Google Chrome has just overtaken Safari as the 3rd most-popular browser in the US. This finding comes from StatCounter, an analytics company which aggregates stats from over 3 million websites.

Many web developers like to dive head-first into code. Others prefer careful planning first, creating a road map, and then coding it piece-by-piece. No matter what your methodology is, there are several best-practices you can adopt to build a successful web application. Here are some general tips to keep in mind:

Internet Explorer 9 is the latest version of Microsoft's web browser. Although it's not expected to be released to the public until 2011, developers may download a preview version for beta testing. They are looking to make a huge number of improvements to the browser (compared to previous versions), which we're really excited about.

The arrival of "Web 2.0" has forever changed the way we use the internet.  We have transitioned from the web being pages of static content to something far more useful and dynamic.  In addition to the social aspect of the web, this paradigm shift has enabled the development of some truly amazing (and entertaining) web apps.  Here are seven such tools/sites I use often:

The folks over at Web Directions are at it again.  They have just opened their State of the Web 2010 survey of professional web designers and developers.  The idea is to see what technologies and practices are being employed by web firms.  Although many "best practice" articles do exist around the net, they want to find out what developers actually use/do when creating new online presences.

In case you haven't heard, Google (and at least 30 other companies) were attacked by hackers in late December (codenamed Operation Aurora).  Although it cannot be publicly verified as 100% accurate, Google announced in a blog post that the "highly sophisticated and targeted attack on [their] corporate infrastructure [had orginiated] from China".  Their primary goal was "accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activi

Exactly one year ago, John Resig and the jQuery team released version 1.3. This release came packed with feature upgrades, such as the new ultra-fast Sizzle selector engine, live event bindings, and more. Development has been rather quiet since then, leading many to speculate that nothing major was going on - boy were they wrong!

I've been working on a project last week that involves creating a custom plugin for FCKEditor. I needed a way to inject custom code into the HTML output (custom Magento templating stuff, actually). I wanted the code to be hidden from the user but easily managed by the user through a dialog box. This way, the user can easily change this without worrying about the underlying code (or FCKEditor corrupting it).

Method chaining is a fluent interface design pattern used to simplyify your code. If you've used frameworks like Zend or jQuery, you probably have some experience with chaining. Essentially your objects return themselves, allowing you to "chain" multiple actions together.

Google Chrome was officially revealed at a news conference on November 19, 2009. Unlike Windows and other modern operating systems, Chrome OS has only one application - the web browser. There is no word processor or email programs - all applications are web-based, running and saving your data in the "cloud".