Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I like Andrew Orlowski, though he offered me a writing job once and then yanked it. I don’t always agree with him, and I don’t always agree with how he phrases some of his material, but he typically has a good point. Take the recent Nine Inch Nails album release. Several […]
Year: 2008
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IE8: Standards mode by default
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Others might talk about Microsoft’s move to the clouds, but one decision MS made shows its feet are firmly planted on solid ground: IE8 will be standards mode by default. This was a good decision, but it’s also an ominous decision. Not a word on support for the XHTML mime type. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I didn’t know the ?> closing tag was optional with PHP code only files, either. I did know about white space following the end tag. Probably every PHP developer knows about the white space following the end tag problem. What header? What ******** header!? Other useful stuff on PHP best practices at […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Seth Finkelstein has one of the better takes on the Wikipdia “sex” scandal. I wouldn’t even be interested except for two things: 1. Seth and All’s Wool both mention about the deep irregularities associated with the Wikipedia Foundation’s money, including how Foundation money is finding it’s way into founder Jimmy Wales pocket. If […]
Though RealTech is a weblog, it’s also the place where I do much of my experimentation with technology. It’s the site I use to test out the plug-ins, graphics applications, and what not I’m eventually planning on using in the rest of my web sites. Normally you don’t use a ‘live’ site to test changes, […]