Archive For April 23rd, 2003
Short Reg article on Apple’s Piles – new ideas for their GUI. “Gestures” are talked about too. I tried gestures for a while in my browser but they were too clumsy and difficult to use for me. They could make using a mouse easier for RSI suffers though.
phpPatterns() has been updated with a wealth of articles! Stuff on Mozilla XUL, PHP5, PDF, APIs, PEAR::SOAP. Excellent reading. The article on PHP5 is a bit of a rant aimed at PHP developers. PHP5 will make it more important than ever to be familiar with OOP and advanced programming techniques, as well as plain old [...]
Here’s a good comment off a Zend Smarty tutorial on why you should use Smarty. With smarty all I had to do was write the engine in PHP and then all the deigners had to do was come up with the new templates. Then for each customer, there was 1 universal engine, one that I [...]
This is Ireland’s entry in the Eurovision. We (the Irish public that is) went mad for several weeks to pick out Mickey Harte singing “We’ve Got the World Tonght”. Of course I watched it only because Martina was watching it!
Simon wanted a bookmarklet to examine the css style sheet of any particular html element on a page. Sil created a beautiful bookmarklet that displays the style properties of your page as you move the mouse over them! Wow! Tres nice! Unfortunately another bookmarklet didn’t work worked strangely in Galeon 1.2.9 (and Moz 1.3). I [...]
If you use Kmail, then you should be aware of a serious usability error that exists in it. I’ve only tested this in Kmail 1.5 which ships with Red Hat 9. Look at my ILUG post for a detailed description. Briefly, pressing a key will jump to a folder with a name that starts with [...]
A short article introducing the workflow of a typical Smarty/PEAR::DB application. You’ll need to know a bit about both to get the most from the examples though, but the author has some good ideas.
