Archive for May, 2008

The Opera Magazine

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Quiz: How many browsers have their own magazines? Answer: One! I recently received my paperback copy of the first issue of the Opera Magazine, Opera's new lifestyle magazine. I have mixed opinions about the first issue: while some parts were funny or interesting, the other parts were not, so I can't decide whether ...

Resource URLs and JavaScript

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Sometimes when working with JavaScript, you may need to refer some resource: Maybe a page or an image. They're then used on the client-side code on your site. But what happens if you restructure your project? Files move elsewhere... Maybe even domains change - you might be moving content to a ...

Improving Firefox usability

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Firefox is a good browser, but there are some small parts that have always bothered me when I use it. Keyboard shortcuts - they don't really work Lack of mouse gestures out of the box Weird tab behavior These mostly come from the fact that I'm used to Opera, which does these things a ...

Accessible and effective CAPTCHA

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

I've visited the topic of different CAPTCHA methods for checking that the user sending data is a human being in a couple of occasions in the past. There's usually a slight problem with accessibility and ease of use in some methods - take the typical image-based CAPTCHA as an example: How ...

Django = Awesome

Friday, May 16th, 2008

So in the lack of anything "useful" to post, and in the attemps to at least post something interesting, I shall dedicate this post to talking about what makes Django such an awesome framework! I'm going to compare it to Zend Framework, as it's the framework I'm most familiar with.

Excellent Zend Framework request-response process flowchart

Monday, May 5th, 2008

I usually don't post links to images or other stuff, but this one was just so good that I have to plug it here: A really nice flowchart showing Zend Framework's request-response process. The order where things happen in ZF is often something people ask about, so this is a big ...

Is PHP a good first language?

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Sometimes I've seen people say PHP is a bad first language, because it teaches bad programming habits. But is this actually true at all? Often those who say that don't really like PHP themselves either, many times because of equally untrue reasons. I think PHP is a perfectly good first programming ...