Web Design Piracy: How serious is it?
By Abygail Dela Cruz

It's a very, very serious thing—even though it's unfortunate that some designers and programmers don't think the same. Come on now, guys. Stop making excuses. Design piracy is stealing. And no matter how you look at it, stealing is wrong. read more

Fireworks: Image Editing Tricks
By Jose Olarte III

This article demonstrates some basic image compositing techniques in Adobe Fireworks. The first part shows you how to create and match perspectives using the Distort Tool, while the second part reveals a technique that allows you to superimpose images using vector shapes and the Multiply blend mode. read more

PhilWeavers.Net Website Enhancements / Harvesting of Inactive Accounts Complete
By Jose Illenberger

As already detailed in the previous article, this means that our system would now have to support 3 password encryption methods. In order to maintain a clean code base for the back-end, we have standardized on SHA256 as our default password encryption method. We saw this as an opportunity to begin reaping inactive accounts. read more

Password Encryption and Security Update / Harvesting of inactive PW accounts scheduled
By Jose Illenberger

It is imperative for all active members (including employers) to login between today june 25,2006 and July 15,2006. After 15 July 2006, update will be complete. If you fail to update your account within this period, your account will be marked as inactive and will be considered for deletion. read more

Why you should start learning Ruby on Rails
By Greg Moreno

Ruby on Rails (or RoR) is a web-application framework that is rapidly gaining acceptance among web application developers. Even Java and PHP experts are recommending Ruby on Rails because of its capability to build applications with less time and effort compared to Java and PHP. read more