When good document control systems exists, its mind-boggling that anyone still uses network drives to share documents. While just saving a file is super convenient, you are punting on activities that provide long term value. These include version control (no more versioning via file names1), retention policies, and better management of the collaborative editing process […]
Wondering what's new in CSS3 and HTML5 that is bound to make your life easier, and maybe make you really ditch support for IE6 and maybe IE7? Read this article from Smashing Magazine for an excellent overview. It's hard to keep up with the changes that are becoming available in modern browsers and this article
Enery related CO2 emissions are trending downward, hopefully this trend can continue. Surprisingly, all this happened without a big government mandate. Now, if only we would start using more nuclear power. The Department of Energy has run the numbers on US carbon emissions in 2009, and found they dropped by about seven percent compared to
To think I played almost every iteration mentioned in here. I really love the look back, and progression, of the graphics from each game. From its origins as the offspring of spiritual ancestor Railroad Tycoon to the Facebook-exclusive game Civilization Network, we provide a brief history of Sid Meier's Civilization series. History of Sid Meier's
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Interesting reason for supporting IE6, although the articles lays out many more reasons why many websites are no longer supporting Microsoft's outdated browser. Not only do the numbers of IE6 user continue to be significant, the types of users seem to be desirable as well: internet n00bs that click on ads and buy what they
Google can now render labels hierarchically. I've been using a naming convention to get labels to sort the way I want, but this will further declutter my labels list. You have to go to the Google Labs tab in settings to enable it for your account. Nested Labels is just a cosmetic change that lets
Yeah, I'm not going to use that line but Drupal is going to be used in the next Star Trek movie. Pretty cool, but I wonder what took it so long? I bet there's a huge overlap between the two communities. It's no secret that many of us here at Palantir are fans of the
Do you mark everything high or highest priority? I've avoided that trap, but nonetheless, it just means everything is Normal priority for me. Unless I attach a due date to something, its easy for it to slip off of my radar. WebWorkerDaily has a short post describing one way to prioritize your todo list. About
Wow, how do ideas like this get out into the real world? Is this the unfortunate result of groupthink and an unwillingness to challenge someone else's ideas in a meeting? When I first heard about this project the grapevine, I thought it was an Onion story. No one could seriously come up not only with
Both of the lifestreaming projects discussed in this Ars article are both built using PHP frameworks, one Zend and the other is CodeIgniter. I was pleasantly surprised, I expected them to be Python or Rails projects. In days of yore, all a self-respecting Internet enthusiast needed to be at the forefront of Web hipness was