February 2006
Ok, you’ve just read Dan Webb’s new feature article, ‘Painless JavaScript Using Prototype‘ and you’re feeling all inspired at the possibilities. What now? Well as it... Read More
Is the sheer weight of your JavaScript code keeping you up nights? Sick of typing document.getElementById over and over (and over)? The Prototype library guarantees to relieve your script-induced... Read More
OK – following on from here and a later comment from Tim (and in fact more this rant from Jonas Maurus); How about somebody sends me some good pro-PHP rants? So here’s some pro-PHP... Read More
In case you haven’t heard – Google is now allowing AdWords clients to bid on ad space in major automatove, lifestyle and technology magazines including PC World, PC Magazine, Martha... Read More
A key tool in any web designer’s or developer’s kit should be a set of idea files. These are files filled with great ideas that you see on the Web or in print ads, and can refer to over... Read More
Tim Bray kicked off a big blog debate on the pros and cons of PHP (see links in his post to everyone who commented). If you’ve been around PHP for a while, there’s basically nothing new... Read More
Reading a couple of web-related security books at the moment. One is Apache Security, by Ivan Ristic (mod_security), who I got to meet again last weekend. Will save a long review for another time... Read More
Here is a reminder about why it is so important to stay in touch with past clients. My sister emailed me this morning. A friend of her needs a certain type of highly specialized professional. My... Read More
Here is a quick case study that shows the importance of how you handle yourself at all times. It involves attorneys, but applies equally well to web designers. Yesterday I had a few copyright... Read More
After seeing what these guys have accomplished, met up with Maarten and Christian and got motivated to start PHP Zürich. This is running in parallel to the Swiss PHP user group, which tends to meet... Read More
Okay, when the author contacted me to suggest an addition to my roundup of top JavaScript libraries, I’ll admit I was skeptical. But after a brief play, I must say: Scripto is very cool.... Read More
WebSideStory has released data breaking down the conversion rates for the top four search engines: AOL, MSN, Yahoo! and Google. For the month of January, AOL Search generated the best conversion rate... Read More
This is republished from The SitePoint Tech Times #132 JavaScript is hard, but it could be a lot harder. These days, choosing your tools can actually be most of the work. Many, many years ago (okay,... Read More
Think this needs stating clearly, following the comment from Bill Edney on of technicalpursuit (Tibet), and because I think it reflects experiences people are having with AJAX. In short think... Read More
