http://www.a1articles.com en-us editorial@a1articles.com Web developers are normal people. Do you agree? Most probably if you are reading this article I am talking about you. So look in the mirror…are you normal? If you are a developer you would know about, or at least have heard about PHP. PHP is now being... http://www.a1articles.com/article_572547_4.html 09th July 2008 You are a web-developing super-programmer who’s going to change the world. You know all about Perl, I mean it’s the most general purpose programming language around, and probably the most widely used for small ‘glue’ applications between other a... http://www.a1articles.com/article_572546_4.html 09th July 2008 Do you know what a Paamayim Nekudotayim is? Are you a web developer or software engineer? Well come on, spit it out then (saying these words caused me to accidentally spit on my girlfriend’s arm, she wasn’t very impressed). If you’ve used PHP (Hyper... http://www.a1articles.com/article_572544_4.html 09th July 2008 When it comes to computer technology it is often the case that it takes a large number of people working together to create something new and ingenious. However, we do know from experience that sometimes it is an individual human being who ‘cracks the c... http://www.a1articles.com/article_572540_4.html 09th July 2008 It’s been a long cold winter and it’s the first day of spring. The air is crisp, the sky a crystal blue. You’re feeling your spirit rise and the breath of air fills your lungs with the joy and feeling of fresh new beginnings. You look around you... http://www.a1articles.com/article_553046_81.html 09th June 2008 Web designers and developers are the heart and soul of the Internet. If you have skills in web design or web development you can make a growing income on the Internet. The secret to making money with your web design and development skills is to include we... http://www.a1articles.com/article_549006_4.html 29th May 2008 Web design and development has come a long way since the days of static webpages. The new world of Web 2.0 and advanced search engine algorythmns require webmasters to provide striking content that will generate hundreds of in-bound links but also make v... http://www.a1articles.com/article_134550_16.html 05th March 2007 When it comes to computer technology it is often the case that it takes a large number of people working together to create something new and ingenious. However, we do know from experience that sometimes it is an individual human being who 'cracks the cod... http://www.a1articles.com/article_78086_45.html 31st July 2006 You are a web-developing super-programmer who's going to change the world. You know all about Perl, I mean it's the most general purpose programming language around, and probably the most widely used for small 'glue' applications between other application... http://www.a1articles.com/article_73150_11.html 17th July 2006 I had long dreamed about becoming a professional artist, but until last year, I did not feel like I was ready to advertise my work outside of friends and family. After five years of art education and with enough good paintings to offer, I decided to take ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_56186_81.html 22nd May 2006 Star Trek has a wonderful device called the universal translator. It translates spoken and written alien languages into English, and would probably translate different human languages, if there were more than one in that specifically created future. Thoug... http://www.a1articles.com/article_39053_45.html 28th March 2006 On her twenty-third birthday Angela dragged herself out of bed at 5am to get ready for another ten-hour workday. Monday to Friday she did a two hour round trip to various boutique cheese makers before nine am then ran her store until five in the afternoon... http://www.a1articles.com/article_39052_15.html 28th March 2006 Many contemporary students and researchers using the Internet would know about Wikipedia and the user friendly search engine that this web encyclopedia provides to its users. However, few are yet to be acquainted with the new Internet encyclopedia called ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_39051_2.html 28th March 2006 The word 'technology' is often associated with ideologies about the future and the advancement of society. Although this statement may be true to a limited extent in that technology is about foreseeing the future, technology and advancements in technology... http://www.a1articles.com/article_33895_45.html 07th March 2006 Colonel James Black sat down across from the ship's physician, hands folded in his lap. "Captain asked me to chat with you." It was a bland statement, delivered in a monotone voice. Major Jessica Stone sighed, "Let's be honest. She asked you three days a... http://www.a1articles.com/article_33882_45.html 07th March 2006 Rapid technological advancements in the 21st Century have ensured that society is now more connected, and there are an increased number of media channels available. Unfortunately, due to dominant media ownerships some would argue that though we have a cho... http://www.a1articles.com/article_30792_11.html 20th February 2006 This morning, the Internet connected me to my friends, although today the News was mostly bad. Firstly, some friends of mine and I are planning to get together tomorrow and I was figuring out what