Weekly Roundup - April 28th 2008
Posted April 28th, 2008 in Weekly Roundup
This is my weekly roundup for the week of April 21st to 28th 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 - April 21st 2008
Tuesday: Hitwise Awards 2007
Wednesday: Directory listings slow with ftp server and CentOS
Thursday: Adobe Photoshop ignoring ctrl+alt+print screen
Friday: Ubuntu 8.04 Released
Saturday: No post
Sunday: No post
Interesting articles found offsite
Camino
Camino 1.6 was released. Camino is a Mozilla based web browser for Mac OSX.
CSS
Reinhold Weber posted 16 confessions of a CSS developer.
SixRevisions.com posted "30 exceptional CSS tecnhiques and examples" with screenshots of the example and a link through to the originting website tutorial.
Design
Smashing Magazine posted some free credit card icons for online shops.
Firefox
The How To Geek looked at how to have Firefox 3 use the Vista Glass effect so it's more like Internet Explorer and other apps. Note that Firefox 3 is still in beta and the glass effect plugin is still in alpha so it may crash your browser etc.
Hardware
The Register reviewed the ASUS Eee PC 900 Linux Edition. This is the edition with the larger 1024x600 screen.
Javascript
Michael Leigeber posted 5 Javascript best practices.
Joomla
Joomla 1.5.3 was released. Joomla is an open source content management system.
Linux
RedHat announced that the Fedora 9 release date has slipped by two weeks. This is really no surprise because Fedora releases are almost always a couple of weeks late.
Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Edubuntu 8.04 were released. You can buy Ubuntu and its derivitives from the Linux CD Mall. No doubt we'll see a flood of non-official derivitives in the next few weeks.
Linux.com looked at what Edubuntu can teach your kids. Edubuntu is one of the official Ubuntu editions which is aimed at schools.
MySQL
The MySQL Performance Blog posted how to estimate query completion time in MySQL.
PHP
New Earth Online looked at how to cache entire PHP pages using the PEAR Cache_Lite library.
Senthil Nathan at IBM posted how to build a customizable RSS feed agregator in PHP.
"Mop" posted a basic PHP turorial on the downthe.net forums.
phpMyAdmin 2.11.5.2 was released.
PHP Fever looked at PHP namespaces, which will be introduced in the upcoming PHP 5.3 release.
Windows
Windows XP Service Pack 3 was released to manufacture. It will be available for download through the Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center services on April 29th. More information at The Register, PC World and NZ PC World.
Windows Vista SP1 has been released to automatic update, so it will now download to PCs that have the automatic update feature switched on. Read more at NZ PC World.
WindowsReference.com posted links to and how to add tabbed windows to your Windows Explorer like how Internet Explorer 7 does; and also how to make the Vista Windows Explorer show window titles.
Vista4Beginners.com posted how to disable UAC for specific applications.
WordPress
WordPress 2.5.1 was released, with a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix.
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