Weekly Roundup - December 24th 2007
Posted December 24th, 2007 in Weekly Roundup
This is my weekly roundup for the week of December 17th to December 23rd 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
I started the week off posting about what RSS is on Tuesday, partly because I intend to link to this underneath the subscribe to the RSS feed in the site navigation, and also because on Wednesday I talked about Redirecting an existing RSS feed to Feedburner and felt I should do some background on what RSS is for any non-technical readers (although I doubt there are any of those on this blog...) I would like to follow the "what is RSS" post up at a later date with more posts about how to subscribe to RSS with various different RSS feed readers and use a variety of different websites as examples.
On Thursday and Friday I spent some time looking the PHP date() and strtotime() functions in the posts Formatting Dates with PHP and Using strtotime with PHP
And finally, on Saturday and Sunday I looked at some issues experienced with the CentOS 4.6 ISO images: MD5SUM errors with CentOS 4.6 when creating CDs and DVDs and CentOS 4.6 faulty ISO images
Interesting articles found offsite
Register Developer looked at Amazon's simpledb which has just been released as a limited public beta. You can read more information about Amazon's simpledb at Amazon.com.
The16art.com posted about how to use CSS to make links appear differently if they are onsite or offsite, without having to specify different classes: the CSS just works it out based on the URL.
Shoemoney posted about advanced Google search parameters, using dates and OR
OpenOffice.org 2.3.1 was released
Rounded corner with rounded borders in Photoshop; if you don't need to rounded borders, this is a quicker and easier way to do it, from an older post
This older post is about speeding up and improving performance of Kubuntu and Ubuntu. In particular it looks at preloading and changing the level of swappiness. I have personally used the preloading and swapiness recommdations myself on Kubuntu and they do seem to have made a difference.
Damn Small Linux 4.2 was released. As usual I'll plug myself and let you know that you can buy Damn Small Linux from the Linux CD Mall.
Ars Technica had a look at Firefox 3 beta 2
The HowTo Geek looked at using a combination of the command line tools "file" and "cut" to find images files whose pixels diminensions are greater than a specified amount.
Create drum beats on Linux with Hydrogen
Linux Directory Structure - explains what a lot of the common directories are for and what they store in them.
Mepis 7 was released just in time for Christmas. Buy Mepis 7 from the Linux CD Mall.
Kubuntu 8.04 will offer both KDE 3.5 and KDE 4, but not LTS (long term support), whereas Ubuntu 8.04 will include LTS.
Silverstripe OpenSource CMS 2.2.1 was released
FCKEditor 2.5 and 2.5.1 were released. This is a Javascript library for editing HTML in your web browser, and works cross platform and cross browser. (Unfortunately it doesn't work in my browser of choice - Konqueror, so I have to edit stuff in Firefox instead).
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