time to meet. I emailed my friends at ten twenty two am, t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_29729_11.html 16th February 2006 When I was a kid we replaced one set of encyclopedias with a newer set of the same type and brand. When the new ones arrived the whole family unpacked them and sat around comparing the two editions. The new ones were crisp and clean, without finger smudge... http://www.a1articles.com/article_29132_11.html 14th February 2006 Pew Internet & American Life Project (http://www.pewInternet.org/reports.asp) has studied the 'dreadful' way the Internet isolates people from their friends and family. They've found not only does it not cut us off from our friends, it actually increases ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_29120_11.html 14th February 2006 Although the field of public relations is quite new, it is seen to be pivotal to many companies when coordinating advertising and marketing campaigns. Public relations, which is often defined as "The art or science of establishing and promoting a favorabl... http://www.a1articles.com/article_29111_15.html 14th February 2006 Work for many people is changing, and you have to admit that it's like a silent revolution occurring for many of us who do our job on computers and the Internet. It's not just a trend; more and more people are working freelance or simply getting things do... http://www.a1articles.com/article_29075_24.html 14th February 2006 I was tempted to start out by saying something like, 'Gee Mozart was great, but think what he would have done with the help of the Internet to link him with all of the other composers, musicians, and instrument makers in the world?' However, I'm not sure ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_28426_11.html 09th February 2006 I don't have a blog other than these articles on www.blog.m6.net which is the blog site of the company that I work for. I've started a few, same as I've started to keep a diary a few times, but I just don't stick with them. Perhaps deep down I doubt anyon... http://www.a1articles.com/article_28413_11.html 09th February 2006 Why do women sometimes pretend to be men when talking in chat rooms or using chat programs? Is it because some immature males treat all women like second-class citizens or brainless bimbos so that you have to pretend to be male to get listened to? Or is i... http://www.a1articles.com/article_28405_28.html 09th February 2006 I have two Dads. That sounds strange doesn't it? One is my genetic father, and the other is my geneticist father. The genetic Dad I've only ever lived with for one year when I was an infant, while the geneticist Dad is what you would call a step-father, b... http://www.a1articles.com/article_28293_45.html 09th February 2006 Over the weekend my clock-radio lost power so I had to reset it. I found the correct time on the Internet and decided to reset everything in my room to the correct time. In addition to my clock, I reset the time on my video recorder, television, computer ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_27192_45.html 02nd February 2006 The Internet and Information Technology in contemporary Western society have played a pivotal role in advancing the pace of humanity, and assisting with lifestyle needs. However, it is clearly demonstrated with business investments such as the share marke... http://www.a1articles.com/article_27176_19.html 02nd February 2006 What does it mean to be perfect? Many people strive for 'perfection' in their life, through their work, their family, and their love lives. All the time we hear about, or are even called 'perfectionists', and usually in a negative context. There have been... http://www.a1articles.com/article_27168_24.html 02nd February 2006 Recently I read an article that talked about the new craze of having your own avatar on the Internet. An avatar is a virtual representation of yourself, it is a character that you can design, sometimes even with a specific tone of voice. The idea (if... http://www.a1articles.com/article_27158_11.html 02nd February 2006 I've been writing about the Internet for a couple of years now so you'd probably assume that I am proficient with all aspects of the Web, from using search engines to building a website. Well, you're wrong. Sadly, I fall into the category of those human b... http://www.a1articles.com/article_26794_4.html 02nd February 2006 Do you think anyone has declared moving type to be the end of civilization in the same way people said typewriters were killing letter writing, telephones were isolating people, and television and the Internet were isolating young folk from other people? ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_26776_15.html 02nd February 2006 I've been having a bit of a problem lately. As I've been working for an Internet company for a couple of years you might expect that I'd have my own website by now. I really wouldn't mind having one. As a creative writer it would be great to put up my boo... http://www.a1articles.com/article_26284_4.html 01st February 2006 I asked a colleague from work today if he had any news about new Internet phenomena that would be cool to check out. He told me about the concept of social software. Social software is where someone takes an existing computer program and combines it with ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_26267_11.html 01st February 2006 If you're anything like me, you've spent many, many hours of your life watching television. From sit-coms and game shows to cartoons and reality TV, we've sat in front of the box for a large part of our life watching stories of one sort or another. What w... http://www.a1articles.com/article_26091_11.html 31st January 2006 Last week I wrote an article about all the new and cool uses of Google Maps when they're mixed with other software technologies, (See 'Social software? Check out Google Map mash-ups.' by Jesse S. Somer). In that same vein of 'map usage being taken to the ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_26083_11.html 31st January 2006 I'm amused how little geographic location matters on the Internet. I often smile when I wonder if the person I'm chatting with is even on the same continent. Everyone in the world might as well be just across the street, if they are using the same messeng... http://www.a1articles.com/article_26051_24.html 31st January 2006 I think that people can solve all of our problems, if we could just work together. In fact, I think that solutions of many of our problems already exist in pieces scattered here and there all over the world. For example, all over the planet the Sun is shi... http://www.a1articles.com/article_25223_11.html 25th January 2006 The Internet is like New York, a city that never sleeps, except for the fact that it is not actually a city. The Web's 'anytime' nature is a boon for people who want to talk to someone at 4 am such as anyone who is doing shift work. Before the Internet, i... http://www.a1articles.com/article_25188_45.html 25th January 2006 When you talk to people online there is a wonderful lack of background information. Generally, I'm in favour of the 'all-the-information-you-can-get-your hands-on' theory, but in this case less is better. Talk to someone face-to-face and you can't help ma... http://www.a1articles.com/article_24745_15.html 19th January 2006 You might think I am some sort of idealist or believer in a utopian society, but there are some questions that I like to ask and wonder about in relation to the future of our species. One such question that often comes to mind is, 'Can individual people... http://www.a1articles.com/article_24267_24.html 16th January 2006 A few weeks ago, I went to collect some friends from the airport. They were arriving just after 11 PM on a Wednesday night. I arrived fifteen minutes early, in case their flight was early, and settled down in the arrivals area with all the other peopl... http://www.a1articles.com/article_24255_50.html 16th January 2006 It is 11:15 am on December 23rd and I've just finished my Christmas shopping, which is about normal for me. I usually think about gifts, both what I'll buy and what I'd like, from around the 14th of December until about the 20th December. Then I do the... http://www.a1articles.com/article_23105_11.html 09th January 2006 Every kid who has ever lived has wondered what it would be like if they could travel to the Moon. Originally I assume they would have imagined it as a giant white disc that one could fall off of if you got too close to the precarious edge. Now we know tha... http://www.a1articles.com/article_22509_45.html 05th January 2006 Journalists in most contemporary societies have the freedom to express their opinions and thoughts through the use of the media. The Internet is frequently the chosen media for journalists to express their ideas due to its speed and also its popularity. H... http://www.a1articles.com/article_22508_18.html 05th January 2006 http://www.m6.net/articles/images/neopet.swf <embed src="http://www.m6.net/articles/images/neopet.swf" quality=... http://www.a1articles.com/article_22331_11.html 05th January 2006 I'm part of a group of five or six friends, who "physically" get together most weekends (as opposed to virtually). We also email each other, usually every few days, to generally trade jokes, share news, and discuss scheduling problems to do with when we a... http://www.a1articles.com/article_20897_45.html 24th December 2005 The term computer game might have one more meaning than you realize. You are familiar with one kind, games that run on computers? They are set in eras from prehistoric and Roman times up to the present, and into various wonderful and depressing future wo... http://www.a1articles.com/article_20896_45.html 24th December 2005 Many people these days believe that technology, and in particular Information Technology, is the key to attaining a future world that is both ecologically and environmentally sustainable, as well as being socially stable. Are they right? Others believe th... http://www.a1articles.com/article_20895_45.html 24th December 2005 There are many benefits that can be gained by researching on the Internet. Not only is the level of research that can be achieved on the Internet relevant to today's university students, but these benefits are also available to high school and adolescents... http://www.a1articles.com/article_19863_45.html 16th December 2005 In contemporary western society, due to its inherent capitalistic system, there are many suppliers of website building packages that enable consumers to develop their own websites. Although there are different functions embedded into each software package... http://www.a1articles.com/article_19862_45.html 16th December 2005