Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Simon Willison – Easier form validation with PHP: „FormML (for want of a better name) is never passed to the browser; instead it is processed by my PHP FormProcessor class before being displayed. This class strips out all of the FormML tags, and also applies logic to the rest of the form based on the…

Demian Turner cites Fred Brooks‘ book The Mythical Man-Month – Why is programming fun?: „Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media…

Ben Hunt – Current style in web design: „I’m glad to say that web design in 2006 is better than ever. […] The examples below (which I’ll roll over time) show excellent modern graphic design technique. They all look good, and are clear and easy to use.“

Tim Bray – On PHP: „I should really buckle down and try writing a PHP app because, at the moment, I have an attitude problem. […] All the PHP code I’ve seen in that experience has been messy, unmaintainable crap. Spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti PHP wrapped in spaghetti HTML, replicated in slightly-varying form in…

„Welcome to AquaBrowser Library. Discover: * A constellation of words on the left shows you related terms, spelling variations and translations. * Click on words in the constellation to explore the contents of the catalogue. Refine: * Refine shows you what your search results contain. * Click on any term to focus and narrow your…

„IBM today announced a company-wide initiative that combines its software and industry consulting expertise to help clients better compete in the global economy through uninhibited access to accurate, reliable and trustworthy business information. […] Additionally, IBM is announcing six new solution portfolios and new software products to help clients transform their businesses from an outdated…

„Campfire makes group chat easy Every chat has a permanent URL Campfire chats don’t require special chat software or networks Instantly share and discuss files with your colleagues/clients Search or browse through transcripts of past chats“

„With Vanilla we wanted to break the mold created and followed by just about every other forum on the web. We sat down and thought about what we liked, and more importantly, what we didn’t like about web forums. We wanted emphasis on the discussions rather than the statistics. […] Vanilla is a PHP /…

Tim Bray – The Real AJAX Upside: „Pretty well all Web-publishing software does lots of templating and dynamic page generation, and pretty well all of it is piggish, stressing out servers (and, to be fair, representing a pretty good business opportunity for my employer). I suspect there’s a huge system-wide optimization waiting out there for…

„Welcome to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. We are very happy to be sharing our library with the design and development community. This is our first drop of what we hope to be a monthly release cycle for the publication of patterns.“