November 2005
This is just a blog post to let you know that some days really stink, and there’s not much you can do about it. As I wake up today, I see that I sent out a newsletter today with an... Read More
In case you missed it, Aaron Wormus has some excellent slides up about building Windows GUIs with PHP: Winbinding your PHP (PDF). In brief, Winbinder is a GUI toolkit for PHP and Windows. The main... Read More
Indexing looks better with humans If you do any reading about search engines the word “algorithm” will jump out at you pretty quick, perhaps with a pinch of MathML, just to make sure the... Read More
A couple of weeks ago, I took the second preview release of the Mozilla XForms Project for a spin, demonstrating how it could be used along with the FormsPlayer plug-in for Internet Explorer to... Read More
Word on the street (original source) is that Windows Vista beta 2, which was slated for a December 7th release, is being pushed to January or February next year. The public release of Internet... Read More
Almost everything in business relations comes down to two tensions: building relationships, and getting results. If you focus too much on building relationships, you tend to avoid conflict and... Read More
People often view ecommerce as a big step that one doesn’t enter into lightly, and that’s mostly true if you’re making your first ecommerce site. However one thing people often do not... Read More
Launching a blog? Countless blog software providers compete for your patronage: how will you decide which to use? Vinnie assesses the performance of the most popular self-hosted options -- Movable... Read More
SpreadFirefox.com have a gallery of screenshots up to celebrate Firefox’s first birthday. In its first year of official release it has enjoyed more than 100 million downloads (check out the... Read More
A reader emailed me recently, wondering why editors of various publications wouldn’t print an article he had written. The article was fine, and would be good for his target market. Here’s... Read More
A useful table: Apache and IIS PHP $_SERVER Superglobal Comparision. If you’ve written code that’s had to run under more than one web server environment (even PHP as CGI vs. PHP as module... Read More
Protect your online forms from automated attacks using a security image: users must correctly enter the characters shown in the image before the form can be submitted. Edward shows how to create... Read More
Microsoft isn’t the only one giving away IDEs. Java Studio Creator is now a free download. Either Sun wasn’t getting many takers at the normal US$99 price point (which was chosen to... Read More
There comes a time in the life of every website publisher when he has to ask himself a question, “Should I use popunders, or not?” On the pro side of this question, popunders have many... Read More
