November 2005
Microsoft has launched the Express Editions of Visual Studio 2005: Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Visual C++ 2005 Express... Read More
If you’re looking for 15 minutes diversion, pecl_http is worthwhile, in particular the tutorial.txt file that comes with the download. Basically gives PHP a serious HTTP boost. Some particular... Read More
Hats off to Hong Jen Yee. Forget catching tigers by the tail -- this clever coder and friends have put together an extension able to tame the might of Internet Explorer within a humble Firefox tab.... Read More
Every so often an article or blog post pops up somewhere on the internet about how wonderful image-based (or even sound-based) CAPTCHA are for security of web forms. I am going to point out, again,... Read More
A client just set the record for taking longest to pay in my career: About six months. This was a public University, and so had specific bureaucratic rules. Plus they made a bit of an exception for... Read More
Some times seems like Joel is the last sane voice in software development. Check out this interview (mp3) with CIO Magazine. Things like “MySQL” and “data integrity” in the... Read More
One of the strange realities of PHP is many projects build their design around the lowest common demoninator – the shared web host, and for obvious reasons. Restrictions placed by web hosts on... Read More
From Molly Holzschlag today comes her account of a meeting on Tuesday of the Web Standards Project‘s (WaSP) Microsoft Task Force. Topics of discussion included Microsoft’s upcoming Web... Read More
Apple’s Safari is the first officially-released browser to pass the notorious Acid2 test, which rakes browsers over the coals of obscure CSS standards compliance and error handling. The... Read More
In case you missed it, yesterday Oracle announced a free (as in beer) version of their database – Oracle 10g Express Edition (XE) – basically a “lite” version – some... Read More
Have you checked out www.CafePress.com? I am kicking myself for not thinking of this business. The company sets anyone up to make and sell products. Want to make and sell t-shirts with your design?... Read More
