August 2004
Selling is about influence. Significant research has been done on effective and ineffective influence strategies. Here are five common mistakes that people make when attempting to influence others:... Read More
The Max Design web standards checklist offers a nice, concise way of checking the overall quality of a website, at least from an architectural point of view. The key concepts embodied in the list are... Read More
Couple of reads; Via Paul Scrivens: Cal Henderson on Searching with PHP and MySQL – nicely explained with an elegant coding style. See also Search Term Highlighting. Via Keith: Dirify in PHP... Read More
If you think Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand are all about creating boring geometric shapes, think again. Corrie explains, step by step, how easy it is to create vector graphics using... Read More
Technically, this isn’t .NET. But, unless you’re using Mono, Service Pack 2 is going to be a must-have for most .NET coders. Have you installed it? Found any incompatibilities? Drop a... Read More
i18n in PHP is largely a mess today, to the point where Joel Spolsky singled it out last year with; When I discovered that the popular web development tool PHP has almost complete ignorance of... Read More
I recently had the chance to speak with Andrew Kennard of Thawte (www.thawte.com), who answered some questions regarding ssl and browser encryption as a follow up to my recent column Securing Apache... Read More
For those interested Macromedia has the official sign-up for blackstone beta testing on it’s site. While there you can also sign-up for Dreamweaver & Fireworks beta testing but I’ve... Read More
For all you Flash MX 2004 Professional users out there, Macromedia has added a new weapon in the arsenal for web video integration. Via a Dreamweaver MX 2004 extension, the Flash Video Kit allows the... Read More
Cute and funny story of the week: My sister home-schools her kids, and her daughter is having a bit of trouble with math. Because her daughter has a hard time thinking abstractly, my sister often has... Read More
Updated PEAR::Calendar today with v0.52, mainly containing Lorenzo’s hard work (many thanks!). Reminded again how important it is to have a decent PHP unit test framework (plus writing tests in... Read More
BBC: “Microsoft’s plan to impress new users with a cut-down version of Windows has come in for strong criticism. The software giant has created Windows XP Starter Edition for countries... Read More
Wget is a tasty utility on Linux and Mac OS X systems that can come in handy for web system administrators. Wget — found on the GNU.org site — is a command line application for file... Read More
Please see my article this month, which came out today. It is about crafting a strategic business plan to guide your business. http://www.sitepoint.com/article/business-plan-wont-sit-shelf The... Read More
