Author: Vince Kimball

Building an Extensible Menu Class. Now, you may not know this, but my favourite language and yours, PHP, comes with some pretty powerful OOP capabilities. And over the course of this article, I'm going to demonstrate some of them by building an object to address a very common task – generating a menu tree on… Continue reading Building an Extensible Menu Class

Microsoft Stalls for More Time: It will come as a huge surprise that Microsoft wants the U.S. appeals court to wait before sending the case back to the district court for hearings on remedies for its monopolistic practices. Nor will anyone be amazed by the gall evident in this legal filing. “If the Supreme Court… Continue reading Microsoft Stalls for More Time:

Jogger is a Jabber-powered weblog system. [Scripting News]

WSJ: “A few dot-coms are actually making money.” [Scripting News]

First Rule of Usability: Don't Listen to Users. Jakob Nielsen's latest Alertbox column hits the nail on the head (again). “Say, for example, that 50% of survey respondents claim they would buy more from e-commerce sites that offer 3D product views. Does this mean you should rush to implement 3D on your site? No. It… Continue reading First Rule of Usability: Don't Listen to Users

Web Standards Project: “All we've asked Macromedia to do is ship Dreamweaver with the ability to create standards-compliant pages. It can't be that difficult; as you've seen, the technology is already there.”

Mark Pilgrim: “Groove is an overkill solution in search of a problem.”

Firewalls We need a new firewall / NAT / VPN box for the office. If you know about these and could recommend one, please email me. [Update: thanks to everyone who wrote in. I think we're going with the SonicWall XPRS2!] [Joel on Software]

MIT Technology Review: Reworking Online Work. Q&A with Ray Ozzie. From a personal perspective, our goal has been to create an environment that securely brings together the right people, the relevant information, the appropriate tools to manipulate that information, at the right time–whether spontaneously or over a long period of time. [Tomalak's Realm]

PgMarket 1.5.2 (Development). An e-commerce solution based on PHP4 and PostgreSQL or MySQL. [freshmeat.net]