June 2004
At the risk of starting a flame war, got to get this off my chest. Joel Spolsky recently posted a his feelings on How Microsoft Lost the API War; an article that’s currently kicking up a storm... Read More
I constantly track and measure results of any marketing tactic, and hope that you do, too. I’ve found that writing articles is one tactic that beats Google AdWords anytime. In fact, this blog... Read More
Keith over at BIT-101 has created a rather nifty SWF panel for Flash MX 2004 for exporting, un-exporting, changing names, linkages names, first frame export status or class names from the Library. A... Read More
Following on the general theme of command line PHP, Jon did a nice talk about PEAR’s console related classes to PHP London – the slides are online here:... Read More
Parsing Options While, at first glance, it may not seem too hard to write a function for parsing options, why would you bother? PEAR::Console_Getopt provides a ready-rolled solution, and solves the... Read More
Multiple Choice You can also use STDIN to handle choices: <?php fwrite(STDOUT, "Pick some colors (enter the letter and press return)\n"); // An array of choice to color $colors = array (... Read More
Different revisions of the .NET framework can lead to incompatibility problems with your application. You might have used a feature of the 1.0 framework which was later changed in the 1.1 release, or... Read More
Routine administration of your PHP Website is easily achieved via PHP's CLI, or command line interface. In the first instalment of his two-part series, Harry looks at the fundamentals of working with... Read More
The LogValidator from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a great tool for webmasters and administrators for checking the validity of the documents on web sites, large or small, on a regular... Read More
Just in case you hadn’t noticed (come on – it’s been 2 days already! ;) – head to http://www.mozilla.org/ – this time they’ve got mirrors. More details on the... Read More
Recently a reader expressed his frustration about prospects who won’t agree to move forward. They delay, make excuses, say they are still thinking about it, etc. What can he do to make progress... Read More
Continue to be blown away by just how good Simple Test is. For reasons explained by Jeff here, we’ve been looking for ways to run WACT’s test suite in a way that won’t run into... Read More
Need a secret weapon to boost your promotion? Robert's two-pronged approach to testing and using Google and Overture's pay-per-click tools will cost you just $200, and can boost your visits and... Read More
When I receive more than 1 request for a post, I like to fulfill the request ;) Hashes are a cryptographic method of providing a one-way encoding of information which yields a hash value of the... Read More
