Oxford Archaeology: KVM84 in the starting blocks

Remember my post from March? Where, we're nearly there. Dustin announced a few days ago that he was expecting to push kvm84 in -updates next week. I've been beta-testing and chasing bugs on this for some time now, and I am pretty happy with this backpo...

Sad Trombone

PHP & jQuery: Calendars

Kae Verens has posted a quick post looking at combining the jQuery javascript library with a PHP backend to create a more advanced calendaring system for your site.


I was supposed to write about Datatables for chapter 6, but the website of the plugin...

10 Tips for New iPhone Developers

Making a webapp for the iPhone is a lot like making a normal web site, but with a few quirks to abide by. In this article, I’ll give you a wide variety of tips, covering things such as: “must-haves”, usability guidelines, testing/debugging, pitfa...

Creating a New Image for EC2 by Rebundling a Running Instance - Alestic.com

When you start up an instance (server) on Amazon EC2, you need to pick the image or AMI (Amazon Machine Image) to run. This determines the Linux distribution and version as well as the initial software installed and how it is configured.

There are a n...

Announcements

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NetBeans IDE 6.8 will bring support for PHP 5.3.0
First let me announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.7!
I would like to thank everyone who helped us to make the IDE better. Thanks for every reported issue, comment or contribut...

Fishki.Net - Мокрые кошки (17 фото) | Фишкина Картинка

Cats under water. Pretty damn funny

Announcements

First let me announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.7!
I would like to thank everyone who helped us to make the IDE better. Thanks for every reported issue, comment or contributed fix. To learn more about NetBeans IDE 6.7 please use the follow...

50 Free and Exclusive Twitter Icons

Today we bring you a set of 50 free and exclusive Twitter icons that you can use for your websites.
The icons are provided in both raster and vector formats: The transparent PNG versions are 256×256, and we have also included Illustrator files so that...

Alexander Sack: FAQ - Where can I get firefox 3.5 for Ubuntu?

It’s definitely hot news today: firefox 3.5 was released – you can finally stop holding your breath!

Also checkout the release notes or get an overview on what is new in this great release.

So after all the partying, you might end up wondering:...

Oxford Archaeology: World's most detailed fail

Picked up by the BBC here:

Global Digital Elevation Map covers 99% of the Earth's surface, and will be free to download and use...

"This is the most complete, consistent global digital elevation data yet made available to the world," said Woody Turne...

Open Source JavaScript Regular Expression Library

XRegExp is an open source (MIT license) JavaScript library that provides an augmented, extensible, cross-browser implementation of regular expressions, including support for additional syntax, flags, and methods.
XRegExp adds new regex and replacement ...

50 Dazzling Examples of Polar Panorama Photography

Polar panoramas, also known as stereographic projections or ‘little planets’, are spectacular images that are created out of panoramic photos.
While the effects are quite stunning, these images are actually very easy for anyone to produce.
The basi...

Warning: There are approximately 2,918,472 days until MySQL can no longer store today's date.

mysql> select now() + interval 2918472 day;
+------------------------------+
| now() + interval 2918472 day |
+------------------------------+
| 9999-12-31 16:14:03 |
+------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select now(...

6 Steps To Refactoring Rails (for Mere Mortals) | Union Station

Not just for ruby peepz

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Eric Hammond: Creating a New Image for EC2 by Rebundling a Running Instance

When you start up an instance (server) on Amazon EC2, you need to pick the image or AMI (Amazon Machine Image) to run. This determines the Linux distribution and version as well as the initial software installed and how it is configured.

There are a ...

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Jun 21-27, 2009

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.
The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some her...

Danny Piccirillo: The Video Bay Launching With HTML 5 and Ogg Theora/Vorbis!

Ever since word got out a couple of years ago that the pioneers of the anti imaginary property movement, The Pirate Bay, were working on a YouTube competitor, i've been quite excited! I love Google and YouTube, but they need some competitors to revolut...

Useful CakePHP Tutorial Roundup for June 26, 2009

I read a lot about CakePHP almost every day at work, since I’m writing a CMS that will become the standard for most of our new sites. I’m constantly coming across useful tips, code, and tutorials that save me a lot of time. So I thought it might be...

Recreating the MobileMe Web Gallery Interface

In 2007, Apple updated .Mac (now MobileMe), and introduced the “Web Gallery” feature - a photo sharing service that integrates with iPhoto. Web Gallery offers a beautiful interface, but the layout is done entirely with JavaScript. In this tutorial...

Matt Zimmerman: Micro-blogging maze

I’ve only been micro-blogging for about a month now, and already, it’s gotten complicated.

Diagram of my micro-blogging world

I have five views of the micro-blogging world: identi.ca (web), Twitter (web), Gwibber (client), Twidroid (client), Face...

