Here’s a blog post with a nice list of PHP Tools: http://immike.net/blog/2007/08/15/5-tools-every-php-programmer-should-know-about/ I’m especially interested in Phing, a project build system, which I’ll be using for an application I’ll be building in partnership with another company. Here’s a bit summary … Read More
This guy thinks so: A single line of JavaScript is what powers a lot of blogging technologies these days. Widgets, sharing tools, visitors tracking, advertisers. In many cases a single line of JavaScript is all that a blogger needs to … Read More
I just had to post this: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/eric_schmidt_defines_web_30.php Schmidt launched into a great definition of Web 3.0. He said that while Web 2.0 was based on Ajax, Web 3.0 will be “applications that are pieced together” – with the characteristics that … Read More
A function of PHP’s; ctype_alnum can be used to test a string for alpha numeric characters. It will count a space as non-alphanumeric (which is right), so you can use it like so: $string = “test !ng”; if ( !ctype_alnum(preg_replace(‘/[[:space:]]/’, … Read More
At some point I got into my Windows Add/Remove programs and noticed around 5 versions of Java’s J2SE Runtime Environment Update. Each version is listed as so: J2SE Runtime Environment #.# Update # Each of these average around 120MB, and … Read More
Below is a post describing the annoying practice of Experts Exchange hiding usable content from Web visitors while at the same time providing the content to Google for spidering. The two things you can walk away with is that you … Read More
I needed a simple Joomla slideshow recently. After downloading, installing, and taking test drives of a few of them, I decided to go with the Joomla SmoothGallery + Lightbox Mambot. I had to make a few hacks to make it … Read More
These sets of steps are for moving a Joomla site from one linux server to another. This is documented mainly for my own reference, and I think it might make some assumptions, but if you’d like to give it a … Read More
Here’s a blog post attempting to make the case of dropping the www. from urls: The reason for the extra www is now a matter of history. It’s old. Deprecated. Outdated. Antiquated. Like websites that only work in Internet Explorer, … Read More
Pretty popular blog post dugg up here: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/blasting-the-myth-of There is an astonishing amount of disbelief that the users of web pages have learned to scroll and that they do so regularly. Holding on to this disbelief — this myth that … Read More
