October 2005
Google’s URL removal page contains a little bit of handy information that’s not found on their webmaster info pages where it should be. Google supports the use of “wildcards”... Read More
The AJAX MAss Storage System (AMASS) is a clever blend of JavaScript and Flash that doesn’t actually have anything to do with AJAX — except that it will help decrease the amount of AJAX... Read More
In Part 1, Alex introduced our implementation of Catfish ads and demonstrated how we managed to have them appear at the bottom of the window, in all browsers, without jerky motion while scrolling. If... Read More
If you want more control over your hosting, but you're not quite ready for a co-located server, VPS hosting might be just what you're after. In this quick-and-dirty guide, Tom introduces the concept... Read More
Yes, Google is updating, changing, shifting, call it anything you like but don’t call it dancing. So what’s happening? Search results are shifting around like mad, that’s... Read More
At the risk of turning this into a PHP Collaboration Project linkblog, it looks like the official home of the project for now will be here: PHP Collaboration Project. A video introduction, public... Read More
There’s a lot about SimpleXML, PHP5′s new API for accessing the contents of XML documents, in SitePoint’s recently-published book No Nonsense XML Web Development With PHP, but one... Read More
Last year at this time, I was considering just when to buy a one-year subscription to JavaOne online. If I timed it right, I figured, I could pay for one year and watch two years’ worth of... Read More
Just a brief update on the PHP Collaboration Project (PCP for short… hmm…), the rumours of which I speculated on yesterday. It seems an official announcement was indeed made at the... Read More
If you've visited the site at all in the last 2 months you would have most likely noticed our new Catfish book banners hugging the page bottom from time-to-time. Since we launched them, we've been... Read More
Word on the street is that Zend and IBM are cooking up a big open source initiative called the PHP Collaboration Project. The project will be based on PHP and Eclipse, and will aim to compete with... Read More
Macromedia’s recently-announced Flex 2.0 platform (see Flex 2.0 announced with more affordable pricing) is now available to download in alpha form from Macromedia’s newly-launched... Read More
Lots of professionals offer their clients a free consultation or free trial. These usually don’t work as an initial offer. Why? Because people are skeptical. They don’t know you in the... Read More
This isn’t exactly breaking news anymore. I decided a while ago that one of my first posts on this blog would be about Yahoo’s new publisher network. Unfortunately it took longer than I... Read More
