Weekly Roundup - February 4nd 2008
Posted February 4th, 2008 in Weekly Roundup
Due to a period of two weeks where I didn't post at all, this "weekly" roundup covers the last three weeks from January 15th to February 3rd 2008. In my weekly roundup 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 follow up to the use of www in a website address post in October
- How to fix the error message redhat-lsb-3.0-8.EL conflicts with file from package redhat-lsb-3.0-8.EL on CentOS 4 when running 'yum groupinstall "Development Tools"'
- The monthly roundup for January 2008, looking at most popular posts, visitor numbers etc to my blog
- A follow up to my original post about Network Solutions automatically registering domain names for 5 days on all domain searched for on their site
- A very brief post mentioning how I hadn't posted for 2 weeks but that blogging has been resumed
- How to mount an ISO image on FreeBSD
Interesting articles found offsite
Although I spent two weeks not posting a single blog article, I still kept a record of useful arrticles and posts offsite. There's a lot because it covers a period of three weeks and, as started in the last weekly roundup, they are grouped in general categories.
PHP
10 PHP Myths Dispelled, including PHP is not a truly Object-Oriented Language, PHP Encourages Sloppy Code and PHP isn't really for "serious" developers.
Using ZendForm to create forms in PHP. Another article about this here.
Reinhold Weber has a brief example of the difference between using MVC and not using MVC in PHP and a list of other sites with PHP coding guidelines.
Linux.com looks at Zend Studio for Eclipse
Linux/Unix
Tutorial about how to forward Gnome using an SSH session on a Linux.
Set default editor in Debian, Ubuntu etc
Linux.com looks at Mepis 7.0 and you can buy Mepis 7.0 from the Linux CD Mall.
Ubuntu Geek looks at the Sysinfo on Ubuntu which shows a wealth of information about your system
Linux.com looks at KIO slaves, a very useful feature of the KDE destop environment that I personally couldn't do without.
Sebastian Wains looks at how to increase or decrease the timeout for requiring a password for sudo on Ubuntu and its deritives.
The Download Squad looked at how to locate files on Linux using the command line tools whereis, locate and find.
Ars Technica looks at how KDE 4 is being ported to run on Windows and OSX, with screenshots of some applications running on Windows XP (Konqueror web browser, Kate text editor, Dolphin file manager, Kmahjongg tile game). More info about releases etc can be found on the KDE/Windows news page, and how to install KDE on Windows at KDE's techbase.
List of 68 free Linux eBooks on PC World New Zealand, grouped by topic.
How to open a command line on gOS
Mount a CD/DVD ISO image with HP/UX
GUI for mounting/unmounting CD/DVD ISO images in Ubuntu
Photoshop
Exporting each layer in a Photoshop file to separate image files
MySQL
Sun buys MySQL: read the press releases on the Sun website, and the MySQL website.
Microsoft/Office/Windows
How to disable Windows Vista's Aero interface before running an application such as a video game.
Hardware
Gizmodo compares 5 small form factor notebook computers, after the unveiling of the Apple MacBook Air at MacWorld.
Software Releases
Movable Type security updates 4.01a and 3.36 and releases 4.1. Movable Type is CMS system.
Joomla 1.5 released. Joomla is CMS system.
Mambo 4.5.6 is released, the last of the 4.5 branch. Mambo is CMS system.
PHPTAL 1.1.11 was released on 29 Jan 2008. PHPTAL is a templating system for PHP.
Prototype 1.6.0.2 was released. Prototype is a Javascript library.
Drupal 5.7 is released. Drupal is CMS system.
HTML
Ars Technica and The Register have a look at the HTML 5 draft specification and the differences between HTML 4 and HTML 5 can be read from the source at the W3C website. Reinhold Weber has a nice breakdown of the differences, splitting it up in easily readable format to absent elements, absent attributes, absent presentational attributes, new elements for better structure, and other new elements.
The Internet Explorer blog at Microsoft looks at how IE8 will have "super standards mode", supporting the rendering modes of IE6 and IE7, and that a special meta tag will be required to enable the IE8 rendering engine. A List Apart and Ars Technica also posted articles about this, and there discussions on Slashdot, Digg and OSNews.
Javascript
Cheat sheet for the Prototype Javascript library.
Domain Names
Google wants to kill domain tasting despite the fact it will make less revenue by doing so, and ICANN wants to stamp out domain tasting by not refunding the 20c portion of the domain name registration. Those 20c add up to a lot when you consider 45 million domains were tasted in January 2007 alone. You can read about this at Ars Technica and The Register.
SEO
Although the article is about choosing a CMS platform for your website from an SEO perspective, it contains an excellent checklist for the sorts of things most sites should have from an SEO perspective.
Other stuff
Nokia has bought Trolltech, which is the developer of the QT development toolkit, and which is used by the KDE desktop environment.
How to add tabs to putty. PuTTY is a freeware SSH client for Windows.
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