Odds are, if term coding standards is new to you, you are wasting time on a daily basis arguing over the syntax semantics of your programming language. (e.g. tabs or spaces? 4 spaces or 2? print or echo? etc.)

Programmers are required to make hundreds to thousands of micro-decisions like this every day, and especially when there is no standard, this costs time and time is money. If you were to benchmark the programmer's brain, you could begin to see exactly just how much time is wasted asking, answering, remembering, and changing each answer.

This form of unorganization has many more side effects than one, however.

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If you are interested in learning Ruby on a Windows machine I recommend spending a weekend to read the free online book Programming Ruby and downloading InstantRails and RadRails to begin testing the Ruby code snippets it will show you.

This is something I've been trying to say for a long time now.

From Aaron Wall's SEO Book:

Banners vs Contextual Ads:

Many web surfers have become banner blind and ignore the top part of a page. Banners have horrible conversion rates.

I do not usually use the default banner size unless I feel it fits well with the site design. The best revenue options are usually link rentals or context-based text ads.

Good advertising does not look like advertising.

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In case you haven't heard, "Web 2.0" is a concept primarily advocated by O'Reilly Media during their periodic Web 2.0 Conference in downtown San Francisco.

It has been a year since Jesse James Garret first coined the term AJAX and based on his observations of Google's Gmail, Maps, Suggest, etc. read more

In light of ongoing discussion regarding a new professionalism for Web designers and developers, it’s clear that some people still don't get it: XML, XHTML, CSS, read more