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Technology

Movin’ on up to PHP5

Recovered from Wayback Machine. The PHP group has announced end of support for PHP4 and encouraging everyone to move on up to PHP5. WordPress Matt isn’t happy with PHP5 and believes such a move should happen when PHP6 goes beta. I think the point really is that the PHP group can’t move forward on PHP6, […]

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Technology

Hello iPhone

Amidst all the hype surrounding iPhone, one thing is very clear: the iPhone will have some impact on web site development. At least, for those sites wanting to attract a well-to-do, gadget focused community. Or I should say, among those who are well-to-do, gadget focused, and who don’t have long fingernails. The iPhoney emulator provides a means to test your […]

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HTML5 XHTML/HTML

Marathon 2.0

I must admit to being confused about Molly Holzschlag’s recent posts, including the latest. Today she writes, in clarification of her post where she calls for a moratorium on new standards work: Perhaps there is a better solution than pausing standards development. If so, I’d like to know what you think it might be. One thing […]

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Diversity Technology

Where are the jobs? Where are the opportunities?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. As is typical for events such as these, mention is made in comments related to the “Beautiful code” book about providing a list of women–the typical “where are the women” these discussions always break down to. How many times do we have to do this? And in how many places? Are […]

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Diversity Technology

Women evidently don’t code

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If you’re an older woman in tech you’re faced with a double whammy. In the last post, we discover we’re too old to ‘hack the web’. However, we’re also not considered much of a programmer, either. Or at least, that’s what I read from the table of contents and authors for the […]