Cloud Computing's Connection With Software-Defined Networking
Software-defined networking is a technology every bit as vital to the further adoption of cloud computing as virtualization. Over the past year or so, cloud computing’s meteoric growth has run into a rather sizable roadblock. I’m speaking, of course, about bandwidth. Source: Web Hosting Articles
Rachel Andrew on the Business of Web Dev: Offering Feedback
Over at Perch we develop the product based on customer feedback. Our method of ordering features is to add the things that will make the most difference to the most people. We gather feedback from our interactions with customers (primarily this happens in our support forums) and try to shape a feature from the specific […]
This week's sponsor: Acuity Scheduling
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Choosing a CMS Your Organization Will Love
The internet doesn’t exactly lack for advice on how to pick a CMS platform. Go for the one with the most impressive feature set, advises one expert. Consider the costs of ownership, charges back another. Make sure it produces SEO-optimized pages, warns every SEO consultant everywhere. Unfortunately, picking the right CMS by consulting generic criteria […]
Object-Oriented UX

In June 2012, while working at CNN.com, I was tasked with designing the user experience of election night. The next five months of my life would be dedicated to that single night—but success to me had nothing to do with who won. I was concerned with findability, data visualization, a shape-shifting canvas, and how the […]