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Weekly Roundup - December 3rd 2007Weekly Roundup - December 3rd 2007

Posted December 3rd, 2007 in Weekly Roundup

This is my weekly roundup for the week of November 26 to December 2nd 2007, where I look back at the posts I made over the past week as well as useful and interesting articles on other websites and blogs that I might have read.

Articles posted on my blog

A couple of weeks ago I got sick of using openSUSE after some mail issues pushed me over the edge, but couldn't afford the downtime of having my main desktop not running while I got everything going again in a fresh install. So I installed a nice fresh Kubuntu desktop in a VMWare Workstation virtual machine. Naturally there's always a lot of things to configure "just right" so a number of posts over the past few days have looked at configuring things in Kubuntu and Ubuntu, as follows:.

Other, non Kubuntu related, posts for the week included looking at the Yum error message Metadata file does not match, noting that CentOS 5.1 was released yesterday, and a monthly roundup for November which looked at the most read posts and visitor numbers to my blog over the past four months.

Interesting articles found offsite

pixelspread.com posted an article about CSS menus without any Javascript, with an example. I haven't yet had a chance to have a go at this myself but it looks pretty interesting.

Slashdot reviewed the book the PHP Anthology, 2nd Edition which you can buy from Amazon

CrystalXP.net posted how to make XP look like Vista if you really wanted to.

Three weeks ago I linked to a PHP post about setting up a basic currency converter. There was a follow up article this week adding to the tutorial.

12 common programming mistakes to avoid, including improper or no comments, not reviewing your code and so on.

8 Bad Decisions When Starting a New Website, including using free or cheap web hosting, not buying a domain name, and so on.

What to do when the domain name you want is gone, including look for alternate extensions, mis-spell it, and so on.

The How To Geek looked at how to access GMail via IMAP with Outlook and Thunderbird

Blogging Tips listed 75 websites you can submit your blog to

The in-browser HTML editor, FCKEditor 2.5 was released. I've used this on a number of websites.

6 CHM viewers for Linux. CHM is a compiled HTML format used in Windows help files. There are a number of sets of documentation available (eg MySQL and PHP) in CHM format; if you're using Windows this is no problem as the format can be read by default, but on Linux you need to install special CHM viewing software. This article looks at 6 of them.

The Register reported that Dell has shipped 40,000 Linux PCs