I work for a small web shop and enjoy a very casual atmosphere. This is great most of the time, but recently it caught up with me. We were all sitting around the conference table eating pizza on the company’s dime and watching the classic Batman film over lunch. I was sitting there scarfing down pizza next to my coworkers and my boss when our sales guy poked his head in and asked me how much we’d charge for hosting a simple e-commerce site. We’re not exactly what I’d call a premium services sort of company, so I quoted him a price of $25/month. But I quickly added that at that...

Whenever you’re building a site that has a directory of businesses or people or anything with a physical location, it commonly lends itself to offering a search form which allows the user to search by distance from a given location. For example, a national or state-wide company with many branches may want to allow their website visitors to find a location near them. Or perhaps you may be building a directory of specialist doctors, or a site with real estate listings, and want to offer users the ability to search within X miles from a given location. It sounds like a difficult feature to implement...

H1N1 What a fantastic read on H1N1 and the basics of DNA And RNA as they function in the body using the analogy of a computer program. The author then goes on to suggest ways in which the virus could be improved, from a reverse engineering standpoint. Read the original article...

Quick Wordpress tip for you, especially useful when you’re initially setting up your blog. If you’re switching from theme to theme and then find yourself unable to add certain widgets, it’s probably because they were left enabled on a different theme. Try switching back to the theme you were previously using, remove all of the widgets and then try adding them again after switching to the new...