Weekly Roundup - March 17th 2008
Posted March 17th, 2008 in Weekly Roundup
This is my weekly roundup for the week of March 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
Monday: Weekly Roundup - March 10th 2008
Tuesday: Create CDs from a DVD with jigdo
Wednesday: Dovecot "Cannot allocate memory" error
Thursday: Checking daylight savings settings on Linux
Friday: Postfix "file too large" error message
Saturday: 301 redirect with PHP
Sunday: Correcting the PHP timezone
Interesting articles found offsite
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop CS3 has been run using Wine on Linux using the current development version of Wine. Info was posted by Jon Ramvi on his blog, and the original post in the wine bugs list is here.
PC-BSD 1.5 was released. PCBSD is a FreeBSD based BSD distribution with a GUI installer to make it easier to install FreeBSD to your desktop, and you can buy PC-BSD from the Linux CD Mall.
CSS
Antonio Lupetti posted about "How to design a sexy header for your site using CSS" in his Woork blog. He shows screenshots of the work he did in Photoshop, the HTML and CSS. And he also wrote a useful post about how to "write a well structured CSS file without becoming crazy", including tips like being simple, being methodic, and doing a basic CSS reset.
StylizedWeb.com posted the most used CSS tricks, including rouded corners without images, rounded corners with images, and styling ordered lists.
FreeBSD
Software in Review reviewed FreeBSD 7.0. You can buy FreeBSD from the Linux CD Mall.
Internet Explorer
WindowsReference.com posted about how to change the text editor when using the "View Source" function in Internet Explorer 7. It requires editing a registry value but is very simple to do.
Joomla
Joomla have set up a demo website at demo.joomla.org where you can play around with a demo Joomla installation. All user accounts are given Super Administrator access and can perform all functions except those that could be abused. Each demo user account remains active for one month.
JQuery
This post at iScripting.net looks at how to manipulate HTML with JQuery.
Linux
A beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 was released and is available for Red Hat customers. This is of course a *beta* release and should not be used in production environments etc etc.
Mozilla Firefox
"Pavlov" posted about memory usage in Firefox 3 and how they've managed to significantly cut down the amount of memory used compared with previous versions of Firefox. And you can also read the Digg discussion about this post. Pavlov is a software engineer at Mozilla Corp.
PHP
Antonio Lupetti posted a tutorial and code on how to do auto suggest with PHP, where when you start typing something into a text box an Ajax function is called to query the database and make some suggestions based on what you have typed so far.
Prototype
DZone's Ajax Zone looked at object oriented programming with Prototype. Prototype is a comprehensive Javascript library.
SQLite
Dr Dobb's Portal wrote an article about virtual tables with SQLite and demonstrates how you can query your file system using SQLite.
Miscellaneous
SixRevisions.com posted a list of "20 websites that made me a better web developer" including sites like Alert Box, A List Apart, Digg and Site Point.
Web Distortion posted a list of 9 Rich Text Editors for web browsers, which a brief description of each.
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