Open Source Business Model

Lately I’ve been playing with the idea of developing some sort of open source software. As I near graduation, I’m trying to find ways to add to my awkwardly thin resumé. I feel a well planned open source project might be just the addition to my resumé that could land me a job in the already flooded php developer market. Read more

Internet Explorer and Forms

I ran across this little quirk with Internet Explorer the other day. It appears that when a form is submitted by actually clicking the submit button, an element in the PHP array $_POST is created for the button. Simple enough, right? Well I noticed that when the form was submitted by pressing the Enter key instead of clicking the submit button, an element in the $_POST array was not created for the button. It’s not an exceptionally large quirk, but definitely caused me to rethink my form submission checking. Firefox and Safari created the array element for the button regardless of how the form was submitted.. This occured with Internet Explorer 6.0 and PHP version 5.0.3
Internet Explorer, PHP, forms

New Layout

If you hadn’t noticed yet. I did a little redesign. I know its not much but atleast now it’s Valid Markup. Having only a Windows machine, I’m unable to test on some browsers. If you own a mac, please let me know of any bugs or quirks you run across along with what browser you were using.

How to Oust Unwanted Spiders

As a whole, web spiders and robots are a good thing. They are an automated means for search engines to index new content on your site. However, there are some cases in which spyders and robots can be a bad thing. For instance, improper spydering techniques can cause the indexing of individual pages multiple times or repeat visits by the same bot daily. This all adds up to wasted bandwidth and skewed traffic statistics. Read more

Why Use Web Standards?

I came across this article over at 456 Berea Street. It’s entitled Ten Reasons to Learn and Use Web Standards. It is defnitely worth a read. Now I finally have more than just a handful of rebuttals for my next web standards debate. I find myself invovled in, if not instegating, that argument more and more these days.

Ten Reasons to Learn and Use Web Standards

web standards, usability

Goodbye Macromedia, It’s Been Fun

If you happend to waddle over to Macromedia’s website today, you might have noticed the banner atop the page adorned with the adobe logo and off to the right text displaying “formerly macromedia”. Adobe completed the acquistion of Macromedia and has already set the wheels in motion to integrate the two design studios.

Announcements have been made stating that new software bundles will be released that includes software from both lines. One labeled a Design bundle with Adobe CS2 Premium and Macromedia Flash Pro 8. Another titled the Web bundle will feature CS2 Premium and the full Macromedia Studio 8. A third package is expected dealing largely in video, but nothing solid has been said as of yet.

I trust that Adobe won’t mar the great software that Macromedia has built over the years. I believe that this acquistion can bring design software to an all new level and maybe even some new web technologies.

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Gmail Now Has Antivirus

It appears Gmail has added a new feature. Your email attachments are now scanned for viruses automatically.

If a virus is found in an attachment you’ve received, our system will attempt to remove it, or clean the file, so you can still access the information it contains. If the virus can’t be removed from the file, you won’t be able to download it.

If you are sending an attachment that contains a virus, gmail blocks you from sending the attachment.

Hasn’t this been implemented in other large scale, free email accounts for quite some time now? I can’t speak for Hotmail (because I hate it and refuse to have an account), but Yahoo Mail has had Norton Antivirus scanning every attachment of mine for quite some time now. Maybe Google isn’t as “on the ball” as we had all thought.

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