Signified files complaint - an open letter to the Web community
Posted by Robert Love on December 14, 2007 in Articles, HTML, XHTML, Web Standards
Yesterday, Håkon Wium Lie, Chief Technology Officer for Opera Software released his open letter to the Web community in which he states:
Today we have taken a stand. Opera has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission to force Microsoft to support open Web standards in its Web browser, Internet Explorer. We believe that Microsoft […]
A Poem Element for HTML5
Posted by Robert Love on October 8, 2007 in HTML, XHTML
A recent post to the HTML WG list by Dr Olaf Hoffmann entitled ‘HTML 5′ and some poem markup? has got me (and some WG members) all in a huff. Is there hope for the poem online? It appears not. So all you budding web poets better stick to the plain old prose from here on in.
How to Become a Web Developer and Make Lots of Money
Posted by Robert Love on August 1, 2007 in Articles, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript
Over the recent days I’ve been asked to speak with a few new starters where I work. As budding (and not-so-budding) web developers, they’re eager to latch onto the next big thing and blog about it in order to appear cool (oops!). So, in order to stop repeating myself and free up more time for shameless self-promotion, read on if you want to become a web developer and make lots of money.
Running Multiple Websites on Apache
Posted by Robert Love on July 1, 2007 in Apache
You’ve been creating websites on your Apache installation on Windows - making a sub-directory for each site you want to design/develop. But wouldn’t it be good if you could run multiple websites on a single Apache installation - changing http://localhost/mynewsite1/, http://localhost/mynewsite2/, etc. to http://mynewsite1/, http://mynewsite2/, etc. Well you can! - with Apache Virtual Hosts. This article will show you how to run as many websites (or Virtual Hosts) as you like on your Apache installation on Windows by making a few simple additions to your Apache configuration file and your Windows hosts file.
Installing Apache, MySQL and PHP on Windows
Posted by Robert Love on June 1, 2007 in Apache, MySQL, PHP
This is it! The definitive guide to installing and configuring Apache 2.2.4, MySQL 5.0.27 and PHP 5.2.1 on Microsoft Windows XP (SP2) with support for both MySQL and MySQLi PHP extensions. And, yes, if you follow these instructions to the letter, the software will actually work!