The Idea Basket

Archive for February, 2006

PHP rants miss the point

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

There has been a recent flurry of posts in the blogosphere regarding PHP’s suitability as a serious Web programming language. I don’t have time to link to them all — check out the latest news entries at PHPDeveloper.org for a good rundown. However, I’ll try to distill them down for you:

Most PHP apps are spaghetti […]

Old becomes new: Camino is back!

Friday, February 17th, 2006

After much time of languish and neglect, Camino is back, and back with a vengence. I’m posting this using the new Camino 1.0 browser for Mac OS X, and I’m extremely impressed. It has all the nice Gecko-y rendering power, yet has a simple Safari-like Cocoa interface and nice Cocoa-style widgets for the HTML forms. […]

Health before wealth

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

Dear blog readers, I apologize for the dead air here at the Idea Basket. A medical emergency in the family has taken precedence over anything else the past couple of weeks, but things are looking up, hope is upon us, and I look forward to getting back to a regular posting schedule. Thanks for your […]