Monthly Archives: January 2008

Flying off the shelves

A week ago, I wrote about the blip in supplies of The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP. My publisher (friends of ED) got onto the case immediately, and told me that 388 copies of the … Continue reading

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Availability of Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3

For the past couple of weeks, the availability of The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP has been listed on Amazon.com as “usually ships within 1 to 3 weeks”. Very often, particularly with a recently published … Continue reading

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Forgot to heed my own advice

One of the features I stressed in PHP Solutions was the need to write secure code. On page 378, I said it was essential to display error messages in a development environment so that you can debug your code. However, … Continue reading

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Spry 1.6 breaks examples in Essential Guide to DW CS3

A question in the friends of ED forum from a reader of The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP has alerted me to a change in the way Spry 1.6 handles HTML tags in CDATA sections … Continue reading

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PHP 4′s last gasp

PHP 4.4.8 was released today (3 January 2008)—three days after PHP 4 officially reached the end of its support life. For some strange reason, PHP releases are always made on a Thursday, so the release was delayed until today to … Continue reading

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