Archive for November, 2005

9Rules Round 3 Draws to an End

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

As I mentioned a while back, I was going to give 9Rules round 3 a bash (it now looks pretty certain that I didn’t make it in).
Well with the last day upon us, and there is apparently Still a lot more to go. More than 100 and less than 500 was Scrivs answer [...]

CSS: To Hack or Not To Hack

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Tantek Çelik has written an interesting post on CSS hacks entitled Pandora’s Box (Model) of CSS Hacks And Other Good Intentions. Definitely worth the read.
It is a problem with all kinds of programming, that when people initially start to learn, the idea of the hack is one that has much appeal. Pushing the limits, doing [...]

AHAH, a simpler AJAX

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

I ran across this very interesting page detailing a simple way to do AJAX style pages, called AHAH: Asynchronous HTML and HTTP.
Now AJAX has many issues, but most of them are to do with the way people program/design their AJAX applications, rather than the underlying technology. However, the underlying JavaScript that is [...]

PHP 5.1.0 Released

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

PHP 5.1.0 has been released. Some of the key features of this version are:

A complete rewrite of date handling code, with improved timezone support.
Significant performance improvements compared to PHP 5.0.X.
PDO extension is now enabled by default.
Over 30 new functions in various extensions and built-in functionality.
Bundled libraries, PCRE and SQLite upgraded to latest versions.
Over 400 [...]

Analytics, a week later

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Analytics, an attempt at encouraging usability?