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October 2004

XSLT vs XForms

Don wrote: > > Nick > > I’ve been searching around like a dog after a lost bone for something to help explain to me the difference between XSLT and XForms. Why do both exist, and why would someone use one over the other. I have come up fairly dry on this topic, so I [...]

How to write an effective tutorial — the presentation

I’m just to blasted tired to elaborate at the moment, so if you don’t already know that I’ve written more tutorials for IBM than … well … just about anybody — I think Doug Tidwell has edged me out, but that’s about it — you’ll just have to take my word for it. This weekend [...]

Alexa Web Services

And another one I mentioned at InformIT.com: Not to be outdone, I guess, Amazon has just announced the release of Alexa Web Services. Alexa, as you may or may not know, is a service that crawls the web and collects information such as how popular a site is. (It’s also the place to find the [...]

Bloglines Web Services

As I commented over at InformIT.com: Ooooo, I’m excited about this one. Bloglines is a server-based RSS aggregator. In other words, you sign up for an account, and then you can “subscribe” to various feeds and see them all in one place, right there on the Bloglines site. Now they’ve released an API that lets [...]

Programming tip: PHP objects as values

OK, here’s something that’s been holding me up for a little while. When you create an object in PHP and set it as a member of a second class, PHP actually creates a copy, rather than passing a reference to the original object. Any changes that you make to the original or to the copy [...]