stuff on web development

ie7 released

Thursday, 19 October 2006 6:33 pm by noel
posted in internet, software, web development

well, after a long while microsoft finally released internet explorer 7. it’s a short download and install but it does ask you to validate windows before installing anything. after a couple of reboots, ie7 is installed in the computer.

so off i go to the acid2 test and here’s what i get.

i did a comparison before [...]

php include in yahoo

Thursday, 5 October 2006 4:41 pm by noel
posted in internet, site, web development

this tip applies to those who what to use php in their yahoo webhosting package.
you can put the php include files in the root subdirectory (.) which would makes things a bit messy in the long run. to keep things organized create an subdirectory named “include” from the root directory. this is where your included [...]

php pains

Tuesday, 12 September 2006 9:35 am by noel
posted in software, web development

php is giving me a little headache. especially with functions and passing variables between pages. can’t be helped. have to read it again. and again. and again…

more widgets

Wednesday, 6 September 2006 1:32 am by noel
posted in software, web development, wordpress

i needed to put some php into the sidebar of one of the blog-turned-into-news site (using wordpress) i am managing parttime. i was already using widgets in that site so editing the sidebar.php will not work. the solution is another widget.
and i found several gems in media projekt — a media company based in germany. [...]

new face

Wednesday, 30 August 2006 9:23 am by noel
posted in eclipse, software, web development

i’ve decided to change the home page of the domain. nothing fancy. just a static page with links to the major subdirectories, blogs, etc.
and i’m going to create it using eclipse. the 3.2 final came out july 2006 and the platform should be stable. this’ll definitely (hopefully) force me to learn how to use the [...]