March 2006
This entry reproduced from The Tech Times #134. Last month, I attended a meeting of the Melbourne chapter of the Web Standards Group, where Richard Ishida, the Internationalization Activity Lead of... Read More
Yesterday’s first meeting worked out pretty well, to the point where I needed a quiet morning. Good turnout for the kick off thanks to everyone that made it and especially to Christian for... Read More
(via Digg) While Ian Lloyd has chronicled the goings on at SXSW 2006 (day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4), those of us at SitePoint HQ have had to jealously read the headlines from here. One nugget that I... Read More
It’s final day out here in Austin’s SXSW festival (or at least the final part of the interactive portion) and for the first time since coming here four years ago I’m actually... Read More
So you’re probably wondering what the title I chose above is all about. It only really occurred to me last night when someone said to me that this year at SXSW it felt like the dot com boom... Read More
Since we so recently published Dan Webb’s article on the Prototype library, it makes sense to continue tracking the evolution of the library here in this blog. In the Prototype library, the... Read More
One of the most problematic aspects of SXSW is knowing what to attend and what not to attend. At any given time there may be up to six different sessions that you can attend. That means each day you... Read More
Marcus Whitney handled another podcast very coolly last Friday with Microsoft – Brian Goldfarb and Joe Stagner, covering their cross training strategy – http://www.learn2asp.net/ –... Read More
Another March comes around, and with it another South By Southwest (SXSW). Once again I find myself making the pilgrimage with other like-minded web geeks to the web conference that really sets the... Read More
Thanks for the comments to the last post, about being accessible. It seems in many responses that some readers could use a refresher (or first-time) course on appropriate assertion. Assertion is what... Read More
Pierre-Alain Joye picked this one up last week, and it needs repeating. For PHP6 the following are already gone from CVS: Register globals Magic quotes Safe mode As blogged a while back, you’ll... Read More
Just a quick reminder: Be accessible, especially to clients. There is nothing worse than trying to reach a professional with a full voice mail box or who takes more than a few hours to return a call.... Read More
Another update, because this release contains some notable additions, namely unit tests (needs PHPUnit2) and the all important controller documentation. There’s a release announcement here.... Read More
If you've avoided JavaScript, or only knew it in its previous "toy language" incarnations, now's the time to step up and get to know the newer, smarter JavaScript. This hands-on tour will... Read More
