June 2005
We recently made the jump to MySQL 4.1 at SitePoint and it’s mostly been smooth sailing. Though I have to admit that it hasn’t offered any of the performance increases that I had hoped... Read More
As web professionals, most of you have probably been quite advantaged in terms of your education and ability to earn a living. So how are you giving back with your skills? Please post ways you use... Read More
Microsoft are putting together a toolkit for doing Ajax things, called Atlas. It looks like it’ll be an ASP.NET 2.0 thing, according to Scott Guthrie from Microsoft. Reassuringly, he says... Read More
A fantastic resource was passed along to me called DShield – which bills itself as a distributed intrusion detection system. What it is really is a powerful live reporting resource on the most... Read More
In light of recent news of massive intrusions into enterprise database systems holding sensitive customer information – it is obvious reminders on hardening databases is not old news.... Read More
I’ve spent a bit of time recently talking about some of the newer and groovier features in Creative Suite 2, so it’s great to see Veerle chime in with this easy-to-follow tutorial on... Read More
Last week I was deeply saddened to learn of the tragic and slightly bewildering passing of Nigel McFarlane– a great friend and colleague of all of us at SitePoint. Nigel was a widely-respected... Read More
A previous post discussed consultative selling vs. what I called “the unsell” (e.g. not pushing a solution on customers at all). It’s worth a separate blog thread here to compare... Read More
I must admit I’ve always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with Acrobat. I’ve never been particularly enamoured with the idea of text file format that requires a 25MB reader app. On... Read More
I suspect many of you – like SitePoint – use PHP to process inbound email for various purposes. For example, our warehousing / fulfillment company sends us an email with an XML attachment... Read More
The news broke late last week by way of the Wall Street Journal with rumors of a payments service akin to PayPal forthcoming from Google, seeming new masters of the web world. Some of the speculation... Read More
Christian Heilmann has been busy making lists; six JavaScript features we do not need any longer and DOM scripting health and safety tips. There’s a lot of bad practice out there. Readers of... Read More
One easy way to set yourself apart is by creating a CD disk or audio recording that you give to clients and prospects, and that gives them valuable information about web design and development. It is... Read More
PHP 4 didn’t really catch fire in terms of real-world server support until its first major update, version 4.1. Will the same be true of PHP 5, the first point release of which is now in its... Read More
