I built my first web home page and made my first contributions to the School of Engineering Journal at UPenn in 1993.
And I’ve built at lot more since then…
Here are some of the things I learned along the way…
Here's a quick list of the Firefox extensions I'm using all the time for web development: DOM Inspector IE View (One button to check the same page in IE) ColorZilla (Lets you check colors on a web page) MeasureIt (Lets you measure Elements on a…...
"A sure sign of my descent into senility is bitchin' and moanin' about "kids these days," and how they won't or can't do anything hard any more." So goes the intro to Joel's "The Perils of JavaSchools". Higly relevant and highly recommended, as us…...
At PHP Forum, Rasmus wisefully explained that SOAP is intrinsically broken because it's too complex... just as anything that takes more than 20 minutes to understand. When it comes to webservices, I myself tend to prefer XML-RPC ("Does distributed co…...
There's one thing I was wondering about: why would you actually want to use the DOM/XML writing functions of PHP to generate XML? I mean: we've been generating HTML without specific functions for over 10 years, so why would we need a library to build a…...
Here are a few bits of information I collected at PHP Forum (Nov 9 & 10, 2005): It is estimated than no more than 5% of the servers running PHP have switched to PHP 5 yet PHP 5.0 is a feature release, not a performance release. Therefore it is…...
At PHP Forum, Rasmus said this about the "templating engine question coming back every year": PHP *is* a templating engine by itself. Adding another templating engine on top of it just doesn't make sense. The only situation where it makes sense, is…...
The PHP Core Team is meeting this week to decide wether or not there should be some caching built into the next major release of PHP. (I guess that would be PHP 6). I definitely hope the answer will be YES since this has been available on others…...
I've spent the last two days at PHP Forum Paris 2005. Very interesting stuff! I'll try to blog the most important facts (IMHO) over the week-end... But, now when you think about it, I've been there last year also... Very interesting stuff also... And I…...
Most PHP developers (and other web developpers too) seem to evolve on a similar path which goes like this: Step 1: take HTML pages an add PHP tags into them. Step 2: Realize that on a large scale this is getting very hard to maintain. Step 3: Learn…...
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