Core values? Yeah, right.

Many companies claim as part of their “core values” that their most valuable asset are the humans who work for them. Why is it that when many of those same companies get into financial strife, the first thing that is slashed is this same “most valuable” asset?

Is it possibly because their “core values” aren’t worth the paper they’re written on because they’re really only designed to fool the customers? Or is it because the inept management of those companies exhibit a consistent inability to think long term, as evident by their spineless actions at a time when business gets a little shaky?

Why you don’t want that new web project

Zeldman offers some humourous, yet frighteningly real, signs you don’t want that new web project.

Once I had a good laugh, I realised that I’ve actually encountered #3, #7, #9, #17 and #20 on more than one occasion.

Automatic tabindex with PHP

As most of us who’ve created HTML forms know, the tabindex attribute is a nice way to force text fields, checkboxes, dropdowns and buttons to be in a predefined order, so the user can utilise the tab key to navigate between them.

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Sanitising uploaded filenames

Because of the differences in the way Linux and Windows systems handle filenames, and because users often upload files which have spaces, quotes, and other punctuation characters in the name, it’s important that you strip out these characters from the filename before saving the file on the webserver.

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Multiple versions of IE

A clever bloke by the name of Yousif Al Saif has come up with a way of having multiple versions of IE running on your windows workstation. Handy for us poor sods who still have to support what is probably the worst standards-compliant browser ever made.