March 2006
Many Sitepoint readers ask how they can build a firm that is worth something, that has employees, that lasts longer than their participation in it — in short, a firm that they can sell. Here is... Read More
Seem to be spilling links today. Anyway – via the Zend Framework mailing list (subscribe to fw-general-subscribe _at_ lists.zend.com), the first full tutorial, written by Chris Shiflett, is... Read More
Simon just published the slides from a recent talk he gave – A (Re)-Introduction to JavaScript plus his preparatory notes (PDF). Basically a programmers introduction to Javascript and excellent... Read More
I love a good ‘Y’know what would be really cool?‘ moment. A few years back Mike Davidson had the nifty idea of feeding live snapshots from his Puget Sound harbour view directly into... Read More
For today only, anyone, anywhere in the world, can sign-up to become an advertiser on MSN’s new AdCenter system, which will is competing directly head-to-head with AdWords and Yahoo! Search... Read More
Like quite a few people I guess, been absorbed by looking at the first release of the new framework. Originally had been keeping notes on impressions but feel there’s not much point at this... Read More
An case you missed it (it’s all over Planet PHP), the first release of the Zend framework is out. Have only glanced so far so have no valid opinion – will be spending a good while looking... Read More
Let’s get your advice on a classic example of low pricing self-esteem. I’m working with a guy who has a masters from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, extensive software... Read More
Following on from this release, the this turned out to be easier than I thought – ported Text::Unidecode to PHP – code available here or track down the utf8_to_ascii package from the main... Read More
Here is a principle that follows from the last blog post: Never discount your fees. Do something for free, or at full price, but don’t discount. If you discount, your “discount”... Read More
I just spent a couple hours helping a client out with something. Question for you: Should I charge for a couple of hours? Of course not. The client asked me for help for the following reasons: -... Read More
Chris recently raised the difficult issue of content theft and how to tackle it. We’ve certainly had our share of rip-off artistes and generally we’ve found it to be a two-tiered problem.... Read More
As Google’s stock price continues to come back to earth (sort of), and the company acknowledges some weakness in revenues, it is a good time to remind Web developers and designers that... Read More
You have to take your hat off to him: The no-framework PHP MVC framework – a walk through building a simple app with “raw” PHP and a lot of Javascript. Some choice quotes... Read More
