Design Ontap

A number of requirements for a recent project using our CMS Site Foundry had us learning a few new things about XSLT and XML, as well as observing the arguments for and against Disable Output Escaping.

Subversion is a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community.

It allows developers to make changes to files, and 'Commit' them, in a way that many people can work on the same bits of code without overwriting each others changes and having them lost forever. This tutorial will help you set up the development environment of your dreams!

Every time I've seen someone put something (in this case a CSS drop down menu over flash) it's filled me with no small sense of awe. In the past I've quickly tried to do it in using z-index - it's worked great in Firefox or Safari but never in IE. I stupidly rushed to the conclusion that it's just an IE quirk and there'd be an ugly javascript work around.

At Design Ontap over the last 6 months we've been updating our systems, workflow, software and hardware. Last Thursday the day finally arrived that I could ditch my old iLamp, being last in-line for a new computer, and embrace a new Intel MacBook Pro.

At the heart of every dynamic website is some form of data source, whether it's a simple flat text file, XML schema, or full blown database. In this article, I'll be addressing database table joins with SQL (specifically MySQL).