Hit & Run > What Are the “Failed Theories That Helped Lead Us Into This Crisis”? – Reason Magazine Just remember, its not only the libertarians fault that this whole mess got started through our control of the republican party through Bush, its also our fault that Mr. Hopey McChange got elected and the democrats […]
I’d be tremendously happy to see D.C. United get its own stadium anywhere that is Metro accesbile. But the tone at the end of the article, about the county not being able to offer the team any incentive is confusing. AFAIK, the team hasn’t been looking for any locality to fully fund construction of a
Looks like my favorite PHP wiki has some really cool plugins for it. Old and New DokuWiki Plugins [splitbrain.org] During the last few weeks I wrote a few new DokuWiki plugins and updated some old ones.
Just read this in an RFP, what do you think it means? "The site should be 99% accurate in IE7, Firefox 2 and 3, Safari for Mac and PC, and Chrome" How do you go about measuring 99% accuracy of a web page. Does this mean pixel perfect rendering to your designer’s PDF file, non-websafe
For Drupal module developers, the hook_nodeapi function affords a lot of flexibility for interacting with nodes at various operation. If you just start pasting or writing code, you’ll quickly end up with a giant, messy switch statement. But there is a simpel way to keep your code nicely organized. First, lets take a look at
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Just when you thought jquery couldn’t get better, the 1.3 release shows drastic performance improvements across a number of benchmarks. That, and the new live event framework, which will make your life easier if you’ve ever dealth with binding and rebinding events (F1 Timetracker & Workload I’m looking at you), are valuable improvements to the
There are a number of reasons for making sure that your website is served from a single hostname, that is the address users see in their browser’s location bar. This post will show you how to do that once with two rewrite rules and never worry againg. A single hostname helps with SEO by not
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Will we see more organizations outsourcing email services? Having run my own personal mail server for a few years, I’d be quite wary of purchasing and operating your own mail servers. Yes, if you own your mail servers, you can make them as secure and redudant as you want if price is no limit. But
So far, the article I’ve learned the most from in this year’s edition of PHP Advent is PHP Advent 2008 / MySQL Client Tips. Did you know you can use your favorite text editor from the mysql command line client? Or get help on the syntax for SQL commands? I didn’t before reading this article,
I just read Easy, Efficient Hi-Def Video Playback, and after reading through all the "Convenient" steps required to rip and watch a movie, I’m left shaking my head. This is more convenient than putting a disc into a player? You also lose DVD chapters and menus this way, so good luck watching part of a