Over at Phly, boy, phly, Zend Framework coder Matthew Weier O’Phinney, talks about issues with implementation of namespacing in PHP 5.3 and the coding standards of Zend Framework

So part of my job at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is writing Admin Tools for our users to administer the sites with. There are a mix of older admin tools which don’t use any JavaScript and newer admin tools where the front end is completely based on JavaScript.

I was recently asked to build an admin tool to allow one of our users to maintain the drop down portions of the site navigation since they can change with each passing event that happens at the track.

O.K. so Firefox is an awesome browsers but it has a rather annoying feature that I’ve been trying to disable for some time now. When ever you click and hold on a link it put’s a dotted line around the link and then leaves it there after you have clicked on the link.

IE8 should make things a lot better —but it will still fall far short of the standards set by Firefox, Safari, and Opera. Some of these problems are technical, but others are cultural. Where the other browser developers are open and communicative, Microsoft is still leaving web developers in the dark.

Roughly Drafted has an interesting (and long) article that discusses Apple, Adobe, Google and Microsoft, and their different approaches to developing rich applications for the web. The article is very readable for a non-technical audience, and well-researched, too.

Over at the ExtJS.com Blog, Shea Frederick has posted on building Wii-friendly web pages using the ExtJS library.

After much a long time of nothing happening here I have decided to relaunch my blog here at bombdiggity.net with fresh content and a new look. It’s been almost two years since I last wrote anything worth while and even that was questionable.