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10 ways to become an IT superstar
You have long years of experience in the IT field and you really know your stuff. But when you go to conferences or offer to speak to local user groups, nobody knows your name and you can?ˆ™t command the high consulting rates the IT superstars are bringing in. How do you establish yourself as an expert in this industry and build a reputation outside your own organization? It requires a lot more than just being good at your job. Here are 10 things you can do to get yourself recognized as one of the IT elite.

Software downloads: Most popular of 2010
Check out TechRepublic?ˆ™s top 10 software downloads of 2010. Featured topics include file recovery, registry cleaning and repair, antivirus, and maintenance software. (Notes: This list is based on number of downloads. Also, I link to the latest version of the download that is in TechRepublic?ˆ™s Software Downloads directory.)

Changing Permissions
On computer filesystems, different files and directories have permissions that specify who and what can read, write, modify and access them. This is important because WordPress may need access to write to files in your wp-content directory to enable certain functions.

Fight Div
Years ago, HTML tables were the standard for laying out web pages. CSS and semantic thinking changed that, and today CSS frameworks make designing relatively easy. But they can also generate a surprising number of superfluous elements. The 960 Grid System encourages the addition of elements and class attributes, especially on complicated pages. Is this really an improvement over nested tables? Creating cleaner code means going beyond the framework and thinking about what it really represents.

Google PageRank
Everybody is using it, but (almost) nobody really knows how it works. Google PageRank is probably one of the most important algorithms ever developed for the Web. With billions of existing pages and millions of pages generated every day, the search issue in the Web is more complex than you probably think it is. PageRank, only one of hundreds of factors used by Google to determine best search results, helps to keep our search clean and efficient. But how is it actually done? How does Google PageRank work, which factors do have an impact on it and which dont? And what do we really know about PageRank? In this article we put the facts straight. Over the last weeks we have done an extensive research and selected dozens of facts and suggestions about PageRank, which seem to be true in practice. Besides, we have collected academic papers related to the issue – such as scientific proposals for better search results (such as Topic-Sensitive PageRank); you will also find references to mathematical background of PageRank as well as 16 useful PageRank tools you can use to analyze und track the ranking of your web-projects.

5 Web Design Apps
Windows Web Design Apps

How to recognise a good programmer

How do you recognise good programmers if you’re a business guy? It’s not as easy as it sounds. CV experience is only of limited use here, because great programmers don’t always have the “official” experience to demonstrate that they’re great. In fact, a lot of that CV experience can be misleading. Yet there are a number of subtle cues that you can get, even from the CV, to figure out whether someone’s a great programmer.

101 Great Computer Programming Quotes

101 Great Computer Programming Quotes

How can I get rich just programming (see also worl

What are the known cases where a programmer (just by programming) can become rich.

Clock
Clock Gallery ClockLink.com provides fashionable clocks that you can easily embed in your web page. All you need to do is simply paste the tag on your web page. Our clock will display the city name of your choice if you choose. You can also choose a time zone for your clock so it will show the correct time. Decorate your website with PSPs free Flash clocks on ClockLink.com!

Skype Hidden Icon
Did you know that Skype have hidden emoticons? No! Below is a list of the all hidden emoticons that I know and use chatting with my friends.

How to become an iPhone developer in eight easy st
How to become an iPhone developer in eight easy steps

Take Extraordinary Photographs
SitePoint?ˆ™s latest book release, Photography for the Web, contains a wealth of information that will help you take stunning pictures and share them online. It will show you how to save a fortune on stock images by designing and capturing your very own shots. We?ˆ™re making Chapters 1 and 2 of Photography for the Web available as part of the free sample PDF of the book. This article is an excerpt from those chapters, focusing on the basic principles of layout, lighting, and composition. Read on to start learning how to use your camera to your advantage. Or download the free sample to read it and the rest of the chapter offline at your convenience.

Take Extraordinary Photographs 2
Photography for the Web by Paul Duncanson is the latest release from the SitePoint book publishing stable. It contains all you need to know to transform photos taken on your standard camera into gorgeous images that impress. You may already know that we?ˆ™ve made Chapters 1 and 2 available as part of the free sample PDF of the book, and a few weeks ago we ran an article on Exposure, taken from the book. This article is an excerpt from chapter 2, addressing the principles of composition. Read on to learn more, or download the free sample to read both chapters offline at your convenience.

VBTips
87 tips of Visual Basic.

Discussing PHP Frameworks: What, When, Why and Whi
PHP is the world?ˆ™s most popular scripting language for many different reasons ?ˆ“ flexibility, ease-of-use, among others ?ˆ“ but often times coding in PHP, or any language for that matter, can get rather monotonous and repetitive. That?ˆ™s where a PHP framework can help.

