February 2005
A freak storm last Wednesday saw Melbourne get the most rain on record for a single day. With entire trees floating down the flooded Yarra River the next morning, I made my way to hear the father of... Read More
I popped this idea into the latest Design View, but I figure it’s probably worth mentioning it here too. If you’ve ever fiddled with styling the venerable HR you probably still have the... Read More
PHP developers, have you tried jEdit? As Scott explains, this handy editor offers much downloadable, plugin-based functionality and is easily customizable to make editing and bug-fixing your PHP a... Read More
I am always looking for the simplest route to getting packages of files, custom web applications and other data/software to clients. What I try NOT to do is to send them a compicated set of... Read More
I recently stumbled across a very useful utility that was sorely missing from my system administration toolset. Alien package converter, which I discovered thanks to a Jeremy Garcia article in Linux... Read More
Put this one in the ‘not strictly web design, but cool enough to warrant thinking up some kind of lame link ‘ category. If you’re a little over the clean and clinic look of a lot of... Read More
I’ll be on a Walt Disney Cruise all of next week, without the ability to blog. So let’s make this week about you, instead of about this blog. I’d like you to post your experiences... Read More
Text link ads have been a boon to many ...and a bust to some. Gord takes a closer look at the controversial practice of purchasing text links on sites related to your own, exploring how the industry... Read More
The buzz is at a peak today as news outlets continue to cover yesterday’s oepning of the Software Freedom Law Center. Funded in part by the Open Source Development Labs, home to Linux creator... Read More
I had a wonderful coaching session with a client today who is trying to get his IT consulting work kick-started. We discovered that he is a technology aficionado, like so many of us. This has led to... Read More
It was a long time coming, but the java.util.regex package was a significant, useful addition to Java 1.4. Take Andy's tour of the package and see for yourself why regex is such a boon for developers... Read More
