XHTML 2 vs. HTML 5
6 Feb 2008 6:36pm GMT Rewind a little more than 10 years to December 18, 1997. Internet Explorer 4 had been released 3 months earlier. The Mozilla Foundation had not yet formed, and their Firefox web browser was years away from public release. There was no XMLHttpRequest… there wasn’t even XML. On that day, over a decade ago, HTML 4.0 [...]
Why is VoIP cheaper than a standard telephone line?
17 Aug 2007 11:35pm GMT Yesterday, Comcast came by to install their digital voice package at my apartment. Comcast has a special deal going on now: $24.95/month for 6 months, unlimited long distance. Skype’s even cheaper — $3/month for outgoing calls and $5/month for incoming (when they’re up). But here’s what I’m wondering: why’s it so cheap? Why is VoIP [...]
5 tools every PHP programmer should know about
16 Aug 2007 1:21am GMT After working on several large scale PHP projects, and writing a lot of PHP code, I’ve discovered a number of tools that improve code quality, streamline rollouts, and generally make life as a PHP developer a whole lot easier. Many of these tools probably deserve a post of their own. But, since some people aren’t [...]
Database Design: Choosing a Primary Key
14 Aug 2007 11:10pm GMT A good model and a proper database design form the foundation of an information system. Building the data layer is often the first critical step towards implementing a new system, and getting it right requires attention to detail and a whole lot of careful planning. A database, like any computer system, is a model of [...]
Scaling WordPress
14 Aug 2007 2:47am GMT WordPress seems to have a bad reputation when it comes to scalability. Maybe it’s deserved, since a default WordPress installation doesn’t really scale well. But making WordPress scale isn’t hard. I recently hit the Digg home page and got roughly 70,000 pageviews in under 12 hours. Another post hit the home page later the same [...]