A quick update regarding phpdirectory.com: I have switched the source of the PHP news feed from phpdeveloper.org to phparch.com. I had been using the phpdev feed for over a year but they've been having validation issues lately. phparch.com has a good, regularly updated news feed so there shouldn't be a problem with a lack of […]

I use Google AdSense over on my baseball blog, The Baseball Files. Today I noticed something odd: while I have my ads configured for text-only, here's what I saw in my home page ad block:

Hmm, that photo sure doesn't seem baseball-related! Yet when I clicked on the graphic, I was delivered relevant ads. So Google, […]

Working on a Web 2.0 application and don't know which JavaScript library to align yourself to? Put on your reading glasses and get started with these two articles:

The JavaScript Library World Cup, from SitePoint.com
Top 10 Web Developer Libraries, from cameronolthuis.com

I've pretty much always used Google queries to evaluate backlinks. MSN and Yahoo! results were just never as helpful as Google's. The Google "link:" query has been "broken" for some time and doesn't return reliable results. Instead, I've relied on "www.mysite.com" -site:www.mysite.com, which shows you all links pointing to your site that are not on […]

I hadn't run into this one in my own work before: the IE6 Peekaboo Bug. In my case, I had a div containing text as well as 3 left floated divs with a background image, also containing text, and nested in the main content div. In IE6, the text in the main content area was […]

Three column CSS layouts can be tricky. One of my favourite approaches to resolving full height, coloured sidebars is faux columns. But what if you need fixed width sidebars with a flexible content area? There are a few approaches available (have a look at this list of three column layouts) but my favourite method […]