Full Stack Web Dev & Design

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…

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Eclipse for PHP, eclipse for everyone!

I really like Eclipse as a Java IDE, I do! :D However I'm getting really tired of having a different IDE for each language I am working with, no matter how cool those IDEs might be. Different display conventions, different keyboard shortcuts, different…...

A little adventure into web dev

My real life has been holding me off from blogging and all that stuff for the last month. However, as I was sick and staying at home for the last two days, as there was nothing on TV (I really oughta get that satellite dish!), I pulled out my…...

Development is an art!

There are two approaches to development. Some regard it as a science and try to bend every development into a process called "Software Engineering". Others regard it as an art, also known as "coding". :P Unfortunately, the former…...

Fast rollovers, no preload needed

Pure CSS, no javascript, no preload. The best rollover technique, ever! Via Simon.

IE 6 not refreshing

Just stumbled upon yet another funky IE6 "bug" (if I may say so... When you want to automatically refresh to another page, you send a header that looks something like: Refresh:0;url=http://blah.blah.blah The funky thing is that if that header…...

Successful Regular Expressions

Via John Lim: Tony Stubblebine has a nice article teaching Five Habits for Successful Regular Expressions [dead links]: What? You can put comments into regexps? Why hasn't anybody said so before? :?: Worse: why isn't anybody actually doing it??? Hum...…...

MagpieRSS

MagpieRSS provides an XML-based (expat) RSS parser in PHP. MagpieRSS is compatible with RSS .9 through RSS 1.0, and supports the RSS 1.0's modules (with a few exceptions).

CSS is no cure for layout techniques abuse

Browsing the web for CSS related info often turns out to be a painful search through naive CSS glorification and anti table propaganda... :-/ So I always find it very refreshing when I stumble upon a more balanced article like Sitepoint's "Exploring the…...

Quote of the day - Concurrent development

The truth is that concurrent development is hard. Good SCM tools make it easier, but some people prefer to adopt processes which prevent complexity instead of using tools which help manage complexity. -Eric W. Sink

Advanced PHP book?

So I've been developing on b2evolution for a couple of months now and people seem to be quite happy with it ;) (read the testimonials! ;) ) Nevertheless I still feel like I'd really need to learn PHP for real someday! :. I mean, it's easy to learn the…...