Andres at Web 2.0 Technologies has a very informative post about how to use object oriented techniques to implement a robust event broadcasting and listening in javascript. Follow his advise an dmake your code more reusable. What do you want to invoke when the checkbox object changes state? If you’re programming it in a non-reusable […]
ACM today released a survey of IT/software development projects to identify the most common causes of failure and developed a tool to assess what the risk of failure for a given project is. As part of a multiyear research program on software project risk, we asked MIS directors in 60 organizations to make 720 separate
Doc Searls has a good summary about Viacomm and Dish Network settling their recent spat over carrying Viacomm’s bundle of channels. Unfortunately, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Why not? I think it’s because nobody who makes most of their money on advertising wants to see consumers become customers. Viacom, for example, is
Two and a half years ago, when I first dove into web development, I wasn’t very familiar with regular expressions. They certainly didn’t look regular to me, looked more like someone’s keyboard exploded. Now, having figured out a thing or two about them, I came across the following lines: $pos = strpos ( $this->user->privs, ‘del’);
However, MS conveniently limits the scope of PHP to the single PHP download and not to the overall PHP community. The overall point I got from the MS arguments is ASP.NET: we give you more in the base distribution. Whereas for PHP you’d have to know where to look for good 3rd party classes and