After speaking on a panel at last week’s National Society of Collegiate Scholars Convention about entrepreneurship, graduate degrees, and internships, two students...

Lately, I’ve been working on rewriting the API for Wufoo, a task which requires emitting deeply nested XML and JSON strings from PHP. I’ve found writing...

Introduction It’s a fickle world out here on the Internet and I’ve gotten used to bloggers coming and going, but my heart (and feedreader) still feels a deep...

If your web application accepts content or input from your users, it’s nice to be able to display it in a useful format back to them. For example, some web sites...

While there are a lot of sites dedicated to aiding designers in finding the right color palette— kuler is my favorite —most seem rooted around arbitrary...

Like Alex, I’ve recently embraced Textmate after joining the Wufoo crew. And while I’ve been happy with my new-found text editor, I sorely miss my debugger....

Introduction Hi everyone, my name is Alex Vazquez and I’m one of the new additions to the Wufoo Team. Because Chris, Kevin and Ryan prefer OSX and work primarily...

Combining foreign characters, JavaScript and calls to the server in a JSON format sounds like trouble — and it is. But this time Safari is causing the problems...

Because we’re always on the look out for ways to speed up our web application, one of my favorite tools for optimization is the YSlow Firefox extension. Based on...

Going into our 3rd year, I am amazed at the number of interface challenges Wufoo’s created for me. So far I’ve created over 50 interfaces and designs for our...

We’ve been neglecting you for awhile now and it’s not that we don’t love you and haven’t been dreaming up excellent and useful things. Quite the...

A post on the lessrain blog, Nasty XML Load Bug in IE6, just prevented my day from being ruined. Apparently, there are issues with a Flash object loading XML in a secure...

Creating some sort of search functionality is something we all have to do at one point or another. For the good cases, we have fulltext search or an external program...

Just a reminder that today is the due date for your applications to Y Combinator’s Winter 2008 program. You know where we stand on the situation. Best thing to ever...

Having a user download a file through a web page is a fairly common task, which begins with the painful task of finding out the appropriate headers. As if figuring out...

Introduction In preparation for the redesigns and overhauls we implemented in Wufoo, I took some time to revisit a few HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) fundamentals with...

Have you ever noticed how often you seem to finish a project, no matter how big or small, almost exactly when it’s due? Sometimes you’ll work harder than ever to get...

We talked about duplicating with MySQL earlier, and another MySQL tip worth pointing out is on inserting or updating in one query. The idea is that there will be times...