Tuesday, March 11, 2003

A List Apart: A Web Designer's Journey - Excellent article on developing CSS to replace hacked up tables for layouts.  A must read.  NB: this link is to the last (and best) page of the article, but the whole thing is worth reading. Thanks to Ben Chapman for reminding me about this article. 3:07:23 PM

Fusebox 3 start-up tutorial - What is Fusebox 3? Fusebox is a popular method for designing and developing web applications - originally only for ColdFusion, but it has been extended to cover web applications written for PHP, J2EE and ASP. Fusebox 3, released in late 2001, is a major enhancement including: Core code which does a lot of the work for you. Much easier management of large applications with several directory levels. Support for PHP, J2EE and ASP as well as ColdFusion. Centralised layout templates - not quite a content management system, but much more powerful than CSS. - Benefit From IT Good intro tutorial, some links are a bit dated. 2:34:11 PM

oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: PHP Cookbook - The PHP Cookbook is a collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for PHP programmers. The book contains a unique and extensive collection of best practices for everyday PHP programming dilemmas. It contains over 250 recipes, ranging from simple tasks to entire programs that demonstrate complex tasks, such as printing HTML tables and generating bar charts -- a treasure trove of useful code for PHP programmers, from novices to advanced practitioners. 1:52:25 PM

Slashdot | PHP4 Web Development Solutions PHP4 Web Development Solutions Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 11, @11:30AM "honestpuck writes "Wrox Press seem to have become masters at putting together volumes from a large number of authors. This 600-page volume is another example. This way of working does have some drawbacks, there is a little repetition of some basic stuff throughout the book, but not enough to truly detract from it." Read on for the complete version of honestpuck's review. 1:48:47 PM