March 2005
Via TheServerSide.com, an article on java.sun.com discusses Project Barcelona, Sun’s research effort to implement a Multi-Tasking Virtual Machine (MVM). If successful, Barcelona will enable... Read More
In Part 2 of his hands-on tute, John explains numerous ways in which Ant helps simplify development. He shows how to leverage target dependencies, properties, hidden targets and aliasing to create... Read More
I’m not sure where this fits in terms of pure web design. Probably doesn’t,.. but it uses Flash and it’s on the web. Whatever the case, it certainly fits nicely in ‘whoAA!!... Read More
I’ll be departing Sitepoint as a blogger at the end of this month. So in the week we have left together, let’s focus on the big picture and get back to basics. The past blogs about mock... Read More
The PayPal Developers Network is extending an offer to developers to submit wish lists for scripts not already included in the Perl/PHP Toolkits. Apparently they are currently limiting this to Perl... Read More
Came across a review at Slashdot that may ease the woes of some developers needing to leverage regular expressions. Regex is used frequently in url rewriting (among the many ways to use them) and the... Read More
Came across this excellent article by Mark Frauenfelder on The Feature last night, talking about experimental techniques in small-screen usability design. At it’s most basic, many sites try to... Read More
The latest news from Microsoft is the delay of Visual Studio 2005 until late 2005 (September is the estimate) and the release the .NET Framework 2.0 beta 2. As I received this news, I contemplated... Read More
Embedded systems have been around for quite a while. More recently, Linux has found to be friendly to the construction and deployment of embedded systems due to flexible licensing, low cost of entry... Read More
The mock-ups discussion in last two blog entries still leaves me dis-satisfied. I have 1 non-profit and 9 ecommerce web sites going, and after looking at portfolios of hundreds of designers, still... Read More
PHP’s configuration directive arg_separator.output allows you to tell PHP how it should separate arguments in a URL and has a default value of ‘&’. The directive affects all... Read More
It is probably safer to assume close to everyone reading this has received phishing email at some point, as have the great majority of your customers. The Mozilla Foundation’s Thunderbird email... Read More
The rumours are starting to fly thick and fast about the upcoming IE7.0. Although Microsoft have only said that the new version of the browser will focus on security issues, the web development... Read More
Are you sick of the straight and narrow? Turn the corner - gently - with CSS! Trenton explains a neat, compact way to integrate curves into your next design, with the help of some tricky CSS.Read More
