I figure this can count as both a soccer and web item. Former MLSer Tim Howard is on the Manchester United website. Tim, an upcoming goalkeeper for the US National Team just completed his transfer to Englands best known and marketed team. Nice to see him go from one team I hate to another.
If you’re using function libraries to organize your php code, I highly recommend reading Writing Libraries in PHP on the Zend site. There are a number of very good recommendations as well as insightful discussion of the different approaches available when writing php functions. The author also recommend wrapping you libraries as functions, as I
Damage to a church in Forest, Ohio, is estimated at $20,000 after a preacher asked God for a sign.
I’ve been trying out Mozilla’s Thunderbird standalone email program at work. For two reasons: it feels faster and more responsive, to try to ween myself off of the Mozilla bundle which consumes a lot of memory. I should check out Firebird next. Anyway, one feature of Thunderbird is spell-checking, which catches a lot of
The Center for Strategic and International Studies published a report titled BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AND THE "BUFFY PARADIGM". I didn’t follow the Buffy series religiously but this is a very interesting read wherein the authors use gimmicks from the show to illustrate how a war on terror should be fought. If this is the "Buffy
If you’re tired or worred about giving out your email address when registering for a site or service, spamgourmet offers disposable email addresses that you can use.
If you’re in the USA, the FTC’s national do not call registry is open today so go sign up. Most telemarketers won’t be able to call you once your phone number(s) are listed, although you do have to re-register every five years. The restriction won’t be effective until Oct 1 of this year if you
Working well with php functions Most of the time its very tempting to open up your text editor and start writing code to scratch some itch. Smart programmers know to use functions to wrap up repetitive tasks and make life easier on themselves. The following piece is meant to give your functions a little extra
Jeffrey Zeldman is out pimping his new book, Designing with Web Standards. webreference.com has an interview with him talking about how he’s used a “Cause Campaign” to spread the word about his book. Without any advertising, the book appears to be selling really well.