An explanation of the so-called "white screen of death", something I see a bit of while logged in to Facebook, to name one example. Especially common to websites, or applications, that are PHP powered... which, hmm, includes disassociated. A web application powered by the scripting language PHP will display an empty white page in the browser under certain conditions. If the PHP installation suppresses ... Read full entry

John Gruber takes a look at some of the technical issues that the possible Microsoft Yahoo! merger could present. Engineering-wise, it's interesting. Yahoo's stuff is almost all written in PHP, and runs on FreeBSD and Red Hat Linux servers. I don't think Microsoft has ever bought - and maintained - a significant software product that wasn't written against Microsoft technology. E.g., when they bought Hotmail, the migration from FreeBSD/Apache to ... Read full entry

Web Directions North is on from 30 to 31 January 2008 in Vancouver, Canada, and Jeffrey Zeldman will deliver the opening key note speech. The WD team have also compiled an executive summary of the conference, should your boss need to be "convinced" your attendance is worthwhile! Why Accessibility? Because It's Our Job! "We should make an effort to create accessible content, because it's part ... Read full entry