsers, users bear the cost when developers take the rendering of certain authoring tools and browsers (especially Internet Explorer) as gospel. When a new version of that browser comes along and fixes bugs or misinterpretations of the spec (or introduces new ones) or in any way changes behavior, sites break and our clients, bosses, and users get very unhappy.