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September 2nd, 2008

Web Development

Yahoo!’s Nate Koechley recently posted slides and audio from a presentation he gave on Professional Frontend Engineering.

Yahoo! is a big site, and it works really well. As an example of cutting edge excellence in modern browser technologies, you’d be hard pressed to find many better examples today. Their mail application alone is an exceptional example of modern browser-based Web applications in action. Additionally, their YUI libraries are exceptional. (more…)

Rob Cherny

September 1st, 2008

Insight Article

According to a 2007 Nielsen study, intranets are no longer the “impoverished cousins of Web sites,” but rather have success rates that average 33% higher than the Web ¹. A Web search for intranet best practices unofficially corroborates that data—many results address how to incorporate information architecture rather than whether it’s necessary. That’s good news and represents a more mature view of intranets that companies have long lacked.

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Justin Borntraeger