80 Refined Social Networking Icons For Free

Komodo Media has developed over 80 refined, amazing social networking icons for the top networks around. The Social Network Icon Pack consists of 40+ 16 pixel x 16 pixel icons and 40+ 32 pixel by 32 pixel icons all in 32-bit PNG format. Social Network ...

Lukas Smith's Blog: PHP 5.3.0 stable almost released :)

As Lukas Smith mentions in his latest post to his blog, the release of PHP 5.3 that was originally slated for today has been put off just a bit longer.


It almost happened, but it didn't for now. Originally we planned to release today. But again a few...

Podcast #59 - Blog - Stack Overflow

This is the 59th episode of the StackOverflow podcast where Joel and
Jeff sit down with Damien Katz (of CouchDB) to discuss non-conventional databases, non-conventional programming languages, and taking on non-conventional programming projects.

10 Tools to Improve Your Site’s Usability on a Low Budget

Testing the usability of your site is one of the smartest things you can do. Usability involves making a website’s interface easier to use and simpler to understand, so that the user’s experience is as enjoyable as possible.
The more usable a site ...

Eric Hammond: New Releases of Ubuntu Images for Amazon EC2 2009-06-23 (Karmic Koala Alpha released)

Ubuntu Karmic Koala Alpha is being developed and will be released as Ubuntu 9.10 in October. If you want to play around with Karmic Alpha on Amazon EC2, I have published new AMIs in the US and EU regions for 32- and 64-bit:


http://alestic.com


A ...

Eric Hammond: New Releases of Ubuntu Images for Amazon EC2 2009-06-23 (Karmic Koala Alpha released)

Ubuntu Karmic Koala Alpha is being developed and will be released as Ubuntu 9.10 in October. If you want to play around with Karmic Alpha on Amazon EC2, I have published new AMIs in the US and EU regions for 32- and 64-bit:


http://alestic.com


A ...

OS X Style Docks & Stacks Navigation with jQuery

While mimicking the OS X dock and stacks isn’t new, it’s certainly not common. Nettuts has shown us a few ways to do “Outside the Box” Navigation with OS X style docks and stacks navigation.
jQuery OS X Stack and Drop Stack is my favorite navig...

The Fantastic Photography of Clark Little

Today we’re featuring the fantastic photography of Clark Little, an amazing surf photographer.
His photographs have been mesmerizing the world since 2007, with captivating photos taken inside waves as well as stunning angles usually only seen by hard...

Mirco Müller: Attention-to-detail ’till you bleed

It’s amazing what you can spend half a day on. But in the end it meant bugs got squashed and text in notifications should look more sound now. Now the interaction designers need to make up their mind what’s the best default width for a notification...

Ubuntu Server blog: Server Team 20090623 meeting minutes

Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online
with the irc logs here.





DRBD

ivoks send an email with his proposal to move the DRBD module out of the kernel tree and use DKMS instead. He also started to work on new drbd...

Bodhi.Zazen: KVM network scripts

While tools such as virt-manager and virsh are useful, not all of the features of kvm are available with these front ends.
There are a rich number of options with KVM and I would encourage you to read man qemu if you are interested in learning more. I ...

DryIcons.com | Free Icons

Maurice Svay's Blog: Face detection in pure PHP (without OpenCV)

Maurice Svay has a new blog post that includes a script he's developed to perform facial recognition (detect faces in images) with PHP without the need of the Open-CV library.


OpenCV seems to perform well but you need to be able to install it on your...

Katamari Forever - The Music

Hello everyone, I’m Kazuhito Udetsu, the producer of Katamari Forever for PS3 at Namco Bandai Games. For those asking, “who?” let me introduce myself a bit further. I joined Namco in 1996 as a game designer. I worked in various departments includ...

Katamari Forever - The Music

Hello everyone, I’m Kazuhito Udetsu, the producer of Katamari Forever for PS3 at Namco Bandai Games. For those asking, “who?” let me introduce myself a bit further. I joined Namco in 1996 as a game designer. I worked in various departments includ...

NginxRewriteMultiCondExample

Nginx Rewrite Multiple Conditions Example

Code Navigation Improvements

When you work on a project, you need to navigate around the source code frequently.  NetBeans  IDE provides many navigation features that are highly useful since 6.5 but there were additional improvements and fixes in 6.7 that are worth of mentioning...

New Memcached Extension for PHP - techPortal

Earlier in the year, a new memcache extension was released for PHP by Andrei Zmievski, Core PHP Developer and Open Source Fellow at Digg.com. The extension is for dealing with memcache from PHP, and is called memcached (not to be confused with the exis...

25+ Useful Infographics for Web Designers

Infographics can be a great way to quickly reference information.
Instead of pouring over figures and long reports to decipher data, an infographic can immediately make apparent exactly what a dataset actually means.
Below are more than 25 infographics...

Stack Overflow Developer Lair - Blog - Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow Developer Lair

Remember Stack Overflow Valued Associate #00002? Me neither. Until I saw these photographs of his developer lair, that is:

I Think You're Fat - Esquire

a movement called Radical Honesty.

