Weekly Roundup - May 19th 2008

Posted May 19th, 2008 in Weekly Roundup

This is my weekly roundup for the week of May 12th to 19th 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 - May 12th 2008
Tuesday: Change download mirror for Fedora when using jigdo
Wednesday: Fedora 9 released
Thursday: File failed to download with Fedora jigdo - completed with rsync
Friday: Change where Firefox saves files to by default
Saturday: Set the default font size for phpMyAdmin
Sunday: Listing tables and their structure with the MySQL Command Line Client

Interesting articles found offsite

Adobe Flash

Adobe released Flash Player 10 beta for Linux.

Advertising

ProBlogger looked at how to increase your adsense earnings overnight, and illustrated some design choices for adsense ads.

CodeIgniter

Codeigniter 1.6.2 was released. This blog and a few of my sites currently use CodeIgniter but I'm moving on to moving the Zend Framework now.

CSS

Alen Grakalic at cssglobe.com posted some CSS dos and don'ts. This post is the first part in a series.

jQuery

Nathan at onwired.com wrote a useful post about jQuery titled "Using jQuery to Produce Rich User Interfaces" which is a good introduction to moving stuff around with jQuery.

Linux

Fedora 9 was released. Read about it at The Register, Ars Technica, Slashdot, and PC World. Buy Fedora 9 at Linux CD Mall.

Opera Web Browser

Opera released version 4.1 of their Opera Mini web browser for mobile phones. Read an overview at Ars Technica and offical press release on the Opera Website.

Search Engines

Google's Official Blog posted information about how auctions set ad prices, and talks about their "Ad Quality Score" system.

SQL

mabaloo.com looked at SQL Injection, explaining what it is by using some examples of how it works.

Webhosting

J T Pratt posted about what shared web hosts won't tell you, looking at things like email accounts are limited, logging is turned off by default and it's nearly impossible to reach the bandwidth limits your account supposedly has.

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