I like what I see. It’s not quite polished, but it’s surprisingly mature for such an early release. It’s fast, even w/o being a native PPC G4 buld like DeerPark (3rd-party FF build). I’d even go as far to say that it’s faster than my beloved Safari. Doesn’t choke. Test: myspace. Most browsers I try …
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Smarty: sections and iterators
Just wanted to point this out to any who may be interested, or can’t seem to figure out how to hop around array indices in the Smarty template. In straight PHP it’s simple enough to bounce around to different array indices $array[$ii-1] etc. In Smarty, not so easy. If you want to compare the current …
Glossary links, anyone?
We’ve all been to those sites before – the ones that dubiously insert advert links on keywords throughout the page. It’s pretty annoying because they often have nothing to do with the reason(s) why you were on that page to begin with. So now here I am, telling you how to do it easily. But I assure you – my intentions are completely pure!
Google, search engines fat on SPAM?
I recently read an article in The Register about Google’s recent issues with the massive amounts of spam online. Let’s just be honest moment here: SEO is great but it’s exploited WAY too much on what I would consider illegitimate websites. You know – the ones whose sole purpose is for the display of advertisements, …
Semantic Research: Knowlege Organization
My lab had the opportunity to meet with the folks over at SemanticResearch. Overall, definitely a very intriguing company. But first things first: their offices are located IN the MTv Real World San Diego house, which as some of you might know – is awesome! I really don’t know how they get any work done …
Cross-browser CSS
I must admit – it’s only been recently that I began creating sites almost exclusively favoring CSS over table layouts. I’m starting to get it, and it’s great! There’s one problem with using CSS: different browsers render pages differently… very differently in some cases. I choose Safari and Firefox when I’m first building a layout …
Take Note…
How to Drive your Website Developer Insane: A Primer This is great – one of those blog entries you just read and shake your head because you’ve been there before…
Security: Don’t blindly trust $_SERVER variables
Article one: Chris Shiflett: SERVER_NAME Versus HTTP_HOST Article two: Sean Coates: XSS Woes I thought both were quite insightful, though Sean’s stands-out more because PHP_SELF is used so often (be sure to check-out his phpinfo(); example at the end of the post). One method, as he explained, is to put the $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’] variable into htmlentities() …
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The state of PHP Frameworks
Below is a comment I posted on a friend’s dev blog. Looks like he’s turning RoR because RoR just seems pretty sweet to him (originally a Perl programmer, so he welcomes the improvements Ruby’s brought to the field). Just a bit of background: Doug is my right-hand man on Flood’s new website. He’s pretty new …
Most popular posts
So far it looks like my NVDIA Fedora Core 4 video driver install post is by far the most popular. Before we know it, I’ll probably end up doing a Fedora Core 5 NVIDIA video driver install tutorial (though I can’t imagine it would be much different). Coming in a close second is the rsync …