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Saturday, 22 June 2002 |
In April 2002, Netcraft’s monthly Web server survey revealed that 24 percent, or around 9 million of the 37 million sites it surveyed, were using Personal Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) for a server side scripting language. For the first time, an Open Source scripting solution had passed Microsoft’s proprietary Active Server Pages scripting to claim the top spot on the Netcraft survey.
Incidentally, the New Order Online website below is an ASP site. So many ASP sites I visit seem to go down often, or otherwise fail with an inordinate frequency.
8:48:53 PM 
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I have not worked out precisely what the guy who runs the otherwise very good New Order Online website does to his HTML, but it runs very badly in standards-compliant web browsers like Opera. And I just tried accessing it in Internet Explorer 5.1.4 for Mac, and it exploded.
The website has posted three new live recordings from the band’s recent Paris gig—Brutal, Digital and She’s Lost Control.
8:34:50 PM
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I have The 2002 World Music Awards playing on the TV in the background. Kylie Minogue just came on, and sang a song with the words “can’t get you out of my head” in the lyrics.
But, she sang it to the music of New Order’s Blue Monday, and added the sentence “How does it feel?” to her own lyrics. What the…? This is perverse.
8:12:23 PM
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For anyone doing project work with other people in the same office or remotely, Six Degrees looks terrific.
Currently it is in prerelease stage, but there is a 30-day evaluation version available.
7:31:03 PM
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Time is not.
7:27:54 PM
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Out of the blue I remembered a guy I had met several years before in Perth, whose job then was sales and marketing. I still had his email address, so I emailed him.
It turns out he is now doing WebObjects programming. Way to go! Just in case you do not know what WebObjects is, here is a quote from his reply.
Essentially now WebObjects is just another Java Application Server, although it allows you to deploy on Windows, MacOS X, any Unix/Linux with a decent Java VM. The other big thing, is that development time is extremely short—usually a quarter of the time it takes to develop in J2EE or other enterprise level app servers.
Shorter equals much more affordable. WebObjects has hitherto been a high-end solution used by huge online retailers. More affordable means it can be used for more and smaller projects than before.
7:12:07 PM
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© Copyright 2002 Karl-Peter Gottschalk.
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