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- Ethan Poole
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- Sat 26 Nov 2005 at 18:15
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For the release of Firefox 1.5, the Mozilla organization is planning a large-scale marketing plan to promote the usage of the open source web browser, Firefox. According to Christopher Beard, the vice-president of products at Mozilla, the mass marketing plans will involve the vast Firefox community, as did Mozilla's original New York Times marketing venture.
Their new marketing plan will have users posting videos of why they like Firefox. Mozilla is also planning to turn Mozilla.com into a consumer-orientated website, changing it from its …
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- Ethan Poole
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- Fri 25 Nov 2005 at 15:01
Templating engines are a great asset to any application or website maintained by a development team. It helps to separate design logic and presentation into two sections. This allows the developers to maintain the program and pass the final values to a template. Then the designers and webmasters can easily change the presentation without having to deal with any code.
Many developers use the Smarty template engine. While Smarty offers a nice amount of features that really take templating far and beyond, it is slightly bloated. PHP itself…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Wed 23 Nov 2005 at 15:56
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The release of PHP5 was just back around the corner, and discussion of PHP6 has already began. Core PHP developers meet in Paris regarding the future of PHP. The meeting minutes have been publishing, allowing you to see PHP's potential future path.
Harry Fuecks has a blog entry discussing this in great detail, if you're interested. PHP has been progressing faster than usual this year. PHP6 is plotted along the horizon, and PHP5 still has not even established itself - wow!…
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- Daniel Malmqvist
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- Wed 16 Nov 2005 at 19:41
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As the name suggest, today we will look into some simple animation. Animation can be useful for making smaller graphics for your website, maybe an avatar, or even a header. Today's lesson will teach you the basics of animation, while making it all too easy.
Step 1
Open Adobe Photoshop. Press CTRL+D to reset Photoshop to the default colors. Fill the background layer with black (#000000). Create a new layer, labeling it "Line." Create an additional layer, naming it "Dot."
I am using 200120 pixels for the image's size, although you …
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- Ethan Poole
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- Sun 13 Nov 2005 at 17:43
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Late last month, users discovered that Sony's copy-protected CDs would automatically install digital rights management (DRM) software onto your computers, when you played their CDs in your CD-ROM drive. This DRM software is a root kit, a type of Trojan horse. The software creeps itself onto your machine, installs itself, and then compromises the security of your computer.
The root kit could potentially allow other hackers to take complete control of your system. Users have already reported that when they attempted to remove the software i…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Wed 2 Nov 2005 at 8:54
In the recent OS X update (10.4.3), Apple made a multitude of small changes and fixes. The main update (for web developers) is that Safari now passes the Acid2 test. It is the first official browser release to pass the standard's test. Both iCab and Konquerer pass in beta versions, but Safari is the first official release.
It should only be a matter of time for most browsers to pass, excluding Internet Explorer. Opera and Firefox are already working on passing the test. This will be a huge improvement in standardized rendering.…
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