March 2005
Eclipse, the emerging de facto standard in Java IDEs, is everywhere at the moment, with EclipseCon 2005 having recently wrapped in Burlingame, California. JavaLobby just sent out its report on the... Read More
Chris Wilson, lead program manager for the web platform in Internet Explorer, has posted to the IE development weblog asking for people’s opinions on which standards IE7 should best attempt to... Read More
The Ajax express train rumbles on, threatening to crush anything in its path. Recent discussion has turned to those critical elements of good web development, usability and accessibility.... Read More
Hi, my name is Lucas Chan. I’m also a resident coder at SitePoint HQ and I’ll be popping my head in here from time to time to help out with the PHP blog. Over the past week or so... Read More
I’ve always found that when looking for new web design inspiration it’s always best for me to look outside the web design field. For instance, in the last week I’ve taken little... Read More
I had the pleasure of connecting with Eric Raymond while putting together my new column on navigating the open source licensing world. Much like the initiatives to standardize the Linux desktop and... Read More
The decision to use an open source license can plunge Web professionals into a mire of patent, trademark and copyright law. In this expose, Blane speaks with Eric Raymond, cofounder of the Open... Read More
Nathan Wong claims that single quotes are faster than double quotes in PHP. In the recent blog post, he attempts to prove that PHP is able to parse and execute string constants faster if they use... Read More
Ivan made such a terrific reply on the last blog entry that it’s worth a separate post. He expressed disappointment in my lack of a scientific methodology about sales and marketing.... Read More
Have you noticed? Lots of professionals have personality issues: arrogance, rambling, not following through, passive aggressive, lack of eye contact, sarcasm, inability to listen, lack of compassion,... Read More
Steven Wittens from Acko.net describes a way of implementing a clone function in PHP4 to emulate PHP5′s clone behaviour. The idea is to write object-oriented programs that will behave the same... Read More
Running a little further with the Eyetools theme from my last post, Greg Edwards has put you in the drivers seat. If you’ve ever wondered whether: light text on dark background gets more... Read More
I spent the past week in New York City for Jupiter Media’s “Search Engine Strategies” conference. The event was extremely well attended (okay, packed) in spite of snowy weather. It... Read More
Writing great code that is not only functional and bug-free but also leverages all aspects of its environment to run efficiently is something all of us would aspire to. Randall Hyde is hoping to make... Read More
