Archive for July, 2004

XHTML Frequently Answered Questions

Saturday, July 24th, 2004

The W3C has recently released a document titled – XHTML Frequently Answered Questions. The FAQ answers questions like:

  • Why is XHTML needed? Isn’t HTML good enough?
  • What are the advantages of using XHTML rather than HTML?
  • and, Why is it allowed to send XHTML 1.0 documents as text/html?

GD Graphics Library Supports GIF

Friday, July 23rd, 2004

With the recent worldwide end to the GIF patent, GD Graphics Library (version 2.0.28) restores support for reading and writing GIF images.

Installing PHP 5 on OS X

Thursday, July 22nd, 2004

The Farm (which is a blog for the Tucows Developers’) has a howto on Installing PHP 5 on OS X. You should note that these instructions will only work if you’re using Server Logistics’ Complete Apache 2 and Complete MySQL.

IE Development Blog

Thursday, July 22nd, 2004

IEBlog is the Internet Explorer development team’s way to provide a better connection with the IE Team. Their goal is to provide, direct from the source, for information about IE:

What are we working on? How do we make decisions? Why does some part of IE work the way it does? What keeps us up late at night? What are we thinking of around security, extensibility, and other key areas? Hey, any good tips and tricks?

[link via JD on MX]

Pixen

Wednesday, July 21st, 2004

Calling all Pixel Artists! Pixen is a bitmap editing program for Mac OSX. Pixen was specifically designed for small-scale or pixel art and is free and open source.

10 Ways to Infuse your Work with your Personality

Wednesday, July 21st, 2004

10 ways to infuse your work with your personality offers some suggestions as to how you can personalize your creativity.

12 Suggestions for Working in Groups

Tuesday, July 20th, 2004

A dozen things I think I know about working in groups is an article that may help with your success while working in a collaborative environment. The tips include:

  1. Embrace ego.
  2. Use the group for having ideas, not just ratifying them.
  3. Beware premature optimization.
  4. Structure is not tyranny.
  5. Decide how to decide.
  6. Settle on social software.
  7. Get it in writing.
  8. Match roles and goals.
  9. Talk about the relationship.
  10. Accept inequality.
  11. There is no substitute for time.
  12. Have a drink. You’ve earned it.

Meta-Tags

Tuesday, July 20th, 2004

There is some good discussion on the use of Meta-Tags at Whitespace. Paul Scrivens asks whether or not they are still useful and if they are, which ones should be included on every web page you author.

Competent CSS Classing

Monday, July 19th, 2004

Eric Meyer offers some thoughts on Competent Classing to help you create more efficient Cascading Style Sheets.

Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5

Monday, July 19th, 2004

With the recent release of PHP 5.0.0, Zend.com has a fitting article that will help you Migrate from PHP 4 to PHP 5. The article covers the following topics:

  • What has changed in PHP 5
  • Backward Incompatible Changes
  • CLI and CGI
  • Migrating Configuration Files
  • New Functions
  • New Directives
  • Databases
  • New Object Model
  • Error Reporting