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
I’ve been using rsync.net to have nightly offsite back ups for configuration files, database snapshots, and web sites on this server. They provide a great service that works really well and helps me sleep a little better at night. If you need a backup service, I’d recommend you give them a serious look, especially after
My last attempt to edit video in Linux, sent me back to iMovie on my Mac and Magix Movie Editor in wondows. It might be time to revisit video editors in Linux.Open Movie Editor: Linux Video Editor with Plot Twists | OStatic In general, Linux video editors, admittedly, aren’t where Mac video editors are presently.
Good to see someone is finally asking their users to upgrade to IE6. I hope more websites start ignoring support for IE6 soon, since its such a headache to cater to. Of course, each will have to make its own cost-benefit decision, but we’re pretty close to the point that for most sites, supporting IE6
Seems it probably won’t work so good. Glad to see Bolivia bucking the trend here. Seems like privatizing, oops, I mean purchasing shares in a bank is more effective. RGE – Nouriel Roubini’s Global EconoMonitor But government purchase of bad assets was the exception rather than the rule. It was used only in Mexico, Japan,
Market forces could be used to clean up power plants in China by encouraging the use of cleaner burning coas. We need China to clean up its power sector if we want to make a real dent in global Carbon emissions. On CARMA, you can see the best publicly available data on the Chinese power