Jahr: 2005

ZDnet.com – IBM: ‚LAMP‘ users need to grow up: „‚If you look at the history of LAMP development, they’re really primative tools … the so-called good enough model. The type of businesses being created around those particular business models are essentially going to have to grow up at some point. I believe that in the…

Dave Megginson – Problem-first design: „How many developers do you know who complain about working nights and weekends manually entering connection information for thousands of publicly available web services? Given that there are, at most, a few dozen sites offering web services over the public web (and that’s web services in the most general sense,…

Andy Lester – What’s the worst bug you’ve ever written?: „Then, after the candidate tells me the story of the terrible bug, I ask the crucial follow-up: „What did you learn? What did you change about yourself?“ The reaction is often telling, and I can easily see how self-aware she is. If the answer is…

Matthew Eernisse at ONLamp.com – A Simpler Ajax Path: „While not exactly new, the XMLHttpRequest object is receiving more attention lately as the linchpin in a new approach to web app development, most recently dubbed Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML). […] As it turns out, it’s pretty easy to take advantage of the XMLHttpRequest object…

Sean Coates – XSS Woes: „What I forgot about, as I suspect some of you have, too (or maybe I’m the only loser who didn’t think of this (-; ), is that $_SERVER[‚PHP_SELF‘] can be manipulated by the user.“

„Oracle and Zend Technologies have entered into a partnership to develop an integrated solution designed to help developers build and deploy database-driven Web applications based on the popular PHP scripting language. We will make available Zend Core for Oracle, which is a fully tested and supported PHP 5 distribution that will include integration with Oracle…

Joel Spolsky – Making Wrong Code Look Wrong: „The real point is that exceptions eliminate collocation. You have to look somewhere else to answer a question of whether code is doing the right thing, so you’re not able to take advantage of your eye’s built-in ability to learn to see wrong code, because there’s nothing…

Sparkline PHP Graphing Library: „Sparklines are „intense, simple, wordlike graphics“ so named by Edward Tufte. […] We aim to increase the adoption of sparklines on the web by providing a high-quality PHP sparkline library.“

Robert Jones at ONLamp.com – Rich Web Text Editing with Kupu: „Kupu is an open source application, written in JavaScript, that implements a flexible, full-featured HTML editor that runs in a web page without any special plugins. Its primary use is as an embedded editor in content management systems (CMS), like Zope or Plone, where…

David Pogue in the New York Times – From Apple, a Tiger to Put in Your Mac [registration required]: „The most important is Spotlight, which is like Google for your hard drive. As you type into the Spotlight box in your menu bar, a tidy menu instantly drops down. It lists every file, folder, program,…