michaelawill

Lifehacker and Ars Technica are my current favorites. Always looking for a few more good information sources to add to my chrome bookmark bar :)

I'm sure there are a ton of great news sites out there that I've never seen, I really can't stand major news sites that use a huge amount of their screen real estate for advertisements and navigation bars.

What are your favorites?

Happy 4th of July everyone. Hopefully you're all enjoying the long weekend or maybe even taking a vacation this week.

I'm looking to create my first website and I wanted to get opinions from the much more experienced people here. Which website is the best and why? Price isn't too much of an issue because it seems fairly reasonable no matter who you go through but I don't want to register through a shady or bad website as I've heard stories of people having trouble transferring their domains to a decent website after realizing the picked a bad one.

Both the language and platform should fit these criteria:

* Developing under windows. Where I work developing on Linux isn't really an option. * Web Development preferred. Most of the applications I make are web applications. * I like to create very clean interfaces but a platform that can make a good looking interface wouldn't hurt. * Pulling data from SQL and updating SQL is going to be the core of every app. I'd rather not go with a language that makes this painful. * I'm looking for something more than my current Visual Studios (VB.net) while at the same time I admit I'm no genius and there are probably some languages/platforms I won't be able to teach myself.