April 2004
Via Markus, a new PHP group has just formed in London, UK – http://www.phplondon.org/ and are meeting up every Thursday at the Cambridge pub in Cambridge Circus, on the Charing Cross road... Read More
Dori Smith has a great entry on her Javascript Weblog about using Javascript to secure pages of her site. She argues that Javascript really isn’t the right tool for the job, and I completely... Read More
…posted by davidjmedlock: Ben has a list of his upcoming appearances for this summer’s CFUG tour. He’ll be quite a busy guy over the next few months. You can catch this list at... Read More
In the intangible online environment, physical evidence of the quality of your business and products can make or break a sale. Heather explains how to present your products to their best advantage... Read More
On the off chance you happen to be in Zurich, Switzerland, next Sunday (25th April) and want to meet up, will be at the station21 gallery for brunch. It’s for the final day of Natalie’s... Read More
XUL Planet got some major updates last week, including a new Scriptable Object Reference (the APIs Mozilla exposes to unpriveliged JavaScript), friendlier navigation, PHP manual-like comments... Read More
The HTML document title should be at the core of your Webmastering arsenal. As Fernando explains, your document's title appears in everything from users' bookmarks lists to their task bars, so it... Read More
The Register is reporting today that the Consortium for Open Source in Public Administration (Cospa) has received 2.6 million in funds toward its total cost of 4 million to disseminate, promote and... Read More
Reading on the forums, this question often arises. How and why should we use parameters in our SQL queries? First things first. Here’s a parameterised query: sqlConnection1.Open(); SqlCommand... Read More
Couple of recent articles looking at how to build content for wireless devices (with examples using PHP): Developing Wireless Content using XHTML Mobile and Introduction to WAP using WML, ASP and... Read More
Often the premium database providers used by web developers (among many others) are called “big iron” for their sheer capacity and scale. These would be IBM DB2, Oracle and Microsoft SQL... Read More
Oracle (yes Oracle) have an interesting article up titled PHP Comes of Age which reflects on PHP’s past and makes some insightful observations on “Culture Clash”, PHP being, in many... Read More
As an addition to my latest article, this entry will show you how to harness the power of XPath by example. XPath is a query language for XML, akin to SQL for relational databases (ok, loosely akin!)... Read More
…posted by davidjmedlock: This originated out of some project I was thinking about doing and I though it’d be useful for others. These functions check to see if a character is upper case... Read More