The movement was founded by a sixty-six-year-old Virginia-based psychotherapist named Brad Blanton. He says everybody would be happier if we just stopped lying. Tell the truth, all the time. This would be radical eno...

10 most unreal landscapes on Earth - Travel Blog Magazine

Unreal landscapes on our very much real Earth are like gates to different worlds. These places blow our minds and cross the limits of our imagination.

Here is a collection of ten most alien-looking landscapes on Earth

Matt Zimmerman: Smooth sailing to GRUB 2

GRUB 2 is now the default for new installations of Ubuntu, but as explained in the announcement, existing GRUB 0.x systems won’t be automatically converted to GRUB 2.  This is because switching to a new PC boot loader is tricky business, and it’s ...

Changing jobs - Evert Pot

I'm changing jobs! Well, at the very least I'm leaving Filemobile.

It was for this job I moved from Hilversum, the Netherlands to Toronto, Canada. A very scary move for me at the time, but it turned out to be one of the best experiences of my life. I'...

Plugin development tips and tricks

This tutorial is for users who are already familiar with plugins.
The main objective of it is to show the power of plugins and to make them more independent from an application itself.

It’s alive!

Would you all forgive us if we said we were sorry for not posting for a while? :(  We’re still alive, I swear!
A lot has happened since we last spoke.  Continuing from where our last post left off, Dropbox won its first Rock Band duel after an extr...

AJAX star rating plugin

In the days of social networks, you often want to give users the possibility to rate things and to see the average rating. The most common user interface implementation is a star rating system. This plugin now offers you an easy, customizable way to en...

Attachable Behavior for Dynamic HABTM Relationships in CakePHP 1.2

It’s not normally a pain to add new HABTM relationships in CakePHP: just edit two the two model files, throw in some almost-stock code, and bob’s yer uncle. But I found myself in a sticky situation: I’m writing (almost done!) a general-purpose CM...

I-Movix SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel on Vimeo

Canned Platypus » Server Design

Boiling down your Computer Science degree into 4000 words - John Lim (PHP Everywhere - By John Lim)

Check My Colours - Analyse the color contrast of your web pages

PHP-FPM is BSD-licensed now - Alexey Zakhlestins blog » php

Some seriously good news here. It took several years of waiting, but, it finally happened. PHP-FPM project is officially BSD-licensed now, which means, that it has good chances to become a part of official PHP distribution.
PHP-FPM is “deciphered” ...

100 Outstanding and Inspirational Infrared Photos

Infrared photography produces some of the most amazing photographs on the planet.
In infrared photography, the film or image sensor used within a digital camera is sensitive to infrared lighting, which allows the camera to pick up any light that’s in...

Christer Edwards: Create Anonymous Squid Proxy For Iranian Election Protestors

As I’m sure is the case with the rest of you (particularly if you use Twitter), I’ve been hearing more and more about the Iranian Election and the difficulties the people there are having in getting connectivity outside of the country. Without gett...

Web2.0 - Logo Creatr

YouTube - Shouting in the Datacenter

Don't shout at your jbod

10 Reasons Why You Should Be Using Firebug

Firebug is one of the most popular tools used by web developers. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at ten of its most attractive features.

1. Console
The first thing you’re going to notice when opening Firebug (either from the
status bar o...

Using RAID on EC2 EBS Volumes to Break the 1TB Barrier and Increase Performance - Alestic.com

Amazon EC2 currently has a limit of 1,000 GB (1 TB) for EBS volumes (Elastic Block Store). It is possible to create file systems larger than this limit using RAID 0 across multiple EBS volumes. Using RAID 0 can also improve the performance of the file ...

Create a Realistic Candy Bar in Illustrator

Realistic renderings can be done easily in Adobe Illustrator.
With vector shapes, the objects can be preserved and edited infinitely which is a great advantage over raster objects.
A few simple tweaks from the Effects menu and an understanding of basic...

iPhone Style Checkboxes in jQuery

Ever wanted those flash iPhone on/off toggle switches on your webpage? Love jQuery? Well then Thomas Reynolds has got something special for you. iPhone Style Checkboxes implements the iPhone toggles as replacements for standard HTML checkboxes.
Simply ...

Danny Piccirillo: 13 things to get excited for in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

I don't know about you, but i'm damn excited about the upcoming version of Ubuntu, so it better deliver! As usual, there will be tons of bug fixes, updated packages, tighter integration, as well as increased stability and usability. All talk so...

Meet the Women of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Near the end of yesterday’s Nolan North interview, a number of people dropped in to give Mr. Nathan Drake some good-natured ribbing. I had a chance to speak with Emily Rose and Claudia Black, aka Elena Fisher and Chloe Frazier, co-stars of the upcomi...

