hebig.org/blog
personal webnode of Haiko Hebig

CVS
Chora is an interesting looking CVS Viewer fully implemented in PHP. Requires the Horde Application Framework - "a general-purpose web application framework in PHP" - to be installed, which in turn requires a whole bunch of additional PHP libraries. Currently, Chora seems to be the only PHP based CVS viewer available. Meanwhile in the field of CVS desktop integration for Windows, Tortoise CVS 1.0 final is out. "With TortoiseCVS you can directly check out modules, update, commit and see differences by right clicking on files and folders within Explorer. You can see the state of a file with overlays on top of the normal icons within Explorer." This, we consider a very neat solution.

JSP
"JSPs: A Total Waste of Time? - JavaServer Pages technology was flawed from the beginning, and has evolved into something (nearly) completely useless for serious applications", Bob Balaban says in Lotus Advisor Magazine. Via vowe.

CSS-DISCUSS ARCHIVES
Eric Meyer's css-discuss, "the world’s best mailing list on the subject of practical CSS layout" (Zeldman) now has a public archive. Eric removed all email addresses from the public archive, so it won't turn into a new harvest field for spambots. The former members-only archives no longer are. By the way, "both Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman are aliases of Vicki Wong, who in turn is but a fictional character developed by Amy Franceschini to disguise the fact that she’s really Eric Brooks. Heather Champ is Steven Champeon, who’s actually an AI program developed at M.I.T. and housed on 14 mainframes", Zeldman discloses the doppelgangers secret. Jakob Nielsen will somehow profit from all of it.

PHP I
Sitepoint has a long interview with Rasmus Lerdorf. "In reviewing his responses, I was pleased to discover that the man who originally put the PHP machine in motion maintains an unclouded vision of what the open source movement is all about", the editor says.

PHP II
develnet.org: Ein Fallback - Semi-automatische Session-ID ohne Cookies

JAVASCRIPT
overLIB, a "library created to enhance websites with small popup information boxes (tooltips) to help visitors around", might be useful sometimes if your client just can't refrain from badly accessible gadgets. Via David Watson.