Weekly Roundup - December 31st 2007
Posted December 31st, 2007 in Weekly Roundup
This is my weekly roundup for the week of December 24th to December 31st 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. This is the last weekly roundup for 2007, falling quite nicely on the last day of the year!
Articles posted on my blog
On Christmas Day, I naturally posted a Merry Christmas 2007 post instead of usual LAMP etc blog content. I actually wrote the post (and the following day's post) on the 24th so I didn't need to bother about writing any content on those two days. I'm currently attempting to stay several days ahead so if I get busy doing other stuff for a day or two it doesn't matter if I don't write any new content, because it will automatically publish the stuff I'd pre-written at 2pm each day.
While I was writing the Christmas Day post, I managed to accidentally trigger the keystroke which jumps keyboard focus out of the VMWare virtual machine and back to the VMWare Workstation application while I was doing a Ctrl+Z undo. Unfortunately this paused the VM so my Boxing Day post was a rant about Ctrl-Z with VMWare
On Thursday, I posted about an error creating audio CD with K3B with MP3 files after I'd had issues trying to use K3B to create an audio CD and automatically convert the MP3 files to the appropriate format. Fortunately the solution is simple..
On Friday I posted about using find to locate files modified in the last 24 hours etc - find is a Linux/Unix command line utility - and then posted about PHP and Javascript arrays on Saturday and Sunday with the get unique array values with PHP and assigning values to associative arrays in Javascript posts.
Interesting articles found offsite
Download Squad gave an overview of the Gnome desktop environment. In a later post they will look at the KDE desktop environment.
Wordpress Potential looked at how to create a date icon for blogs etc in Photoshop.
Reinhold Weber loooked at 30 similarities and differences between PHP and Ruby
Back in January, Smashing Magazine posted 53 CSS techniques you can't live without, including things like CSS based navigation, CSS tabs, collapsing tables and CSS image replacement. This excellent post has links from each item through to websites with example usage and explanations/tutorials.
The How To Geek looked at how to make Windows XP look like OSX, if you really want to.
Changing opacity with just CSS with CSS version 3 There isn't widespread support for this yet, but one day...
Debian 4.0r2 and Debian 3.1r7 were released. The ISO images and Jigdo files aren't yet available but I guess they soon will be.
Mepis 7.0 was released, and you can buy Mepis 7.0 from the Linux CD Mall.
Sabayon 3.5 was released, and you can buy Sabayon 3.5 from the Linux CD Mall.
WordPress 2.3.2 was released, containing an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your database table structure and limits and stops some information leaks in the XML-RPC and APP implementations. Follow the link above for more details.
How to create curved navigation style tabs in Photoshop using the pen tool.
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