If you haven't already, go grab the newly released OpenOffice.org 2.0! Tons of new features, bug fixes, and a new look.
One gripe about the installer: it doesn't ask where you want to install–it picks the location for you (Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0).
So far, I've only upgraded on Windows. I haven't been that jazzed by […]

On my Windows work station, I use Thunderbird to manage my news feeds. On my Mac, I only use web mail, so I don't have Thunderbird installed. Thus, I recently set out in search of the perfect freeware news reader for Mac.
I first tried the obvious, NetNewsWire Lite. Apparently, even the feature set of […]

I just sat in on one of php|architect's php|symphony live talks, Design Patterns in PHP with Jason E. Sweat. Aside from the occassional sound problems, the online system worked quite well, enabling open communication between speaker and attendees. Jason's presentation was the same one he did at php|tropics last year, but since I wasn't at […]

Lately, I've been eager to escape the confines of using text editors for PHP development (apologies to TextPad and BBEdit). Macromedia Studio MX doesn't dazzle me for PHP scripting, but I'm curious about how the new Studio 8 shapes up. In the meantime, it's off to the races to find a good PHP IDE, preferably […]

We have Writely and Writeboard. Great! Online collaborative word processing is covered by these RIAs. What about spreadsheets? Enter Num Sum, "FREE bite-sized web spreadsheets for sharing." I like where these rich apps are headed.

Prolific author, trainer, consultant, founding principal of the PHP Security Consortium, PEAR package maintainer, and Germany's first ZCE, Christian Wenz [take breath now] has released his latest book, the PHP Phrasebook. According to the back cover, the book "is jam-packed with useful and essential PHP code 'phrases' for the PHP developer's everyday use. The code […]