It appears that Devlounge suffered for some downtime earlier today. The culprit has been zapped by the server people. Hopefully, it won’t happen again. Nonetheless, we apologize for the inconvenience.

It is with great pleasure that I start the second year of Friday Focus, the weekly run down of cool things worth checking out before you kick back and relax for the weekend. There is no better way to start your weekend then to be reading the focus every Friday. Enjoy the weekend everyone. Sites [...]

Prash asked me to drop a quick note about the sale of Mintpages. Most of you long time readers have all but certainly heard me mention Mintpages before as a private forum community for designers and developers. Well, much like myself, Prash is very busy with other things and no longer has the time to [...]

Just thought I’d brighten up everyone’s Sunday night with a little bit of news on my newest project. For my senior project in school, I had to do something related to a small business (because it is what I am doing mine on). I figured creating some kind of paid web service would be my [...]

Devlounge have been acquired by Splashpress Media – here’s the official announcement about the deal. As you might now, AJ’s been wanting to sell Devlounge for some time, and hopefully this will be a match made in heaven. Details and more in the announcement post!

52 Weeks ago, the first edition of Friday Focus was born. On October 6th, 2006, the first ever edition of Friday focus was born. The very first edition featured three sites: brdcast, hydrastudio, and authenticjobs. Since then, Friday Focus has come along way. Featuring just about 156 “Sites of the Week”, 100 featured Digg posts, [...]

Just a quick side note for everyone on this wonderful weekend. You may remember Iconsushi, a site I briefly talked about in Friday Focus two weeks ago. It’s my friend Prash’s (who helped create Devlounge with me) newest creation. It is now officially open for business, with two icon sets available for purchase. He’s hooking [...]

We are now just one week out from the first anniversary of Friday Focus. It’s kind of weird to be sitting here thinking how quickly a year has really gone by…but I’ll get into all this reflection stuff next week. Enjoy the upcoming weekend everyone. Next weekend is November. Sites of the Week DreamsDrive is [...]

Design comes in many forms. Take album artwork, for example. Not only is it the packaging trying to sell the product, but many times, it is also being used to represent the style of the artist’s music on that album. Sometimes, album art can be so bad that people won’t purchase an actual physical copy of the album just because the packaging is horrible. Here is a list of 21 really great ones that would catch your eye for sure.

Time to celebrate the big 5-0! I guess that’s why today’s focus is rather late compared to the last few weeks (we were out celebrating all night). But anyways, here we go with edition fifty. Sites of the Week Kicking things off this wonderful 50th edition of the focus is Sikker, the Portfolio of Nicolás [...]

I was recently asked to review a new text link marketplace, called TNX (“Thanks”). They use a point system to allow advertisers to buy link space on sites. Take a look and see what I thought during my quick run through.

Happy Friday everyone. Edition 49, just three weeks away from a year. Wow, are you as surprised as I am? Sites of the Week Week 49, and the first site this week is BillQ. BillQ is another billing / money management web application. Both the site and the application are very clean, but there are [...]