Meet the Women of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Near the end of yesterday’s Nolan North interview, a number of people dropped in to give Mr. Nathan Drake some good-natured ribbing. I had a chance to speak with Emily Rose and Claudia Black, aka Elena Fisher and Chloe Frazier, co-stars of the upcomi...

How I PHP: How to take a website offline. - Arnold Daniels

I’ve seen a lot of methods used to take a website temporarily off-line for maintenance. Most involve a using PHP to disable the site or renaming the index file. There is however a far better method of doing this, by placing the following in the vhost...

find(’list’) with three (or combined) fields « nuts and bolts of cakephp

How about a little trick to extend the find(’list’) functionality?..

Let’s say we need to display a list of users, but instead of just User.id and User.name we need to have User.id, as well as User.name and User.email combined. Unfortunately fin...

Mumbles Brings (More) Growl-Like Notifications to Linux

Linux: Ubuntu 9.04 introduced a set of upper-corner notifications similar to Growl, but they lack for customization in both appearance and usability. Mumbles aims to bring a true Growl-like experience to Linux desktops.
"Aims to," in this case, because...

10 Web Design Rules That You Can Break

As web design and design in general have evolved, rules have been established to ensure consistent and usable designs.
Some of these rules were created simply because website creators abused certain principles without regard for their users.
But these ...

Ubuntu Server blog: Server Team 20090616 meeting minutes

Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online
with the irc logs here.





Merges

mathiaz reminded that there was a list of merges that look easy on the Ubuntu Server team Roadmap. dholbach mentioned the sponsoring list wh...

1001 rules for my unborn son

Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath. Michael Caine

pinvoke - Icons and pixel fonts

Quality web icons to designers/developers.

The icons can be used free for any personal or commercial projects.

* The icons are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

Eric Hammond: Switching apt sources Mirror Repositories in Ubuntu on EC2

UPDATE-3: As of 2009-06-16 02:35a, Canonical has restored the Ubuntu mirror for EC2 in the US region. It looks like everything is operating normally now.

UPDATE-2: Canonical has restored the Ubuntu mirror for EC2 in the EU region.

UPDATE-1: The DNS ...

Eric Hammond: Switching apt sources Mirror Repositories in Ubuntu on EC2

UPDATE-3: As of 2009-06-16 02:35a, Canonical has restored the Ubuntu mirror for EC2 in the US region. It looks like everything is operating normally now.

UPDATE-2: Canonical has restored the Ubuntu mirror for EC2 in the EU region.

UPDATE-1: The DNS ...

php|architect Blog: Opinion: Arrogance is Limiting Framework Adoption

On the php|architect blog there's a new post from Cal Evans (of Ibuildings) with what he thinks is one of the largest reasons that frameworks aren't as well-adopted as they should be - arrogance.


Developers are notoriously self-confident in their abi...

Coding Horror: Is Email = Efail?

While I've always practiced reasonable email hygiene, for the last 6 months I've been in near-constant email bankruptcy mode. This concerns me.

Yes, it's partly my fault for being a world champion procrastinator, but I'm not sure i...

Using FFmpeg to encode videos for the iPod - Lorenz Cuno Klopfenstein - Klopfenstein.net

Most parameters are not standard FFmpeg parameters (you won't find them in the documentation) but are special parameters that work only with the x264 encoder. There is a website that explains all x264 parameters however. The most important setting...

Url Shorteners: Destroying the Web Since 2002

Is anyone else as sick as I am of all the mainstream news coverage on Twitter? Don't get me wrong, I'm a Twitter fan, and I've been a user since 2006. To me, it's a form of public instant messaging -- yet another way to maximize the value of my keystro...

How to Create an Infinite Carousel with jQuery

jQueryforDesigners has added a scrolling carousel that worked in the same way the carousel worked on the Apple Mac ads page. They have published a tutorial which walk through the fundamentals of scrolling carousel, and how they have created jQuery Infi...

Eric Hammond: New Releases of Ubuntu and Debian Images for Amazon EC2 2009-06-14 (Reliability and Security)

New updates have been released for the Ubuntu and Debian AMIs (EC2 images) published on:


http://alestic.com


The following improvements are included in this release:


Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty now uses an Ubuntu mirror inside of EC2 hosted by
RightScale...

Eric Hammond: New Releases of Ubuntu and Debian Images for Amazon EC2 2009-06-14 (Reliability and Security)

New updates have been released for the Ubuntu and Debian AMIs (EC2 images) published on:


http://alestic.com


The following improvements are included in this release:


Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty now uses an Ubuntu mirror inside of EC2 hosted by
RightScale...

Jonathan Ernst: Conversion de scripts PHP utilisant les « short-tags »

Si vous avez gardé de mauvaises habitudes ou que vous avez récupéré de vieux scripts PHP qui utilisaient encore les balises courtes ou « short-tags » ( au lieu de ) qui sont désactivées par défaut dans les versions actuelles de PHP, vous pouve...

jQuery TOOLS - The missing UI library for the Web

Sitemap Deluxe

A nice and easy way for automatically generate your sitemaps. Main features: generate html & xml sitemap, send your sitemap to search engines (Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing), auto generated robot.txt, support for dynamics and statics sections...

