UTF-8 and $€%' ... strange characters

For our latest project, we integrate software written by other developers (brrr)... A lot of character and encoding issues arose, but the combination of practices on this interesting page magically solved them all... The UTF-8 database, showed normal characters, but the output in html was a disaster.

It also mentions some good practices and tips. In the future, PHP 6 should solve all encoding problems automatically...

Reset CSS

A nice starter when creating XHTML + CSS from design documents can be found at: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/.
This makes sure your basic html looks the same in all browsers. Very convenient to overcome Internet Explorer problems...

Embedding Google Calendar

When looking for an easy-to-use calendar to show availabilities of a campspot, we bumped into Google Calendar (again :)).
With the google account our customer already uses for Google Analytics, they can create a calendar. This calendar can easily be embedded in any website, and customized to the specific needs (e.g. set backgroundcolor and start with month-view).
One other nice feature: when you make the calendar public, your calendar is to be found in Google, adding extra visibility on yet another channel.

Intuit Announces Acquisition of CMS Made Simple

Blogpost  on CMSMS website... Don't know yet if this is good, or bad news... Anyway, I decided to download the last version of CMSMS and store it in a very safe location...

Offcourse, it's April 1st today :)