Archive for 2005
December 13th, 2005 by Rich Zygler
tags: AJAX, Application Design, Applications, Business, JavaScript, PHP, Security | No Comments »
For the life of me, I’ll never understand why people and companies continue to sell boxed PHP applications. As hokey and corporate-cliché as this sounds, companies should instead be selling relationships. Not software. Especially not boxed PHP software.
So, SQL Fusion has created a “Drag and Drop Site ...
November 19th, 2005 by Rich Zygler
tags: General | No Comments »
I'm not 100% happy with the way the syntax highlighting is working out so far with the code examples. I may have to hack up the plug-in. My apologies if it's annoying you as well.
UPDATE 12/2/2005: It would help if I actually included the css file, eh? ...
November 18th, 2005 by Rich Zygler
tags: Design Patterns, PHP | No Comments »
There is probably no design pattern handier and easier to set up than a Singleton pattern. One of the best uses in PHP apps is for configuration variables. You can use define all over the place or you can use $GLOBAL but things work a lot better ...
November 11th, 2005 by Rich Zygler
tags: JavaScript, PHP, Security | 1 Comment »
I'm mentoring a few folks at work in web app development, specifically PHP. Today, the subject of form data validation came up when I pointed out to them that their app had none. No matter what data I entered for name, email address, etc., that data ...
November 9th, 2005 by Rich Zygler
tags: MySQL, PHP, XML, XSL | 1 Comment »
For a personal project that I’m working on in PHP4, I’m using XSLT to display a bunch of pages. Most times, I don’t use the XSL transforms for the whole page, usually just tables of data that are returned from a query. The first thing that you need to ...
October 7th, 2005 by Rich Zygler
tags: Graphic Design, Web Design | No Comments »
Just got Adobe CS 2 for some graphics work on the PC at home. I'll be the first to admit that programmers shouldn't do graphics, but there's an urgent need (and I also like to play) so there you go. So far, so good, everything is similar enough ...
October 4th, 2005 by Rich Zygler
tags: Business, PHP | No Comments »
Stuff like this drives me nuts. Ning is out. It's a social app builder that can join other social apps together. It sounds complicated but it's really not. Anyway, I registered, confirmed my registration and now it won't let me log in but it says ...
May 7th, 2005 by Rich Zygler
tags: Job Search, Perl | 1 Comment »
I realize I've been pretty busy with my projects lately and haven't had that much time to check out all that's hip and happening in the world of web development... but... ummm... when did it become cool to develop web apps in Perl? Found this today... CGI::Application: A Simple, ...
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