Addiction

26 Examples of Online T-Shirt Shops

Many e-commerce and shopping websites suffer from poor quality design.
However, when it comes to online t-shirt shops, creativity is high and there are plenty of designs that are worthy of mention.
Many of these sites target the artists who create t-sh...

Debian Package of the Day: iotop: simple top-like I/O monitor

Article submitted by Paul Wise. DebADay needs you more than ever! Please submit good articles about software you like!
iotop is a console application for monitoring the I/O usage of processes on your system. It is especially handy for answering the que...

Tweeting from PHP - Fabien Potencier

Twitter is everywhere nowadays. Odds are eventually you will want to tweet
from PHP. No need to use one of the numerous PHP Twitter libraries, as
tweeting is as simple as using the PHP built-in file_get_contents()
function:

function tweet($message, $u...

Matt Zimmerman: Overflow error: need for better organization and management

I know that I have too much on my mind when:

I have a brilliant idea
I realize that I can’t do anything with it right now
I realize that if I don’t record it, I will lose it, because I have a lot to think about
I consider creating a list of ideas ...

A Quick, Dirty and Useful Widget Component for CakePHP @ Jamie Nay

Don't know if this should be a widget. But still useful info:

In one of my side projects, which I’m currently refactoring to use CakePHP, I needed to have certain dynamic (i.e. database-retrieved) elements on every page: the three latest entrie...

Christer Edwards: How To Share Your Internet Connection

Recently I asked for some user-contributed content for the site, and while I didn’t get the amount of feedback that I’d like, I did get one good suggestion that I knew I needed to pass on. How to share your internet connection. This tutorial outlin...

FluentDOM.org - Thomas Weinert

FluentDOM got an own webpage at http://fluentdom.org.
You can now find nightly builds at http://nightly.fluentdom.org. A PHPUnit log file and the code coverage report for the latest nightly build is provided, too.
Status Update
We added a FluentDOMStyl...

40 Examples of Incredible Photo Manipulation

Shared by kvz

Amazing. I'm gonna have to put one of these up on my wall.
Photo manipulation is an ever evolving collaboration between photography and graphic design.
Combining certain elements to create a unique image, that can convince even the mos...

Jeff Waugh: Truly, CSS is awesome

… and apparently available on Zazzle.

The Wrong Level of Abstraction

In Why Isn't My Encryption.. Encrypting? we learned that your encryption is only as good as your understanding of the encryption code. And that the best encryption of all is no encryption, because you kept everything on the server, away from the prying...

jQuery Inline Form Validation Engine

When it comes to form validation, it’s hard to have a versatile solution that works with every form. Figuring out how to display errors is not a simple task. Cedric Dugas has created a jQuery Validation Engine in order to solve this problem.
When an ...

CakePHP Book and Code Updates

The Book
For anyone who missed it, I released a free CakePHP book a month ago. Since then it’s been downloaded over 2500 times. I’ve also received some great feedback and have made a bunch of corrections to the code and grammar. The biggest chan...

FluentDOM - Thomas Weinert

Today I like to present a new projekt: FluentDOM
It provides an easy to use, jQuery like, fluent interface for DOMDocument.
The idea was born in a workshop of Tobias Schlitt about the PHP XML extensions at the IPC Spring in Berlin.
The last few days Ba...

Killzone 2 “Flash & Thunder” Pack Out Today - How to Survive a Nuclear Attack

With the release of the second Killzone 2 downloadable content pack “Flash & Thunder” on PlayStation Store today, we have been able to uncover Helghast documentation on their movements in the newest maps: Southern Hills and Beachhead. These two map...

Killzone 2 “Flash & Thunder” Pack Out Today - How to Survive a Nuclear Attack

With the release of the second Killzone 2 downloadable content pack “Flash & Thunder” on PlayStation Store today, we have been able to uncover Helghast documentation on their movements in the newest maps: Southern Hills and Beachhead. These two map...

5 Minute DBA MyISAM Example Config Files

I have been asked this numerous times ever since I posted my InnoDB sample configuration files, Do I have sample configuration parameters for a MyISAM setup? We are seeing less and less people use MyISAM, but it is still popular ( especially in prepack...

Iphone OS 3.0 100 new features - Hackint0sh

100+ New Features in 3.0

Debugging with multiple users - Derick Rethans

As author of Xdebug, people ask me
often the question how to handle the case in teams when there is one
development server and multiple developers working on the same project
on that server. Xdebug only allows you to specify one IP address
to connect t...

