Robert Love

I'm a web technologist, University lecturer and trainer based in Sydney, Australia. I'm particularly interested in standards-based web design and development using web standards such as XHTML, CSS and the DOM, and open-source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. When I'm not making websites, I like to tell other people how I think they should make websites. I have developed, and teach, a few training courses in web technologies offered through Learn4Life at The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. I'm a member of the W3C HTML Working Group, the Web Industry Professionals Association and the Web Standards Group and can be found espousing my opinions on forums and in mailing lists. My wife and son enjoy the benefits of my full-time employment as Senior Developer with News Digital Media, and they wouldn't mind at all if you wanted to contact me with yet a further opportunity for me to get no sleep.

Signified files complaint - an open letter to the Web community

Posted by Robert Love on December 14, 2007 in Articles, HTML, XHTML, Web Standards

Yesterday, Håkon Wium Lie, Chief Technology Officer for Opera Software released his open letter to the Web community in which he states:

Today we have taken a stand. Opera has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission to force Microsoft to support open Web standards in its Web browser, Internet Explorer. We believe that Microsoft […]

A Poem Element for HTML5

Posted by Robert Love on October 8, 2007 in HTML, XHTML

A recent post to the HTML WG list by Dr Olaf Hoffmann entitled ‘HTML 5′ and some poem markup? has got me (and some WG members) all in a huff. Is there hope for the poem online? It appears not. So all you budding web poets better stick to the plain old prose from here on in.

How to Become a Web Developer and Make Lots of Money

Posted by Robert Love on August 1, 2007 in Articles, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript

Over the recent days I’ve been asked to speak with a few new starters where I work. As budding (and not-so-budding) web developers, they’re eager to latch onto the next big thing and blog about it in order to appear cool (oops!). So, in order to stop repeating myself and free up more time for shameless self-promotion, read on if you want to become a web developer and make lots of money.

Running Multiple Websites on Apache

Posted by Robert Love on July 1, 2007 in Apache

You’ve been creating websites on your Apache installation on Windows - making a sub-directory for each site you want to design/develop. But wouldn’t it be good if you could run multiple websites on a single Apache installation - changing http://localhost/mynewsite1/, http://localhost/mynewsite2/, etc. to http://mynewsite1/, http://mynewsite2/, etc. Well you can! - with Apache Virtual Hosts. This article will show you how to run as many websites (or Virtual Hosts) as you like on your Apache installation on Windows by making a few simple additions to your Apache configuration file and your Windows hosts file.

Installing Apache, MySQL and PHP on Windows

Posted by Robert Love on June 1, 2007 in Apache, MySQL, PHP

This is it! The definitive guide to installing and configuring Apache 2.2.4, MySQL 5.0.27 and PHP 5.2.1 on Microsoft Windows XP (SP2) with support for both MySQL and MySQLi PHP extensions. And, yes, if you follow these instructions to the letter, the software will actually work!

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