August 2005
Last blog, a reader asked how to fire a client. First off, firing clients is a good and natural thing. You should periodically review your list of clients and figure out which ones to de-emphasize.... Read More
In a previous blog, Nerveman asks about the best way to find strong developers and designers, presumably as part of your firm or as contract talent. There are three ways I’ve tried, and the... Read More
In other news over the weekend, Rasmus posted his personal wish list of features for PHP 6.0. Comments in the SitePoint Forums about the proposals have largely been positive, with some caveats. Web... Read More
Just a quick one via Matt from the airport on my way back to Melbourne… Matt Cutt’s, one of Google’s famous Webmaster-liasons now has his own blog which gives lots of insights into... Read More
In news over the weekend, Stefan Esser over on the PHP Security Blog wrote up a strong criticism of the new article 10 Tips That Every PHP Developer Should Know, Part 2 (part of a two part series).... Read More
If anyone missed this letter to the MySQL community from its founders, David Axmark and Michael “Monty” Widenius, earlier this month prior to OSCON – it is worth a read. Certainly... Read More
Last blog, there was some interesting discussion about who is responsible when a client is not happy with results. There are two possible answers: 1. Both parties inevitably share blame. 2. You as... Read More
In this blog, I’ve spent plenty of time complaining about the lousy state of service in the web design and development (and IT in general) fields. But over the past 2 years, some great service... Read More
The announcement by the Open Source Development Labs further reinforces an observation made in my previous post on the forthcoming new GPL version3. This should go a long way to continue to expand... Read More
While news reports are projecting a new General Public License from the Free Software Foundation in 2007 – I believe they are missing the key point in the exercise. This is largely being... Read More
Terry Chay has written up a detailed response to common complaints about PHP security. He addresses many of the common complaints thrown at PHP such as PHP’s use of the global namespace,... Read More
Here’s one from the ‘I.. want.. one..’ department. Picture it. You’re using your right hand to add elegant flowing curves to a nice header graphic on your Touch Senstive LCD... Read More
Variety is the spice of life! With Photoshop, CSS, and a little creativity, you can enjoy a feast of design options. Corrie shows how easy it is to tweak the graphic ingredients of your designs to... Read More
Two service providers come every six months or so to help us out at home. One washes our windows. The other pressure cleans our pool deck. Both cost the same, and both do good work. But I am loyal to... Read More
