March 2008
For all the recent buzz and bubble generated by the IE8 beta, the slightly depressing reality is that IE6 is still going to be occupying more of our thoughts (and nightmares) for the foreseeable... Read More
G’day all you loyal readers! I have 15 invites to Twine for anyone who can provide me with their URI. You don’t have one? Well, a little hint, read this post by Tim Berners-Lee and then... Read More
More fallout from the BlueDragon open source announcement of last week: New Atlanta President Vince Bonfanti attempts to clear up some misconceptions; Allan Williamson gives an example of how the new... Read More
I’m occassionally irked by the fact that a collection of DOM elements (more formally called a NodeList) can’t be manipulated like an array, because it isn’t one. However it does... Read More
One challenge we face with having an enormous online archive of articles (over 1,400 at last count) is that finding information can be difficult — especially if you’re just beginning your... Read More
ColdFusion 8 makes building RIAs easy, and in this article Scott shows how. You'll be guided through the construction of a fully functional user management application, complete with sortable tables,... Read More
Following hot on the heels of Apple’s reported problems with over-heating Macbook Air laptops, whispers emanating from Cupertino suggest Apple intends to launch a surprise raid on the lucrative... Read More
In Part 1 of my analysis of the results from our reader survey, I revealed how your improvement suggestions were distributed, but some of the categories were a bit vague. For example “content... Read More
Yahoo! is soon to launch their next generation Web search system dubbed SearchMonkey. This means that content developers have a powerful new tool in their arsenal. Something that was nearly... Read More
With Twine, what you see on screen tells only half the story. Pull back the curtain and it reveals a whole new side just itching to play with the other kids on the block. When I log on and view my... Read More
With the recent announcement from Yahoo and subsequent flurry of posts that followed, something became clear to me. Yahoo! didn’t accept Microsoft’s offer because it had an ace card up... Read More
We recently ran a survey that asked, among other things, how we could improve sitepoint.com for our readers. The survey elicited just shy of 5,000 responses, and as the main person responsible for... Read More
Putting It All Together 1. Place the Files on your Server Place the HTML form somewhere under your Website’s document root, and your CGI script in your Website’s cgi-bin directory. Note:... Read More
Creating the File Upload Script Handling the data that the browser sends when it uploads a file is quite a complex process. Fortunately, the Perl CGI library, CGI.pm, does most of the dirty work for... Read More
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