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Thursday, July 10. 2008

Projects abound

I apologize for the lack of updates recently. Between work, meetings, and fun little side projects, I've practically been coding in my sleep. I'll be back to a full time posting schedule soon, I promise. In the mean time, here's a little bit of a description of the projects I've been working on.

Magus - An old school web based RPG / Collectible card game. Collect, buy, sell and trade cards to build powerful decks to duel your opponents. Nearly feature complete, in final testing before our first invite-only release.

Semantic IO - A flexible semantic input/output engine. Enter a file, text, or a URL and pull out an array of useful information. Quickly find phone numbers, addresses, names, or custom searches. Summarize long articles. Find keywords. Automatically tag bodies of text. Full i18n support.

And lastly, I'll be slowly updating and adding (literally) hundreds of research scripts, snippets, and documents to my resources. So - If there's anything specifically that you'd like to improve at or have an idea you want to share or explore - leave a comment. I'd love to hear from some of you lurkers.

Tuesday, June 17. 2008

Wine 1.0 Released

After 15 years of development, Wine version 1.0 has been released. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. While perfect windows compatibility has not yet been achieved, full support for Photoshop CS2, Excel Viewer 2003, Word Viewer 2003 and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 have been among the goals prior to the release. For further information about supported applications, head over to the appdb. Get it (source) while it's hot.

via Slashdot

Firefox 3 Download Day / Release

If you haven't already heard, Firefox 3 has been released, and they're having a Download Day today to go for the world record number of software downloads. Download it, see how many downloads they've had so far, or check out all of the features that are in Firefox 3.

Thursday, June 5. 2008

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2 released

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2 is available in more than 45 languages as a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed.

Tuesday, May 20. 2008

How to install Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) in Ubuntu 8.04

Just like our Ubuntu 7.10 LAMP how to, this guide will cover the installation of Apache, MySQL and PHP on Ubuntu 8.04. I assume you're already running Ubuntu 8.04 for this guide. If you're still running 7.10, you can use this guide.
Continue reading "How to install Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) in Ubuntu 8.04"

Saturday, May 17. 2008

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is here

On schedule, according to the latest estimate, Mozilla has released the first Firefox 3 release candidate. For Mozilla it means what says in the label: unless there is some major bug reported for this release, the “release candidate” part will just be dropped from the name and become Firefox 3 final. Otherwise, additional candidates will be released until the desired level of stability is attained.

Wednesday, May 14. 2008

Useful in-browser development tools for PHP

While debuggers exists, there isn’t much of a tradition for using them in PHP. People have largely come to rely on injecting debugging code directly into the program, for inspecting program scope. The infamous var_dump have served for this purpose and version 4.3.0 of PHP brought us another equally useful function — debug_backtrace.

Comparison of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, MySQL 5, and PostgreSQL 8.3

People ask us time and time again what's the difference why should you care which database you use. We will try to be very fair in our comparison. We will show equally how PostgreSQL sucks compared to the others. These are the items we most care about or think others most care about. There are numerous other differences if you get deep into the trenches of each.

Friday, May 9. 2008

The Future of PHP

PHP is already popular, used in millions of domains (according to Netcraft), supported by most ISPs and used by household-name Web companies like Yahoo! The upcoming versions of PHP aim to add to this success by introducing new features that make PHP more usable in some cases and more secure in others. Are you ready for PHP V6? If you were upgrading tomorrow, would your scripts execute just fine or would you have work to do? This article focuses on the changes for PHP V6 — some of them back-ported to versions PHP V5.x — that could require some tweaks to your current scripts.

Monday, May 5. 2008

Compiz Check

Compiz works perfectly on most hardware that has good drivers - however, problems do exist and sometimes it may not work so well with your computer’s graphics card. Depending upon the kind of drivers and support, Compiz may not work at all, or it might throw up errors when activated.

Those of you who want to experience the ‘wow!’ that Compiz does on your desktop, but are not sure whether it’ll work well with your graphics card and other devices can make use of this little tool called Compiz Check.

Compiz Check checks your system’s hardware and gives you a brief report on the compatibility of your hardware. You can basically find out if Compiz will run on your computer.