“If anything about current interaction design can be called ‘glamorous,’ it’s creating Web applications. After all, when was the last time you heard someone rave about the interaction design of a product that wasn’t on the Web? (Okay, besides the iPod.) All the cool, innovative new projects are online.”

“A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long, and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such as PHP or Perl.”

“Ever wonder what it takes to crash PHP, well here is a quick guide. Technically speaking PHP being a high level language should not crash, but reality speaks for itself. By knowing what could make PHP crash it may be possible to implement various safety mechanisms in your PHP configuration that would prevent users from crashing your PHP.”

“I first considered calling this ‘PHP for the aesthetically inclined,’ but that sounded pretentious and Iíve always been fond of using the term ‘designer’ in a more universal sense. I have a grand romantic notion of a ‘designer’ being not just the person who insists you canít use Comic Sans as the base font for the company Web page, but a consummate perfectionist who approaches every task with a careful eye for structure, form, and function.”

“Perl’s extremely flexible syntax makes it easy to write clumsy code, simply because you don’t know it any better. This document describes some very basic practices I consider necessary to write serious Perl.”

“jslint is a JavaScript program that looks for problems in JavaScript programs… JavaScript is a young language. It was originally intended to do small tasks in webpages, tasks for which Java was too heavy and clumsy. But JavaScript is a very capable language, and it is now being used in larger projects. Many of the features that were intended to make the language easy to use are troublesome for larger projects.”

“This is a collection of scripts that I’ve created and/or modified. All the scripts are released under a Creative Commons License. Do whatever you want with them — use them as is or modify them to suit your purposes. Both personal and commercial usage is ok by me. Unless otherwise noted, all scripts degrade gracefully in older browsers that don’t support the functionality the script provides (ie. no error messages are triggered) and, with the obvious exception of the Browser Detect script, all use object detection instead of browser detection (which ensures a broad range of browsers will run these scripts including future browsers).”

“When theyíre navigating through a long document, users often are confused or disoriented when they click a link that jumps to another location in that same document. Are they on the same page, or a different page? Should they scroll more from here? What’s going on? The answer to this problem is to scroll the user through the document to the linked location…”

“Active PHP Bookmarks (APB) is a web-based program that allows you to store your bookmarks and display them in many useful ways. It will sort your bookmarks with usability in mind, keeping often-used bookmarks at your fingertips. It has a bookmark search, private/public bookmarks, nested groups, usage rankings, popularity sorting, and a quick add feature.”

“If you have more than a little to do with PHP, the Internet’s most popular server side programming language, you’ll no doubt be aware that the successor to the current PHP version 4 is waiting in the wings… For some, PHP5 is the ‘holy grail’ that will deliver essential features they’ve been struggling to survive without.”

“If you’ve been coming by the Web DevCenter over the last month and a half, you’ve probably read the recipes we’ve excerpted from Danny Goodman’s book JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook. This week Danny is back with a bonus recipe on reducing image rollover downloads that you won’t find in his book. Enjoy.”

“Running a high-performance dynamic website is a daunting task. The short development cycles needed to stay ahead of the competition demand a web-centric scripting language that is easy to maintain and update. We’ll explore a case study of one company (Yahoo!) that is making the transition to PHP from a proprietary server-side page language written in C/C++.”

“The ’scriptygoddess’ name is kind of a joke. We don’t claim to be goddesses or know everything there is to know about scripts and stuff. This blog is simply a place where we can learn from each other.”

“It seems there’s not a week that goes by that someone isn’t asking about how to properly execute some JavaScript from a link. Unfortunately, they’re not usually driven to bring their problem to others for help because they’re trying to make their site as usable and accessible as possible.”

“A WikiWikiWeb is a web site where anyone can edit the pages through an HTML form. Linking is done automatically on the server side; all pages are stored in a database. This may sound rather simplistic, but a Wiki is a very unique way to collaborate on the Web… The addictive quality of a Wiki is that making pages is as simple as making a link to them. If they don’t yet exist, the page link will be followed by a hyperlinked question mark; follow that link and you can define the new page. With this setup, you can update and create pages from anywhere there is a web browser handy.”