For those of you using BeebleX, the PHP search engine, you might wish to install the new BeebleX search plugin I released yesterday. Note: You need a Mozilla browser, such as Firefox or Mozilla. Enjoy!

Today I had a peek at beta.msn.com and noticed they have a new look, which I assume will get ported over to msn.com once the kinks are ironed out. And kinks there are! Just have a look using Firefox, yikes. I get the feeling the cleaner, whiter look is inspired by Google. The collapsable boxes […]

Break out your old Bescherelle! The French language PHP/MySQL site, Nexen.net, has published some statistics about PHP usage. I found it interesting that Nova Scotia is the Canadian province with the most PHP usage, followed by Nunavut, then Ontario and B.C. Also, why aren't web hosts upgrading to PHP5? Less than 4% in the analysis […]

I was working with Zen Cart today, the open source shopping cart application, and with HTMLArea enabled, tried to paste some placeholder text into a page. I received an error about security settings in Firefox not permitting standard clipboard functions for scripts. Funny, I haven't noticed this in the past with FCKeditor or TinyMCE. Anyway, […]

Paul Thurrott, Windows expert, author and publisher of SuperSite for Windows, recently penned an article about Internet Explorer 7 for Windows IT Pro in which he says, "My advice is simple: Boycott IE. It's a cancer on the Web that must be stopped. IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for […]

This news took a couple of days to reach me: The core developers of the Mambo content management system have had a philosophical split with Miro, the Australian founding company behind Mambo. Specifically problematic, was the formation of the Mambo Foundation, and the refusal of Miro to transfer copyright to the Mambo Foundation.
Mambo's core […]