Weekly Roundup - May 26th 2008Weekly Roundup - May 26th 2008

Posted May 26th, 2008 in Weekly Roundup

This is my weekly roundup for the week of May 19th to 25th 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 19th 2008
Tuesday: Show Outlook envelope icon in Windows system tray
Wednesday: Using Internet Explorer Conditional Tags for Style Sheet Selection
Thursday: Transaction declined errors when testing DPS
Friday: The Linux CD Mall is now closed

On Saturday I added an off-topic section to my blog to cover running events I race in. At the present time I don't want to start a separate running blog so decided to post them here. Saturday's and Sunday's posts covered the events I plan to run this year and the event I did on Sunday; in the future there will normally only be one or two posts in this category each month.

Saturday: 2008 Running Calendar
Sunday: Sri Chinmoy Auckland Domain Half Marathon 2008/1

Interesting articles found offsite

Apache

David Walsh posted rewrite rules for an .htaccess "down for maintenance" redirect.

CakePHP

askaboutphp.com posted an introduction to scaffolding in CakePHP. Scaffolding gives you a quick and easy way to browse and edit records in the database.

Design

SmashingMagazine posted another one of their useful lists, this one with 40 professional icon sets for free download. Always remember to look at the license agreements for free icons sets etc, because they are often only free for personal use.

Firefox

lifehacker.com posted a list of the top 10 Firefox 3 features for the upcoming release. These include a souped-up add-ons manager, improved download manager and improved system performance.

Javascript

Matt Snider posted a list of reserved words in Javascript.

jQuery

jQuery 1.2.6 was released. I've been using jQuery in the new cyetec.com website (admin area only) and in the revised version of the Just Kids website, which will be launching sometime in June.

Linux

Fedora 9 was released on May 13th and the reviews have started coming since then. Linux.com asks if Fedora 9 is leading edge or bleeding edge, concluding that it manages to balance innovation with a high degree of usability.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 was released. This is the second update release to the RHEL 5 branch. Read the Press Release and Release Notes on the Red Hat website, and articles at The Register, PC World and Linux.com for more details. The PC World article also looks at the SUSE Enterprise service pack (see below).

Novell released Service Pack 2 for SUSE Enterprise Linux 10. Read the press release on the Novell website and PC World for more details.

Mambo

Mambo 4.5.6 was released as the final release in the 4.5 branch. And Mambo 4.6.4 was released in the current branch.

MySQL

sixrevisions.com posted 7 apps for working with MySQL, including TurboDBAdmin (a Ajax based web browser application), EMS SQL Manager (a Windows app), and the old favourite phpMyAdmin.

.NET

thinkvitamin.com posted an introduction to building a web app the Microsoft way with .NET

Klaus Graefensteiner posted about how to show UTC time as the local time zone of the visitor's web browser, using a combination of .NET and Javascript.

PHP

PHP Impact posted a list of open source PHP applications that changed the world, including phpMyAdmin, osCommerce and the Zend Framework. Yes, osCommerce is horrible, but I would agree that it "changed the world" judging on the sheer number of osCommerce installs out there. I can spot them a mile away :)

Silverstripe

Silverstripe 2.2.2 was released. Silverstripe is a PHP based open source framwork/CMS.

Web Design

Design vs Art posted about the importance of favicons, which are those little icons which appear in your browser address bar, on tabs and/or in your bookmarks.

Web Statistics

ProBlogger posted how to use Google Analytics to compare search engine traffic over time.

Zend Framework

PHP Impact posted a list of 50 Zend Framework Tutorials, grouping them into categories such as Getting Started, Zend_Controller, Zend_Form, Web Services and Unit Testing.