Hey, I’m back after taking a couple of days off (aaahhhhh….), and I’m about to embark on a strange new adventure: I shall attempt to discover that far-flung, exotic locale where I hear told that the rare Zend Framework lives underneath the shady canopy of the Willowgarden. I will make copious notes as I conduct […]

Hey folks, if you’re developing Web apps with PHP (4.3+ or 5+) and have been wondering how to take full advantage of all that Ajax has to offer, you owe it to yourself to check out xajax! 0.2.4 started out as a quick big-fix update and ended up containing a few really neat new feature […]

Hey everyone, it’s April and raining where I am (in “sunny” California). Actually, a couple of hours ago the weather cleared up and now it’s quite lovely. Mmmm, nothing like the smell of recent rain in the garden when the sun’s come out.
Anyway, you don’t need to hear me blather about the weather. I just […]

If you’ve ever wondered how OS X launches an executable and what format an OS X executable is in, you’ll want to read this. It’s kind of surreal to read it in the middle of the night after a two-hour-long coding marathon. Kids, don’t try this at home….

Supporting international languages via Ajax seems like it should be easy, since browsers send Ajax data using UTF-8, right? Well, it’s not that simple, because there are a large number of people out there still developing Web applications on the server using older ISO encodings (at least in the PHP world). So, with our project […]

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 […]

From the news release:
We’re very pleased to present to you a major upgrade to xajax featuring a number of new features, under-the-hood improvements, and bugfixes.
Some highlights include: object support for registered functions, support for registering functions in external PHP files, pre-function and catch-all function support, optional error handling, a heavily refactored Javascript engine, a […]

I’m happy to report that xajax 0.2 will be released early next week in stable form and will coincide with the launch of a new domain and wiki. I will have much more to blog about next week regarding xajax, but for now, I just want to say that I’m feeling very good about the […]

Read this and this, and then come back and tell me this isn’t the next big thing. I think it is. I wasn’t even aware there was a publishing protocol in the works based on Atom until today when a friend forwarded an article that was on eWeek a couple of months ago. After reading […]

Update: I just fixed a typo in the Tooltip URL. My bad!
Davey Shafik, a well-known PHP coder, has now released some Javascript fun for us Web geeks. It’s called Tooltip.js, and it allows you to create tooltips for various elements on your pages while using all the latest fun Javascript effects that you are used […]