Programming with Pear : A Short, Basic Tutorial. Programming with Pear : A Short, Basic Tutorial If you haven't worked with the Pear database abstraction class then you really should.   Now I know that everyone says that and we often don't bother — “too hard”, “it's a pain”, etc.  It's really not.  Here's how I…

Don Gets It Right – Again Don Strickland continues to preach the ideas of common sense in technology selection. Forget the ideas of Mac zealots and PC bigots – use it because it works and because it is the right technology at the right time. In my experience, the only place that MS Exchange is…

Consultant's Checklist John has found a little gem of a checklist for consultants. I try to practice the relationship model with my clients, but it is often easy to get sucked into that “Here's what I do” question and answer session. Most companies aren't used to the “What's your problem” approach. They are used to…

Ben provides some insight into a new portal. Hmmmm. I'm in agreement about Yahoo. I tend to use my weblog as my main gateway for news, but Yahoo is still the reigning king. Maybe I'll give MyWay a shot too. MyWay. I've been frustrated with Yahoo for a long time. I use them for my…

Users of Chimera (aka Navigator) will want to chec …. Users of Chimera (aka Navigator) will want to check out this page of nifty tricks and hacks. It has instructions for enabling auto-Google, customizing contextual menus, disabling disk cache, and more. 8:16 AM | Paul Bissex [Forwarding Address: OS X]

Mail Scripts 1.3.2.  – Mail Scripts is a collection of AppleScripts for Mail and Address Book offering additional features or simplified workflow. Changes in this version include a new feature (search addresses), improvements and bug fixes. [AppleScript Info]

John, this one is dedicated to you.  🙂 [Dilbert Daily Strip]

PHP Cookbook Ch 8: Web Basics (PDF). Web programming is probably why you’re reading this book. It’s why the first version of PHP was written and what continues to make it so popular today. PHP makes it easy to write dynamic web programs that do almost anything. Other chapters cover various PHP capabilities, like graphics,…

Using Amazon Web Services With PHP And SOAP. Now, your favourite language and mine, PHP, has recently started shipping with support for XML-based remote procedure calls (including SOAP) over HTTP. This makes PHP ideal for developers looking to integrate Amazon Web Services into their Web applications. The only problem? Not too many people know how…

Neatly packaged binaries for OS X.2: * Perl 5.8.0 …. Neatly packaged binaries for OS X.2: * Perl 5.8.0* Apache 2.0.43* mod_perl 1.99_07* PHP 4.2.3* Tomcat 4.1.12* MySQL 3.23.52* PostgreSQL 7.2.2* OpenSSL Development Headers 0.9.6e* NetInfo Administration Scripts 1.0 10:26 AM | Cory Doctorow [Forwarding Address: OS X]