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Sunsetting IE6 on your own

Posted by Chris Renner on September 28, 2010

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ShareAnyone that does front end web development or web design hates Internet Explorer 6.  Why?  First released in 2001, IE6 is dog slow, very buggy, and essentially completely non-standards compliant.
These issues manifest themselves in two primary categories as best I can tell:  javaScript bugs/behaviors, and layout/CSS behaviors or missing features.
So, developers learn to code around [...]

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Learning PHP

Posted by Chris Renner on September 13, 2010

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ShareIts quite possible you found this blog while googling around for information on PHP.  If that’s true, and you’re a newbie trying to learn PHP, I’d like to direct you over to a new post on Six Revisions entitled Learn PHP: Get Started Using PHP by Elias Zerrouq. After a brief history of the language, [...]

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Coming Up: My First ZendCon

Posted by Chris Renner on September 9, 2010

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ShareThanks to a slight relaxation in departmental travel/education funds, I get to go to a conference this fiscal year.  I chose ZendCon, and I’m pretty excited about it.
Unless I find other folks from my institution that are also going, I’ll be “flying solo”…an introvert at a geek conference…should be interesting.
Anyway, I’ll try to resist my [...]

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