October 13, 2005 – 12:53 pm
As mentioned previously here and elsewhere, Microsoft is working on Internet Explorer 7, which will have greatly improved CSS support. The IE7 team has posted an article about the demise of CSS hacks and broken pages, warning that the hacks often used to target CSS specifically to work around old IE bugs may be unnecessary under IE7 when in strict mode. [...]
Cool, IBM and Zend have announced Zend Core for IBM. Basically, it’s an officially supported version of PHP with tight integration into IBM’s DB2 and Cloudscape database servers, and some web services stuff. This is probably going to grab some new eyeballs for PHP from some IBM-based businesses who have probably never heard of it before.
If I was still working at my previous employer back in Alabama, I would be all over this. [...]
By Dougal
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Posted in Linux, News, Software, Tech
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Also tagged Apache, IBM, Perl, PHP, Programming, Ruby, Web, WebSphere, Zend
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I hadn’t been keeping too close an eye on this, because we’ve got higher priorities right now than buying new computers. But there have been rumors lately about some sort of deal between Apple and Intel. The speculations mainly fell into two camps: 1) Apple would release a new Pentium-based Macintosh computer, or 2) Intel would begin producing a new PowerPC compatible CPU.
Steve Jobs just dropped the bomb: Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006
Basically, it seems, Apple has been disappointed with IBM’s inability to deliver a G5 processor that could break the 3GHz barrier or with heat characteristics that would be usable for laptops. [...]
From Tim Bray, we learn that Open Document 1.0 has been approved as an OASIS Standard. The new format will be the standard for the OpenOffice.org office suite. This paves the way for an unprecedented level of compatibility between applications and tools dealing with a wide variety of document types.
In the interest of fairness, I’ll point out that Microsoft did document the new XML formats for Microsoft Office 11, which opens up the same sorts of capabilities. [...]
February 17, 2005 – 10:33 pm
Despite previous proclaimations that there would be no new version of Internet Explorer until their next generation operating system, codenamed “Longhorn” is released, Microsoft has recently reversed that position and announced that it will be working on Internet Explorer 7, which will be more focused on fixing security problems.
Too little, too late.
The King is dead. . [...]
September 8, 2004 – 10:29 am
A couple of days ago, Windows Update finally notified me that it was ready to install Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. Yesterday I created a Restore Point on my compter, and this morning I told my computer to install the update.
I’m glad I created that restore point.
The Service Pack install failed partway through, with some error about a missing entry point in a DLL. I couldn’t get the computer to shut down cleanly, and ended up doing a hard power down. When it rebooted, it told me that the service pack had failed (duh), and that I needed to go to the Control Panel and uninstall it. [...]
Hurray for Open Source projects. At my work, we recently underwent a major system change behind the scenes (moved our line-of-business from a mainframe to an iSeries). When we did, our web server (IIS4 under Windows NT4) started experiencing a lot of problems. Of course, I assumed that it was a problem on the other end, and just dealt with restarting the web services several times a day while we tried to narrow the problem down. But the problems kept getting worse and worse, to the point where the web service would not even stay up for two minutes at a time.
When I finally redirected requests for the main suspect applications to a static page, and the server still crashed and burned, I began to suspect a deeper problem, and I had to broaden my solution options. [...]
February 18, 2004 – 11:50 am
I am constantly surprised at the number of websites out there that don’t bother to set a background-color on their pages. Why do I care? I don’t know. But it just seems to me that it’s a detail that every web designer should attend to.
Here’s how a web site without a default background color looks to me.
You see, I like to be sure that I don’t forget to set the background color for my own sites. [...]
