Weekly Roundup - February 18th 2008
Posted February 18th, 2008 in Weekly Roundup
This is my weekly roundup for the week of February 11th to 17th 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
Tuesday: Format a partition with the ext3 filesystem
Wednesday: PHP Error Class 'XsltProcessor' not found
Thursday: Saving a file downloaded with wget with a different name
Friday: SSH server security through obscurity
Saturday: Changing the default text editor on Linux
Sunday: Install VMWare Tools on a Linux Guest Virtual Machine
Interesting articles found offsite
CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter 1.6.1 was released. This blog currently uses CodeIgniter.
Design
TurboMilk looked at 10 mistakes in icon design.
Drupal
Javascript
The prototype project offered a script for debugging the changeover from prototype version 1.5 to 1.6.
G Scott Olson posted a cheatsheet for JQuery.
Joomla
Joomla 1.5.1 and Joomla 1.0.14 were released.
Linux
Linux.com looked at Small-scale SNMP reporting using BASH for cron and PHP for an immediate view.
Linux.com had brief looks at the SAM Linux and Zenwalk Linux distributions. You can buy SAM Linux and buy Zenwalk Linux from the Linux CD Mall.
MySQL
Tombatron looked at common MySQL functions and their usage, including examples of functions such as DATEDIFF() and UUID().
The MySQL Performance Blog looked at how to check MySQL config files so when you need to restart you know if there are any errors in the MySQL configuration.
PHP
WebCash looked at how to create an RSS feed using PHP.
DevX.com looked at how to create SVG images with PHP.
Search Engines/SEO
Mr SEO posted a list of directories on which you can post your website for free, and that do not require a reciprocal link back to them. The list includes Google's PR for each site. DirectoryTotal.com posted 5 directories you can post to for free, with a brief description of each.
Other
The Register reported that Trolltech has updated its popular Qt framework by integrating the WebKit browser engine.
Suketu Vyas posted 50+ open source/free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat, breaking the list into downloadable PDF creators, online and desktop PDF editors, PDF viewers, compatability, command line manipulation and editing, PDF creation libraries, and other tools.
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