web development

Google has just started testing a new service to inform webmasters that their CMS is vulnerable to security exploits.

If you are using NuSOAP to make SOAP calls from PHP, make sure you're caching your WSDL files using the wsdlcache class.

Internet Explorer just keeps amazing me (in a bad way). The latest surprise is an animated GIF that does not work.

Microsoft has changed its mind : Standards mode will be the default rendering mode of Internet Explorer 8.

Jakob Nielsen wrote an interesting article that explains some of the most common mistakes made when designing an application's user interface.

Out of the box, Drupal's contact module provides a site-wide contact form. The default form allows some basic customization but if you want to include more advanced HTML (for example a Google map to indicate a location) you'll have to do a little bit more.

Yesterday I was venting my frustrations about the suckiness of Internet Explorer 6. Today the blogosphere is buzzing about Microsoft's plan to introduce a completely new rendering engine in IE8 with a couple of tricks to support both the latest web standards and backwards compatibility.

After - once more - wasting too much time trying to get some CSS to work in Internet Explorer 6, I'm looking forward to February 12th when Microsoft will be pushing Internet Explorer 7 onto corporate desktops. Not a day too soon.

I have been a user of Remember The Milk (an online to-do list) and Gmail (Google's online email service) for quite some time now. Earlier this week RTM released a Firefox plug-in which integrates your to-do list right into Gmail.