Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Zachary Kessin at ONLamp.com: „This article shows how to set up a simple SOAP server in PHP and call it from JavaScript.“

According to Macworld UK, „iPod user HRH Queen Elizabeth II has admitted she finds Sony products too difficult to use. Sony’s new CEO Howard Stringer recounted a luncheon with the Queen to Sony shareholders. He told them that the Queen had struggled with certain Sony products. According to Stringer the Queen told him: „I have…

David Megginson – Rails vs. PHP: MVC or view-centric?: „This week, I decided to try PHP and Ruby-on-Rails for prototyping web applications (I’d never used either before). […] So why did I like PHP so much better than Rails?“

The PHP Metadata Toolkit „allows reading, writing and display of the following JPEG metadata formats: * EXIF – including makernotes * XMP / RDF, including multiple language support * Dublin Core * IPTC-NAA IIM * Photoshop IRB * Picture Info * JFIF * DCF * TIFF/EP * JFIF Extension * Embedded Thumbnails * Intrinsic JPEG…

IPTC Metadata for XMP (IPTC4XMP): „IPTC metadata were employed by Adobe Systems Inc. to describe photos already in the early nineties. A subset of the IPTC „Information Interchange Model – IIM“ was adopted as the well known „IPTC Headers“ for Photoshop, JPEG and TIFF image files which currently describe millions of professional digital photos. In…

Jeffrey Veen – Making A Better Open Source CMS: „Give first-time users a series of quick wins that become increasingly complex. When I first log in, I want to create a Web page. Next, I’d like to add some styles to it. Then, I’d like to make links to some other Web pages. I’ll build…

Greg Wilson at ONLamp.com – Top Ten Data Crunching Tips and Tricks: „Every day, all over the world, programmers have to recycle legacy data, translate from one vendor’s proprietary format into another’s, check configuration files, and yank data out of web server logs. This kind of programming is usually called data crunching, and while it’s…

So it’s PHP’s 10th birthday today, and a lot of people wrote about their story with PHP; so here’s mine. It’s not that interesting as I’m a mere user of PHP (having contributed nothing but a few bug reports): In 1998, a friend showed me the php.net homepage – we were impressed by PHP3’s functionality…

„Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!“

The Form Assembly: „The Form Builder is a tool for creating standard compliant web forms. It integrates the wForms extension and relies on a set of technologies like XML, XMLHttpRequest, XSLT and DOM (a.k.a Ajax) to provide a seamless single-screen experience.“