Archive for October, 2005

Future web: XHTML 2

Friday, October 28th, 2005

Background

The current common recommendation is that websites be written in standards-compliant XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2 with optional Javascript 1.5 support. What’s next for the web?

The XTech conference generated a lot of buzz this past summer in the web-techie community. There were presentations on XHTML 2 and the so-called HTML 5, which are […]

Revision Control Systems

Friday, October 28th, 2005

I was going to write a nice research article on the various competing revision control systems, but then I found David Wheeler’s essay which does a better job than I ever could. Wow, that guy can write.

PAR: Packaging for Perl applications

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

What is the best way to distribute a GUI application to users?

The three main choices are via an installer, via a standalone executable or via source. These choices vary a lot across platforms. Windows prefers installers, especially .msi files. Macs are quite happy with .app files, which are usually shipped on disk […]