Gizmodo - Apple's WWDC 2009 Keynote in 3 Minutes - Wwdc 2009

What happened at the WWDC 2009 Keynote? In case you missed our roundup, check out this slightly abridged, 3-minute summary of the whole 2-hour event. You'll note that the new iPhone 3GS is:

Using jQuery To Manipulate and Filter Data

When a webpage is designed to display large tables of data, a great amount of consideration should be dedicated to allowing the user to sort through the data in a structured manner. In this article, I will go over four techniques: hover effects, zebra ...

Autoresizing Smart Columns with jQuery

Currently, there are two commonly used techniques on displaying columns, the fixed columns and the liquid columns. With fixed columns, there will be certain viewport resolutions, where it leaves excess white space where a column was just not able to sq...

40 Examples of Incredible Photo Manipulation

Photo manipulation is an ever evolving collaboration between photography and graphic design.
Combining certain elements to create a unique image, that can convince even the most experienced set of eyes, requires a very creative set of skills.
Because t...

Images in a database

About six months ago, the question of storing images in a database came up. This is one of my favorite topics, and has many database-agnostic parts.
Personally, I think “tell me about storing images in a database” is actually a great interview que...

Quick SSH Tip - Fabien Potencier

If you need to regularly connect to a lot of different servers like I do, you
probably use SSH to connect to them, and you also probably use your personal
SSH identity file to ease the connection.

Some time ago, I re-discover a neat trick to simplify ...

20 Tools to Make the Life of a Web Developer Easier

Developing a well-rounded aesthetically pleasing website can be a daunting task even for the most seasoned web developer. You must identify current trends and standards and determine ways to incorporate them into your designs. Luckily, there are many f...

File:Unix history-simple.png - Wikimedia Commons

E3 09 Virtual Booth Tour: Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time

Here’s our third “Virtual Booth Tour,” Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (click for our God of War III and MAG installments). In this session, sit down in our E3 booth with Insomniac Games’ James Stevenson as he details the game’s story...

E3 09 Virtual Booth Tour: Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time

Here’s our third “Virtual Booth Tour,” Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (click for our God of War III and MAG installments). In this session, sit down in our E3 booth with Insomniac Games’ James Stevenson as he details the game’s story...

iPhone 3G S and the 'Uh Oh' moment | Phones | iPhone Central | Macworld

With the ultimately adaptable iPhone 3G S, we’re just about there. This thrills me to the core. But then I’m not the guy responsible for making and selling single-purpose handheld devices. If I were, I’d be considering my future very carefully.

Regular Expressions for Regular Programmers

If you've followed my blog for any length of time, you know that I am a total regular expression fanboy. It's almost embarrassing how much I love the damn things. I'm pretty sure my teammates roll their eyes every time they see yet another class I've t...

5 Rotten Things No One Else Has Told You About the Clients You’ll Work For

In over 10 years of freelancing I’ve had the fortune, and sometimes misfortune, of working with some unusual clients.
While each client is a unique individual, I’ve found that many characteristics and behaviors are similar from client to client.
Mo...

xkcd - A Webcomic - Ballmer Peak

Recommended PHP Standards Group - Echolibre

Introduction
A few weeks ago, Helgi and I attended PHP|Tek 2009 in Chicago, as both representatives of echolibre and The PEAR Group.
This post will briefly discuss the formation of a Recommended PHP Standards Group, as put forward by a meeting of PHP d...

E3 09 Virtual Booth Tour: MAG

Here’s the 2nd in our “Virtual Booth Tour” series: MAG (click here for the guided tour of God of War III).
You’ve probably seen some quick demonstrations of MAG, but that’s not enough time to do this complex game justice. In this video, Zippe...

E3 09 Virtual Booth Tour: MAG

Here’s the 2nd in our “Virtual Booth Tour” series: MAG (click here for the guided tour of God of War III).
You’ve probably seen some quick demonstrations of MAG, but that’s not enough time to do this complex game justice. In this video, Zippe...

PHP Application from Remote Server

NetBeans 6.7 is nearly out so it's time to start developing new features for the next release...
Today, I would like to inform you that we have just added one thing that could help people who would like to develop their PHP applications that are on ...

Prevent User Activity with jQuery BlockUI Plugin

The jQuery BlockUI Plugin lets you simulate synchronous behavior when using AJAX, without locking the browser. When activated, it will prevent user activity with the page (or part of the page) until it is deactivated.
BlockUI adds elements to the DOM ...

ffmpeg - Ubuntu Wiki

Fixing FFmpeg on Ubuntu

For a litany of legal reasons, FFmpeg does not come with all of the necessary things enabled for you to encode video for the iPod Video by default. Therefore, we need to build it from source and install some other libraries and...

[dutch] CouchDB - Slacker database in Erlang | Finalist Developers Blog

Wat men momenteel verstaat onder de term ’slacker’ database is eigenlijk een document geörienteerde database zonder schema. De database biedt CRUD operaties voor documenten en mogelijkheden om deze te filteren en te aggregeren.
CouchDB

CouchDB is...

iPodVideoEncoding - Community Ubuntu Documentation

This is a guide for encoding video to a format acceptable by the 5th generation iPods, aka the iPod Video (The format is also compatible with 6th generation iPods, iPhones, Apple TV's, and the QuickTime player / iTunes. The following methods have ...