20 Sites That Brought CSS
20 Sites That Brought CSS into the Mainstream

20 Free Text Editors
Rich-text editors, also known as online rich-text editors, are web components that allow users to edit and enter text within a web browser. Rich-text editors are used in numerous ways such as in enhancing your comment input form or as part of a web application that allows entry of user-generated and formatted content. Rich-text editors are essentially web-based WYSIWYG (???what you see is what you get???) editors. There are many rich-text editors out there. What???s even better than a lot of choices? Many of the best rich-text editors currently in the market are free. In this article, we present 20 exceptional (and free) rich-text editors.

New in IE9
Beauty of the Web! Beauty of the Web? What is Microsoft talking about? ?ˆ?Beauty of the Web?ˆ? is a key phrase Microsoft is using to describe the recently released beta version of Internet Explorer 9. Is this some sort of new fandangled marketing mumbo jumbo, or is it true? Does Microsoft really think IE9 will make the Web more beautiful? The dedicated website beautyoftheweb.com makes me think this is worth exploring. Let?ˆ™s take a trip through what?ˆ™s new in IE9 ?ˆ¦ Don?ˆ™t forget to take the quiz at the end!

Add-ons for Designers
As a webdesigner (and technologically savvy user of the Internet), there is no excuse for you not to be using Firefox as your primary web browser. If you arent using Firefox yet, you need to go and download it right now. Not only does Firefox provide a top of the line Internet browsing experience, but it also provides an endless amount of functionality that you simply wont find in any other Internet browser. Because third parties can develop add-ons for Firefox, by downloading the best add-ons that are available, you can transform Firefox into a tool that dramatically increases your productivity and saves you a countless amount of time.?Since there are so many different add-ons available to download, it can be a little overwhelming to pick out which ones you should be using. Therefore, I decided to do all of the legwork for you and compile a list of the six best Firefox add-ons for web designers.

JSF Application Lifecycle
In this second article in his four-part JSF for nonbelievers series, Rick Hightower introduces the major phases of the JavaServer Faces (JSF) request processing lifecycle. Using a sample application, he walks you through the six phases of a request process. Along the way, he shows you how to combine JSF with JavaScript technology for immediate event handling and completes your introduction to the JSF component model with a first look at many of the components that ship with JSF.

CSS Bugs in Firefox 3.x
There arent many articles covering incompatibilities, or CSS differences in Firefox alone and for good reason. Firefox has always done an excellent good job of supporting both CSS and JavaScript in a standards-compliant manner without too many awkward bugs. There are, however, a few CSS properties and selectors that arent supported by one or more of the versions released since version 3.0., which I will cover here. This article will cover bugs, inconsistencies, and nonsupport. So, if youre having trouble with a CSS property or selector in Firefox and its not listed here, then youll probably have to rethink your layout and reconsider what the culprit might be.

Operating Systems
A Graphical User Interface (GUI for short) allows users to interact with the computer hardware in a user friendly way. Over the years a range of GUIs have been developed for different operating systems such as OS/2, Macintosh, Windowsamiga, Linux, Symbian OS, and more. Well be taking a look at the evolution of the interface designs of the major operating systems since the 80s. I should mention that this article showcases only the significant advances in GUI design (not operating system advances) and also not all of the graphical user interfaces and operating systems existing today.

Free Design Platforms
Website builders have been gaining more popularity and traction lately, thanks to services such as Wix and Webnode. These online website creators allow you to create a full website, free of charge, directly in your browser without any prior knowledge of website development. Many of these services also offer premium packages with additional features, for a small cost per month, if you desire additional tools. The biggest advantage in using these services is the unbeatable development speed, as it all happens in your browser with click-and-drag functionality. If youre not a web designer or a creative person but need an easy and affordable solution to creating a website, try one of these free programs.

Choose The Right CMS
Content Management Systems have become one the internets most powerful web developer tools since PHP. In a market where websites need to be built faster and easier, many developers are turning to Open Source CMS to get the job done. Unfortunately there are now thousands of CMS???s floating around the web and finding the right one has become somewhat of an ordeal. This article will discuss how developers can find the right CMS for any occasion and will give a review of some of the best CMSs I have discovered, as well as recommendations on which CMS to avoid like the plague.

PHP Template Engines
19 Promising PHP Template Engines, Content Management Systems have become one the internets most powerful web developer tools since PHP. In a market where websites need to be built faster and easier, many developers are turning to Open Source CMS to get the job done. Unfortunately there are now thousands of CMS???s floating around the web and finding the right one has become somewhat of an ordeal. This article will discuss how developers can find the right CMS for any occasion and will give a review of some of the best CMSs I have discovered, as well as recommendations on which CMS to avoid like the plague.