Archive for April, 2007
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
I can agree with the violent acres post on depression but I do think it misses some very obvious points. I believe that, especially in rich countries like America, one has vastly more freedom and power over one's life than elsewhere. The fact that relatively few seem to ...
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
IcoFX is the best freeware icon editor for Windows.
Aside from some really crap, not-worth-mentioning, alternatives like GoldIcon, this is really it when you want a freeware icon editor that you can, apparently, use commercially.
Bonus: IcoFX is also available in an alternative zero-install portable app format.
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
Zach Lipton, a blogger over at Mozillazine, shows himself to be a real human being in his post - The World Is Not Flat. His description of the difference between the reporting on the VA Tech shootings and the ongoing violence ni Baghdad demonstrates an all-too-rare awareness of the ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Pádraic Brady has posted a synopsis of a discussion about the Zend Framework. The approach taken is excellent with real-world usage of the Zend code.
I have long been a fan of the concept behind the Zend Framework - which fits with my understanding of 'small pieces loosely joined' - ...
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Nicolas Faugout has a very neat, and tiny, method for creating an XHR object in different browsers:
if (!XMLHttpRequest) {
window.XMLHttpRequest = function() {
return new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');
}
}
// ....
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
Via Ajaxian
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
For years now I've heard tell of 'Sparkle', Microsoft's supposed alternative to the Flash player / platform. At the time of this writing you can find search results on mcrosoft.com about sparkle, but few of those pages exist, and none of the actual product links. I'm guessing, but I ...
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
If you're interested in taking a breakdance course in London you might want to check out the following dance schools:
Basement Dance Studio - York Way
PS2 Breakstation - Kingsland Road
Pineapple Dance Studios - Covent Garden
Most of these studios offer courses for adults and younger learners and other related courses as well, ...
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
ThisModernWorld has some pictures comparing recent anti-occupation demonstrations in Iraq with the 'famed' statue toppling that happened 4 years earlier. One can totally ignore the part about the recent anti-occupation demonstrations and still be surprised at the empty area around the statue in it's last moments.
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
Hicksdesign reports that OS X Leopard will disable InputManagers, the technology behind plugins like Saft. Must admit I'm even less tempted away from my beloved Firefox now.
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