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Your readers want to have their say! In this article Kai shows you how to add a rating widget to your ColdFusion 9 app using a custom tag and some Ajax magic courtesy of the Adobe Spry JavaScript library.

Git represents the current state of the art in version control tools, but it’s surprisingly easy to use. In this article Alec Clews introduces Git and demonstrates why it’s your new best friend.

We recently decided to develop some personas to represent the core readership of sitepoint.com, and this is what we came up with. How well do you think we've captured the SitePoint readership?

When Matt created the SitePoint Personas, he combined two different methodologies, and it worked surprisingly well. Here, he describes the process he followed, and explains how you might do the same when designing your own web sites.

In this first part of a three-part series, Andrew shows us how we can write a Twitter app in Flex and PHP.

Unless you limit yourself to one-page web sites, you’ll need to design navigation. In fact, navigation is among the most important parts of any web design. In this collection of ready-made solutions Rachel steps us through styling horizontal and vertical menus, tabs, buttons, lists, and links with CSS -- and making sure they're as accessible as possible!

Tired of the same old URL shorteners like TinyURL, tr.im or bit.ly? Ever wished you could run your very own URL shortener? In ColdFusion, it’s probably easier than you think.

In the first part of this series, Andrew showed us how easy it is to mock up an application interface in Adobe Illustrator and Flash Catalyst. In part II, we'll add the rest of the code.

Flash Catalyst is an amazing new tool from Adobe that reinvents the process of building Rich Internet Applications. In this tutorial, the first of two parts, Andrew demonstrates building a nifty music library app using Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder, and, well, very little code at all.

When Google Wave was announced in May, it showed the potential to reinvent the way we communicate online. SitePoint caught up with Cameron Adams, who designed the user interface for Wave, to talk about the process he followed and the challenges he faced.