Weekly Roundup - February 11th 2008
Posted February 11th, 2008 in Weekly Roundup
This is my weekly roundup for the week of February 4th to 10th 2008, 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
- Dynamic MMap ran out of room error on Debian
- Install APC (Alternative PHP Cache) for PHP on Linux and Displaying PHP APC Cache Information
- Getting "Transaction Check Error" with Yum
- openSUSE Complains it "Cannot Find Repository" when installing
- VMWare Server Console Connection Refused
Interesting articles found offsite
CSS
CSS Tricks shows how to make a box with a top image, image border and bottom image expand. The article is here and example here.
eCommerce
smashingmagazine.com posted a shopping carts gallery, looking at attractive shopping carts, carts that can improve usability, that support the content, creative uses and subtle uses of shopping carts, shopping carts that are embedded into the logo and shopping carts gone wrong.
Hardware
Ars Technica reviewed the MacBook Air in a multi page article which covers all the features of the MacBook Air and a number of photos.
Javascript
Scott Klarr posted links to a bunch of cheatsheets for Javascript/AJAX, jQuery, Scriptaculous, MooTools, Prototype, Micsrosoft Ajax Library, Yahoo YUI and Symfony.
Joomla
KDE
Linux
The US Army is migrating from Windows to Linux. There's a report about this at The Register, and there's a list of other website's articles on this page at Astawerks VoIP and Tech Blog.
Yellow Dog Linux 6.0 was released. This is a CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux derived distribution which focusses on the processors used in Sony PS3, Apple G4/G5, and IBM System p.
Sysdigg looked at how to install an SSH server onto the ASUS Eee PC.
Scott Klarr posted l a bunch of Linux cheatsheets, covering topics such as the command line, package management, bash, awk and sed.
MySQL
The MySQL Performance Blog posted how to find the largest tables on a MySQL server. This query looks across all databases on the server.
PHP
In last week's roundup I posted a link to Reinhold Weber's "40 signs you really are a lousy PHP programmer". This was just a brief list without any extra explanation. Web Cash posted their own article with just 5 PHP Coding Mistakes to Avoid, but has a paragraph of explanation about each one. Most of these apply to all programming, not just PHP specifically.
ajaxray.com posted a PHP function for generating UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifier).
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL 8.3 has been released. Read the press release on the PostgreSQL website for more details and there's a discussion about this on Slashdot if you're interested.
Virtualization
techthrob.com looked at 4 virtualization products used on Linux: Qemu, Parallels, VMWare and Virtualbox.
CNet's news.com reported that Ubuntu has picked KVM over Xen for virtualization
Windows
The HowTo Geek showed how to add "Open In Notepad" as a right-click menu option on Windows. Although most free/shareware 3rd party text editors are much better than Notepad, and automatically add right-click options, this can be useful if you are happy with notepad, and because it shows how to add right-click open-with to the context menu you could do it for any application.
The Windows Vista blog announced on Monday that Windows Vista SP1 has been released to manufacture.
WordPress
Word Press 2.3.3 was released containing urgent security updates.
Other Stuff
British firm Reaction Engines' proposed A2 jet could whisk passengers around the world at 6100km/h, about five times the speed of sound.
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