Weekly Roundup - June 2nd 2008

Posted June 2nd, 2008 in Weekly Roundup

This is my weekly roundup for the week of May 26th to June 1st 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 26th 2008
Tuesday: Selectively delete cookies in Firefox
Wednesday: swfobject "t has no properties" error
Thursday: Windows Vista Black Screen After Login 
Friday: Internet Explorer 8's compatibility flags
Saturday: FCKEditor 2.6 fixed issue with pre tags
Sunday: Monthly Roundup - May 2008

Interesting articles found offsite

Adobe Photoshop

PC World NZ reviewed Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0. Photoshop Elements is a photo editing tool which includes a number of tools from full blown Photoshop and is aimed at amateur photographers, hobbyists and so on.

C#

DailyCoding.com posted how to create RSS feeds with C#.

Hardware

ASUS is going to release a desktop version of the Eee PC called the Ebox.

Javascript/AJAX

Google is now hosting AJAX libraries for you to reference in your HTML, for example to load Prototype 1.6.0.2 you'd do this: <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1.6.0.2/prototype.js"></script>

KDE

KDE 4.1 beta 1 was released. OSNews has a post about this beta release as well. The final release of KDE 4.1 is currently scheduled for July 29th (my birthday!).

Linux

Abandoned Zone reviewed several lightweight Linux distributions: Arch, Damn Small Linux, Puppy, TinyMe, Xubuntu and Zenwalk.

John Rockefeller looked at how to split large files in Linux/Unix and reassemble them again.

MySQL

LifeScaler.com posted how to put conditional queries into MySQL queries, with examples using IF() and WHEN/THEN/ELSE.

Usability

Jakob Nielson posted about whether the OK button should  come before or after the Cancel button.