Archive for October, 2004
Wed, 27 Oct 2004 9:40 UTC
I have one word for these cry-babies:
STANDARDS!
If they would bother to write good, standardized HTML instead of Microsoft hacks, then they wouldn’t have cross-browser, compatibility issues—with the rest of the browsers, that is. They may still need to implement hacks to solve IE’s problems, and that’s exactly where the problem lies: with IE.
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Tags: browsers, standards, w3c
Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:22 UTC
I’ve scheduled my Zend PHP Certification exam appointment at a local testing center for Friday, October 29 at 2:00 PM.
Wish me luck and whatever else I’ll need to pass. 
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Tags: certification, php, zce, zend
Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:57 UTC
Ten years ago, Netscape launched their Navigator Web browser. c|net is celebrating with special coverage.
I remember my first Web browser, back in 1995, was the Internet Chameleon, which apparently many early ISPs(Internet Service Providers) distributed to their customers. Chameleon supported standard HTML (back in the day when it was an infantile 2.0 that, for the record, I did use to create Web pages); however, it did not support colors or the FONT tag, so for a while I didn’t know that pages could have any background color other than the default gray. Soon, though, I found Netscape Navigator 2.0 and began using a nice, colorful and easy-to-use browser.
So, I’m a Netscape user of eight years, now—or, I should say, I’m a Firefox user. In 2003, Time Warner helped launch the Mozilla Foundation, which continues the development of the browser engine.
I always find it interesting to find old press releases and early Web pages on the Web. It’s sort of fun because I can say, “I remember when the page looked like that,” or, “I remember when that came out.” In keeping with this sense of nostalgia, take a look at the original Netscape Navigator press release from October 1994, and take a glipse through the eyes of the Wayback Machine at the Netscape Web site as it appeared in 1996 (the earliest version available).
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Tags: firefox, mozilla, netscape
Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:52 UTC
So, I’ve won the race, and I’ve confimed it with Chris Shiflett! Woo hoo!
In all seriousness, it took me only an hour and a half to solve. I had never really cared to put any time into it, so I had only given it cursory glances. However, when I noticed that Zend had fronted a prize for it, I decided on a whim to try a sweet tactic, which proved, in the end, to greatly aid in crossing the finish line first.
What was that tactic? you may ask. Well, if I told you, there wouldn’t be anymore challenge, would there? Nope. I have sworn myself to secrecy until Chris decides to publish the answer.
Until then, will you come in second?
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Tags: the-race, zend
Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:55 UTC
I just stumbled across this today when doing a search on “Atlanta PHP.” Apparently, there’s a Meetup group in Atlanta for PHP, and they had a meeting tonight.
Anyone know who heads this up? I find it odd that, in the all these months of dealing with people in the “worldwide” PHP community, no one from this other Atlanta-based group has once contacted me. This proves just how disjointed the PHP community is and why there is a need for things like PHPCommunity.org and “PHP Mongers.”
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Tags: atlantaphp, meetup, php, php-community, php-mongers
Thu, 7 Oct 2004 9:57 UTC
Today, Atlanta PHP softly announces their “soft launch.” That is, this is a launch without all the bells and whistles and media attention generated from the distribution of press releases. There will be a time for that. For now, we wish to direct the attention of prospective members and interested parties to our mailing lists, which are now live, active, and ready for subscriptions.
From the Atlanta PHP Web site, the lists currently offered are:
- talk—Talk about anything PHP or LAMP related. General Discussion.
- org—Talk about the vision, direction and development of the community.
- announce—Events, dates and meetings you can’t afford to miss! If you want to be a member of Atlanta PHP you must, at least, subscribe to announce.