SimpleRip: Ripping/Encoding DVDs to Xvid with Mencoder | quadpoint.org

With this document, you can generate the necessary commands to encode a movie directly from a DVD title to an Xvid file using mencoder, without the need for other applications or helper scripts. Mencoder is part of the Mplayer tool set, available from ...

RestrictedFormats - Community Ubuntu Documentation

Ubuntu strives to make all software that meets the licensing terms in the Ubuntu License Policy available. However patent and copyright restrictions complicate free operating systems distributing software to support proprietary formats.

Ubuntu's ...

What for PHP6? - Fabien Potencier

PHP 5.3 is just around the corner with a lot of great new features. However,
even if I'm really excited about this new release, I won't make yet another
PHP 5.3 feature list; I will rather look at the future of PHP. PHP core
developers met at php|tek a...

PHP: Strings - Nowdoc

Nowdocs are to single-quoted strings what heredocs are to double-quoted strings. A nowdoc is specified similarly to a heredoc, but no parsing is done inside a nowdoc. The construct is ideal for embedding PHP code or other large blocks of text without t...

Transforming Laser Mouse - Trypticon - Transformers Device Label Device Label at BigBadToyStore

Transforming Laser Mouse - Trypticon

Neil Crookes » CakePHP Sequence Behavior

A CakePHP behavior for maintaining a contiguous sequence of order values. Records can be grouped by zero, one or multiple fields and the contiguous sequence is maintained for each group when adding, editing or deleting records.

Eric Hammond: Tip: Get Startup Time of EC2 Instance from meta-data

Dmitriy Samovskiy discovered that the startup time of an EC2 instance (not the latest boot time) is hidden in the “Last-Modified” header of the EC2 meta-data response. You can only query this from the instance itself, but this should perform bette...

How to make a movement. Lessons learned from dancing guy. | Derek Sivers

Being an analytical learning-addict, I can’t help but distill some lessons from this “Guy Starts Dance Party” video taken last week. I’d really like to hear your thoughts, too. First, let’s watch:

E3 09 Virtual Booth Tour: God of War III

We’re now on our way back from LA, but even with E3 2009 in the books, we’ve got a lot more videos coming for you.
During the conference, we had an elevated area above the show floor where media members and other dignataries (I’m looking at you, ...

E3 09 Virtual Booth Tour: God of War III

We’re now on our way back from LA, but even with E3 2009 in the books, we’ve got a lot more videos coming for you.
During the conference, we had an elevated area above the show floor where media members and other dignataries (I’m looking at you, ...

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Randie: … and this is why I wouldn’t use Microsoft Windows even if it went free and Open Source.

Now let me know what you think. Would it make any difference for you if Windows ...

Alan Pope: Easy Script To Get And Install PPA GPG Keys

If you use Ubuntu then it's possible you'll enable a PPA or two, to install software not in the standard Ubuntu Repositories.
This is a fairly simple process, but there's a little fiddly bit of work to install the GPG key that goes along with each PPA....

A rule of thumb for choosing column order in indexes

I wanted to share a little rule of thumb I sometimes use to decide which columns should come first in an index. This is not specific to MySQL, it's generally applicable to any database server with b-tree indexes. And there are a bunch of subtleties, ...

Use multiple databases in one app based on requested url (Articles) | The Bakery, Everything CakePHP

I needed to build an application where there are multiple customers (companies) using the application and each have their own database, but also some common tables in another database. I selected CakePHP for the framework and started to work with it. T...

Unit Testing Bad Practices by Example - Sebastian Bergmann

This is an abstract for a chapter from a book on Quality Assurance in PHP Projects.Although Unit Testing is a recommended practice for any software project, care has to be exercised such that testing yields the desired benefits. Bad programming practic...

10 Essential SQL Tips for Developers

SQL is yet another essential language for developers wishing to create data-driven websites. However, many developers are unfamiliar with various aspects of SQL; so in this article, we’ll analyze ten essential tips.


1. Use The Right Language

Web ...

One core, one app, multiple domains (Articles) | The Bakery, Everything CakePHP

Dealing with configurations for multiple domains (environments) is always a topic for discussion. I wanted to share my way of dealing with this common problem. This will not be right for all, which is the point. If this does not suit you, there are a f...

Steven Harms: Dell support etc

I recently purchased a Dell Mini, and at some point the battery stopped working. Dell Support was friendly, helpful and I got great services. If you want some Dell Mini pics:



I have had it for a month or two now, and I definitely like it. I am ve...

