First off, from DynamicWebPages.de this morning, there's a new (German, I'm assuming) review about a new book called PostgreSQL and mainly about using PostgreSQL, but with a splash of PHP thrown in for good measure. Now, for those out there that don't read the language, you can use the Fish to translate the contents of this one. It looks like it got a good review and that it's not one of those "hand-holding" books, and is more for the Admin level than anything. Update: the link above is for the book that this tutorial comes from. I apologize for any confusion.

Over on Builder.com is morning, there's a new piece that stands as a testimony to the benefits of Open Source software. In "A journey into open source ", the author walks us through a short history of the Sonoma Portal software that he helped to make a standard fixture in the Open Source world. Using Sourceforge, MySQL, Apache, and the like, he worked to create the Portal system that he had only thought of as a "toy" before now. This article should inspire those developers out there that are limited on funds and maybe limited on other resources as well - you too can do it. Every big project started out small, everyone came from somewhere. Don't let it discourage you into thinking that just because the big boys have all the cash, it doesn't mean that there's not a need for your software.

And, lastly today - the latest article from SitePoint today talks about designing without tables - using CSS to format and layout your pages without the need of table after table after table after - well, you get the idea. Anyway, in HTML Utopia -- Designing Without Tables: Part 2, he picks up where he left off, and talks more about a few standards-compliant commercial applications of this type of design, and exposes a few nifty tips and tricks to improve your CSS layout. I've heard people say that CSS layout is the way to go, that once you try it, you won't go back to the old tables. What do you all think? Are the old standby tables stable enough to stick around for a while longer? Or are CSS layouts really the wave of the future?