TW Blog :: Archives for August 2003

A Few Quick TitBits

Relates to PHP and Accessibility, Peregrinations

Been very busy the past couple of weeks, so not much time for blogging…Here's a few bits and pieces from around the web…

• Need to hone those Photoshop skills? I rediscovered some handy tricks within Janee's Photoshop Tutorials.
• The new Accessify.com Forum is well and truly active and already looks set to be the topical place for accessiblity-minded developers.
• What's it like to be without power for 29 hours…Let Zeldman tell you.
• The best Chicken pie I have had for a long time, and a picturesque setting at the Saracen's Head.
• After a quick perusal of the PEAR IT/ITX modules for templating, finally dived into Smarty to speed up some CMS based PHP development and to avoid mainifesting globular chunks of XHTML within the API.
• A good starting point for developing DOM based Client Side Table Sorting scripts.
• The main set of Chrome URLs for Mozilla and Firebird (Still using it and loving it!)
• XForms is getting ever closer to REC status, and what a difference it will make to the laborious task of developing user forms. Of course you can easily test the benefits and potential in X-Smiles Java Browser during the inevitable laborious wait for implementation in the main player…
• Symantec's ever efficient security response to that sneaky critter lurking the web. Some friends fell foul within 48 hours of Blaster's release, and we had an arduous clean up session over the phone. Of course if your infected, you probably will not be reading this, at least not beyond the page title!!! At least XP users now know they are not 100% secure, as a certain corpora$ion would make them believe!
• Oh, and in less than 10 days I will finally be able to see what happens in the last 15 minutes of the Two Towers following an unexplained shut down of the cinema last Christmas. Still scouting for the official release of the RotK Trailer…

Posted on Sunday, Aug 17, 2003 at 21:20:43.