Autor: Tim Strehle

It suddenly clicks: What I always disliked about XSLT was the idea of having to maintain a complex HTML layout in a rather ugly XML file. PHP embedded in HTML is so much nicer to read than HTML embedded in XSL. But if it’s really possible to keep the HTML file extremely plain and simple…

Krysalis: „Transform XML documents into XHTML with PHP and XSL For a web applications programmer who has to develop complex enterprise level applications, web services or multi language dynamic websites (Content Management Systems), Krysalis is a development platform that improves the Apache/PHP framework by separating the application logic from the presentation layer, using open standards…

Nice pictures from Peder’s home Møllerheimen in Norway…

Sterling Hughes: „I was talking […] with Thies at Linuxtag […] about the difference between a fanclub and a business. Thies pointed out that PHP was no longer a fanclub, but was very much a business…. In the early days of a system, it is a fanclub. You are all happily hacking away. If you…

A List Apart: „Assigning accesskeys to menu items adds “Hot-Key” functions to a website, letting frequent users spend less time less time moving and clicking the mouse. This solution, however, has been largely underused because it almost always fails due to two major flaws. The first problem is that visitors to your website have no…

Here are the free Red Hat 9 ISO images.

David Simpson: „I’ve been an Apple customer since I bought my 128K Macintosh in 1984, and I make my living performing Solaris and Windows system administration in my role as an Oracle DBA. So it’s been very exciting for me to see the introduction of Mac OS X and now the availability of Oracle 9i…

Dion Almaer: „Wiki is now everywhere. I can have an easy to edit version of my life, and a lovely trail of all that is important. The web has come to an application, and it is EXTREMELY easy to use.“

Paul Prescod on XML.com: „Do you want to view a chess transcript without installing a ChessGML viewer? You can do that with SVG. Do you want to visualize the output of a geospatial analysis program? You can do that with SVG. Do you want to visualize different aspects of the London underground? SVG. Want to…

I’m using Instant Messaging for (second level) tech support more and more, and it’s great for this purpose: Interaction is just so much faster than with e-mail exchange, and it’s not dragging my attention as far away from my current work as phone calls do. I can send text, URLs, files… Two things we’re used…