News Roundup - July 2009
What follows is notable news and happenings that I want to purge from my bookmarks folder. It will be a combination of things you already know spiced with things you probably won’t care about. I apologize in advance. The
Reboot...Reboot...Reboot...
And now, ladies and gentlemen, a rant on rebooting. Paul Ramsey’s blog Clever Elephant had a great post recently titled No One Ever Got Fired for Buying Linux. This particular bit stuck in my head: Did you buy an expensi
Make Smarter - Free Books, QT Creator, PDF Webinar
If you’re sitting in your dreary cubicle rather than in temperate San Diego at the ESRI UC*, never fear. I ran across a few items that will help you unshackle your brain from your daily drudgery. First, the only things
YouTube Prepares to Give IE6 the Boot
If there was ever an event that could get myopic organizations to finally upgrade from IE6, this is it. The first time a higher-up can’t watch a cats on keyboards video, IE6 will have officially left the station. Now i
Google Announces Chrome OS
In the take-your-Bing-and-shove-it department, Google has announced it’s working on a new operating system, Chrome OS, designed around the Chrome web browser. Looking through the announcement and the slew of related stor
My Favorite CSS3 Features You Can Use Right Now
Although generally still in draft (it’s modularized and different pieces are further along than others), CSS3 support amongst modern browsers is getting much better. Here are a couple of my favorite tricks you can use ri
XHTML2 Bites the Dust
As reported on Slashdot and elsewhere, W3C has ended the XHTML2 working group’s charter and increased the resources working on HTML5. This effectively kills XHTML2 and places HTML5 as the defining standard for HTML conte
Firefox 3.5 Released
In the it’s-about-time department, Firefox 3.5 has been released. The world’s #2 browser (#1 if you factor out monopolies) is patiently awaiting your download. Among the great new features are: Updated Gecko 1.9.1 r
News Roundup - June 2009
What follows is notable news and happenings that I want to purge from my bookmarks folder. It will be a combination of things you already know spiced with things you probably won’t care about. I apologize in advance. The
Appending Pages to a PDF with Python
One of my customers created ~950 PDF’s of….something flood and letter related. I don’t know what exactly. Hey man, I just work the shovel. Anyways, they decided to tack a disclaimer on each of them after the PDF’s were m