Padded link targets for better mousing - (37signals)

Among the minor tweaks we introduced with the new Basecamp project switcher are some larger link targets at the top of the screen. Since then I’ve been paying extra attention to link target size. Here are a couple examples of generous link targets fo...

10 Tips to Create a More Usable Web

Whether it’s your portfolio, a blog, a marketing web site, or a collection of games, we all want to attract visitors to our website and to ensure that they have a pleasant experience.
Usability measures the level of a user’s experience and can be c...

Christer Edwards: Getting Started with Firewall Builder

This article is part of a series regarding firewalling and network security using the Firewall Builder tool on Ubuntu. This is user-contributed content. If you would like to contribute an article, please see the About page for contact information.
Gett...

Using JavaScript in PHP with PECL and SpiderMonkey - planetphp

Not too long ago, it seemed like there was a pretty clear distinction between client-side technologies and server-side technologies. Languages like PHP, Perl and Python resided on the server, taking care of tasks like database connectivity, transaction...

AutoLogin Component - An Auth remember me feature

A user can save their login information by ticking off a checkbox in the login form and AutoLogin will store their information in a cookie to automatically log them in (using the Auth Component) on their next visit.

18 Wonderful IDEs for Windows, Mac, and Linux

Last week we looked at 22 Neat Editors for Windows. But sometimes, a code editor simply isn’t enough, especially when you’re working with things like databases and classes. Which IDE will you prefer? Hopefully you’ll find it below!


Instead of s...

NetBeans Twilight Theme! - Nettuts+

Personally, when coding, I prefer to use a dark theme. It's less harsh on my eyes. Unfortunately, there simply aren't many available for Netbeans. After an hour or so of searching, I was able to find exactly one theme -- which was mostly spec...

Guy Van Sanden: a liberating decision

I do quite a lot of webdesign these days and it has always been dificult to get sites to work properly on standard compliant browsers and IE.  But lately, it has become a nightmare to get anything working on both IE6, IE7 and the rest (funny how anyth...

Electronic Evolution: Research Show Robots Forming Human-like Societies

A lone group of Swiss scientists have been using scattered LEDs, neural circuity, and an army of miniature robots to explore the very basis of good and evil. No, you aren't reading the back cover of a DVD in the "one dollar each, please get this ...

Christopher Denter: bpython -- Curses Based Python Interpreter

We all know that one of the cool things that Python offers is it’s interactive shell that makes it possible to quickly test things. It’s included in every Python release and can be invoked by simply entering ‘python’ on the command-line. While ...

The State of Solid State Devices for Databases - John Lim (PHP Everywhere - By John Lim)

Recently I read in AnandTech a good article on Solid State Devices (SSD). It certainly blew away many misconceptions I had about SSD.
From a professional point of view, my main interest would be how databases are affected by the following characteristi...

BackTweets

Track tweets about certain urls

Badda-Bing Indeed.

This is just too good. One of the features of Microsoft’s just launched Bing search engine is that it auto-plays videos in results when you hover over them. Naturally, the first thing a number of people, like Loic Le Meur, did was search for “sex�...

WipEout HD Fury Expansion Pack Details

Hi everyone! This is Daimion Pinnock, Producer for WipEout HD, back to introduce Game Director Tony Buckley. He’s here to tell you about a brand new expansion pack for WipEout HD, as well as its first showing this week at E3!
Hello everybody,
I’m T...

Amazon Web Services Developer Community : Running MySQL on Amazon EC2 with Elastic Block Store

Benefits of using EBS for MySQL

There are numerous reasons why you will want to run your MySQL database on EBS. Some of them are obvious and some are wonderful. They include:

Persistent storage in the event of instance failure - If an EBS volume is u...

Automate EC2 Instance Setup with user-data Scripts - Alestic.com

user-data Scripts

The Ubuntu and Debian EC2 images published on http://alestic.com allow you to send in a startup script using the EC2 user-data parameter when you run a new instance. This functionality is useful for automating the installation and co...

50 Great Examples of Data Visualization

Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information.
And trying to find related content can also be difficult, depending on what data you’re looking for.
But data visualizations can make...

Nick Ali: More UDS Karmic Karaoke Videos

The KDE/Kubuntu folks got up and took a stab at singing. Check out Roderick Greening’s hip swinging

Stuart Langridge and Jono Bacon doing I’m Too Sexy.

After hours of cajoling, I was convinced to sing Born to Be Wild with a bunch of folks. Pers...

Aidan Lister » Blog Archive » Better Error Handling with CakePHP

CakePHP is a wonderful framework, but it really drops the ball when it comes to practical error management. In production environments (DEBUG = 0), only 404 or 500 errors are displayed to the user, and no errors are written to the log files.

This mean...

Aidan Lister » Blog Archive » Implementing row level access control in CakePHP

The ACL Component in CakePHP is very powerful and can be used to solve a wide variety of access control problems. In this tutorial, we provide a step-by-step guide for implementing row level access control to a model. We will assume at least a basic un...