So I occasionally visit the Surfin Safari blog, which is the Webkit developers blog (which is the nightly build version of the Apple Safari browser). The past few months, they have been making huge strides in pushing this browser forward. No doubt the iPhone which is powered by a flavor of Safari has been the motivation behind it.

Just a quick tip for what seems to be a common problem. It looks like the issue is a simple memory limit requirement. link to original tip

What I did to get things working:

1. Installed fresh copy of MAMP
2. Grabbed fresh copy of Drupal
3. Moved it to the right folder, usually /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/

If you've delved into the world of dynamic web development, you know that whole Web 2.0 thing... you've probably encountered the fact that you have to learn how to run a local web server complete with PHP and a MySQL server on your local machine to test with. If you're on the Mac, you might have seen that OS X luckily comes with a basic installation of Apache and that using Marc Liyanage's great PHP installer package can get you up and running rather painlessly.

The first beta version of Drupal 6.0 has been released! Drupal is an extremely powerful, flexible, and moderately easy to use content management system for developing websites and web applications.

Version 6 offers a slew of new features including:

• A slicker installer
• Improved language support (as in languages people speak, not computer languages!)
• OpenID support
• Actions and triggers

Firefox, the increasingly popular open source, cross platform, web browser we all know and love has steadily gaining traction. I was shocked today when I checked the site traffic for theartlab.net, a website I maintain. It is now 74.5% Firefox users and a pretty even split at around 8% for Safari and IE users, and the rest were a hodgepodge of mobile browsers and flavors of Opera.

Last night I attended the Drupal Atlanta user-group meeting, and found it to be a fantastic. enriching experience as someone who uses Drupal both professionally and as a hobby.

Due to the nature of the software, being free, and open source, it tends to have a steep learning curve, and what I learned about it previously was from the wealth of online documentation, forums and video tutorials in addition to the handful of books that have been published.

Lynda.com, one of the most useful software video training resources on the net, have added a course on building a content management system with PHP and MySQL. While there are a ton of great online resources available to learn how to use these technologies to interact with each other, I haven't come across a complete guide on how to create a CMS from scratch, aimed at those with only html experience.

With the recent explosion of mobile devices on the web, and the way people consume content on websites, it's become increasingly more important to have pages written in valid xhtml, with a clear separation of content and design (css). The trick for designers is to create a page that displays well both on the screen, in different browsers, on mobile devices, and in print as well. Additionally, so long as the structure is written well without unnecessary div wrappers or *gasp* tables, a well coded page will display just fine on a text only browser.

I'm helping someone pick up CSS, and they asked for a book to help them out with it. So based on a few recommendations, I suggested CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland. I decided to pickup a copy myself, and brush up on my CSS, and the 100 pages of hands on tutorials is what specifically appealed to me. I'm 40 pages in, and have to say this is the CSS to english translation I wish I had when I started getting into this stuff.