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5 Ways for Web Devs to Make Extra Side Income!

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Being a web developer is usually a pretty awesome, if not time consuming job. However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t things we can’t do in our free time to increase our income some. Let’s take a look at 5 legitimate ways a web developer can make some extra side cash in their free time. Note, all of these require some degree of work and dedication, but like all good things, it’s worth it in the end.

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Tags: Freelancing, web development
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What Makes a Great Web Developer? Twitter Developers Respond.

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Recently, as I was reading some older articles on good programming characteristics, I got to thinking specifically about web developers. The role of a web developer is critical for any website project or application, so I turned my questions to Twitter to get some input. The responses I got were overwhelming and filled with different opinions and advice. I saw this as a great opportunity to discuss what the development community thinks makes a great web developer. Let’s take a look at the findings!

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Want to test IE6 on Windows Vista?

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Previous to my current laptop, I had Windows XP for my computer, and because of this I could always install IE6 without a problem. A problem arose when I needed to install IE6 on Vista because the two are not compatible. Being the responsible developer I am; I didn’t want to completely abandon IE6 as there is still a big enough market share using it. Currently W3Schools has them still at 20% and IE7 at 27%.

For this reason, I searched the net for “IE 6 on windows”, “how to get IE6 on windows”, etc.. but never came up with a solution. I finally gave up and figured the only way to test was to physically go to an XP Computer and test it.

Not long after this, I came across a solution that someone had in a screencast. If I am not mistaken it was “Jeffery Way”. He writes articles, and creates screencasts on the ThemeForest.net blog. The program I saw him using was IETester.

IETester is a free web browser that allows you to have the rendering and JavaScript engines of IE8 beta 2, IE7, IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP. I immediately gave it a try and have been quite impressed ever since. It has made my cross-browser compatibility that much easier.

I will also quickly mention another browser tool. The website, browsershots.org allows you to get screenshots in your website on many platforms, browsers, and screen sizes.

Got any cross-browser compatibility tools? Let me know!

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