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Friday, 28 July 2006
One of our most popular articles is my rant on the Westpac crippled feedback page which attempted to explain that the banking giant not only had a poor grasp of web standards and design, but was also very difficult to communicate with.
Well, guess what?
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Tuesday, 25 July 2006
PHPXref is a handy developer tool, written by Gareth Watts, which cross-references the source code in PHP projects and creates readable HTML documentation which can be viewed with any web browser. The main features of PHPXref are:
- No web server required to view output.
- Cross-references PHP classes, functions, variables, constants and require/include usage.
- Javascript search and instant lookup of classes, functions, constants and tables.
- Pretty output of PHP source files.
PHPXref requires Perl V5.6 or later to run and is available in Linux and Windows flavours. The Windows edition even includes the required Perl libraries, so installation is a cinch.
Friday, 21 July 2006
Do you know of anyone who actually reads the license agreement when they install a piece of software?
Me either.
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Tuesday, 18 July 2006
In an earlier post I talked about the usefulness of the Linux "find" command to delete old files. Another, perhaps less common, use is to delete files with “bad characters” in the name. For instance, the famous "tar" archiver allows you to exclude certain files by specifying the "--exclude=filename" option.
This works nicely unless you happen to misspell the word “exclude”, which I did the other day. So, instead of having a fresh archive which consisted of exactly the files I wanted, I wound up with an archive which also included the files I didn’t want and with a name I didn’t expect.
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Friday, 14 July 2006
Everyone who’s used the web has at some point encountered spyware attacks, online scams and spamming sites which earn their profits by taking advantage of user ignorance. While Ad-Aware and Spybot S & D are two must-have tools that no Windows user should be without, there’s an excellent and free browser plugin from McAfee which warns you before you interact with any of the millions of dangerous websites out there.
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