http://www.nickawilliams.com For everything Nick! Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:05:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en var dzone_url = '[url]'; var dzone_title = '[title]'; var dzone_blurb = '[description]'; var dzone_style = '1'; I recently submitted a comment to the FCC regarding their upcoming actions on net neutrality. Just thought I'd share what I wrote. Would love to hear thoughts/opinions/comments if you have any! Am I wrong? Did I forget something? ... http://www.nickawilliams.com/2010/01/06/the-fcc-and-net-neutrality/ It is an unfortunate fact of internet life that not all browsers are made equal. Pages viewed in Firefox may look completely different in Internet Explorer or Safari. Most developers consider this a very frustrating part of the development process, and often wish there was an easier way to test ... http://www.nickawilliams.com/2009/11/04/adobes-browserlab-goes-live/ "With the advent of PHP 5.0 came a new collection of built in classes and interfaces known as the Standard PHP Library (SPL). The goal of this library is to "solve standard problems and implements some efficient data access interfaces and classes." What gives this library an edge over other ... http://www.nickawilliams.com/2009/04/27/exploring-spl-part-i/ I just want to give a quick shout out for a pet project of mine that has launched today, called Bedrock Framework. It's a new PHP framework that came from code that I've been using for personal projects over the years. I finally decided to package it up and release ... http://www.nickawilliams.com/2009/04/01/bedrock-framework-launched/ Today marks the first day Stack Overflow opens its doors to the public. In case you're not in the know, Stack Overflow is essentially a Q&A site geared towards developers of all kinds. It takes a language/technology agnostic approach and simply provides a framework within which the community can ask ... http://www.nickawilliams.com/2008/09/15/stack-overflow-liftoff/ Today I discovered a very powerful addition to the PHP world. Phar is an archive extension for PHP that allows an entire PHP application to be packaged into a single file. It's basically PHP's answer to Java's .jar archive format. Don't get excited yet, it gets better . . . There ... http://www.nickawilliams.com/2008/09/04/the-new-phar-php-package/ As mobile access to the web increases, it is becoming more and more important to ensure sites are usable on mobile devices. iPhoney attempts to address the iPhone camp with a desktop application that renders web pages within a virtual iPhone. After playing around with the app, it is certainly not ... http://www.nickawilliams.com/2008/08/25/iphoney-a-handy-pair-of-iphone-goggles/ Having recently discovered the plethora of coding fonts available online, it occurred to me that quite a bit of thought has been put into something I have always seen as rather trivial. The more I read about it, the more I have come to realize that using a font specifically ... http://www.nickawilliams.com/2008/07/10/coding-fonts/ That's right, you heard me! It's all thanks to a fantastic project called Phalanger, which adds a super-fast execution environment for a very large portion of the PHP scripting language. Certainly this was only a matter of time, combining one of the most popular open-source languages of the web with ... http://www.nickawilliams.com/2008/06/16/write-net-applications-in-php/ During my morning blog-scan I came across four videos that really set my day off on the right foot. And that song! Oh that song! As much as I can't stand it, I'll be humming it all afternoon today. If you're familiar with the MVC model, then these videos were ... http://www.nickawilliams.com/2008/06/05/m-is-for-model-v-is-for-view/