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If you are a Python developer and don’t like JS a lot then look at Pyjamas desktop it will run on Web as well as desktop applications. It’s based on google webkit, pyjamas is a cross-browser web application development API. it looks like a desktop API, but underneath, pyjamas is an AJAX library and a comprehensive widget set (implemented as AJAX but you never go anywhere near JavaScript, because at the core of pyjamas is a python-to-javascript compiler).

Avoid cross-browser javascript when you can use css to make tooltips with less code.

A client recently asked me if it was possible to have a page footer which would stick to the bottom of the browser window if the content didn’t fill the window, but behave normally (i.e. be pushed down by the content) when the content was tall enough.

f I could, I’d give you a special present this christmas - I’d tell you how to make IE on Windows behave like a grown-up browser. Sadly, reality sucks - as does IE on Windows - so I can only offer to share with you a couple of CSS tips to ease the pain of working with that piece of crappy software.

Delphi for PHP is a visual IDE for developing applications in PHP. It is based on the same codebase as Delphi, and it implements a library of objects in PHP based on Delphi’s Visual Component Library (VCL). This will make working in Delphi for PHP a familiar experience to current or past Delphi or C++ Builder users.

What’s the best browser? That’s a question I get asked all the time. For years now I’ve been pretty non-committal when it came to taking sides in the browser wars - after all, a browser is a browser and it’s what’s displayed in the browser window that matters, not the browser itself.

Progress always comes at a cost. In the case of web browsers, users bear the cost when developers take the rendering of certain authoring tools and browsers (especially Internet Explorer) as gospel. When a new version of that browser comes along and fixes bugs or misinterpretations of the spec (or introduces new ones) or in any way changes behavior, sites break and our clients, bosses, and users get very unhappy.

Heard of Google? or Yahoo!? ... of course you have. Also you know exactly what they do. But why should you just let Google or Yahoo or other search engines take all the glory. Why not try yourself and make your own Search Engine in PHP and MySQL. Ok, you won't beat Google.. but you can have a really good try.

Google released another great webmasters tool and even better, they let us in on a little secret about Google Sitemaps Submission (XML Sitemaps) and how Google gives special attention to websites that submit sitemaps to Google.