I just read Bruce Perens' Forecasts for 2006 via PHPDeveloper.org. This one's sure to rock the PHP boat… Perens predicts trouble for PHP, rooted in its security problems and the lack of software development skills on the part of many developers. An example he used is that alot of PHP programmers don't utilize design patterns. […]

On plain vanilla .htm websites, I typically use server side includes (SSI) to insert repeated elements like navigation and footers. After dropping the include code on the page, normally all I need to do is create a .htaccess file containing:
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html html htm

I just moved a site from one server to another (same hosting […]

I needed to set up a cron job yesterday for a client site, but the shared hosting account didn't provide access to cron. What to do? Use WebCron.org! This is a free service that allows you to set up cron jobs in your WebCron.org control panel. No cron syntax needed, just an URL and some […]