This picture tells it all.

Orginal here

You would think that in five years you would archived something but that is not true. Well, at least when I look a page I made 5 years ago in agony for Vignette. Nowadays I am still working with buggy software; platform and bugs have just changed.

Polls or graphs are usually images generated from desktop software or web scripts perhaps sometimes flash+xml, and when it comes to web it is too much resource consuming to generate image on the fly.
Since we don’t have CANVAS or SVG yet on wide use there is a CSS trick.
The idea of using CSS to generate Bar Graphs could be very interesting in this case, and Apples to Oranges have a pretty interesting article describing in details how to create Bar Graphs with CSS.

PC World has ranked the best products in 2005
Here are few picks

1. Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
Yep, Absolute best browser
2. Google Gmail Web Mail
First GMAIL was strange but now I can’t live without it
16. Google Search Engine
Some said Microsoft tries to be Internet but I think Google is Internet… scary…
26. Ubuntu Linux 5.04
My disto
32. Adobe Photoshop CS2
Well, not really sure if this should be on list but anyway this is my pen/paper
34. Apple ITunes
And I though I never change WinAmp to ITunes… But then came podcasting.
38. Valve Half-Life 2
Best game no doubt…
60. Wikipedia
My source of info (aside google of course)
76. Google Desktop Search
GDS is nowdays my sourcecode library with Larry’s anyfile indexer -extension this tool is great for indexing sourcecode.

The PHP5 web framework Symfony has a “advent calendar” long tutorial series running. Each day will cover building a web application using Symfony.
The symfony advent calendar is a set of 24 tutorials, published day-by-day between December 1st and Christmas. A bit behind but here is the day one see also day eight it has some AJAX stuff.

Firefox 1.5 is bring developers a simple extension to JavaScript that makes XML scripting very simple it’s called EX4 (ECMAScript for XML). E4X support is part of JavaScript 1.6, which is delivered with Firefox 1.5. IE developers might be familiar with XML support through the Microsoft MSXML2 library but E4X is much simpler and easier. » Continue reading “EX4 (ECMAScript for XML)”