Ok,
This weekend has been kind of rough in terms of information. I’ve been playing with a lot of new toys (CakePHP, AutoHotKey, ScriptALicious) so my brain is kind of fried right now. I promise, I’ll report when I sort things out.
Now I’ve never really been a Photoshop guy. I just don’t have an eye for that stuff, even if it may be very basic. What’s my solution? My Cool Button. This service allows you to created, not to bad if I do say so myself, Web 2.0 buttons on the fly.
A lil' PHP and GD2 sure does go a long way these days.
Lately, I’ve been having some issues with me web host. It’s just been crawling lately with a lot of outages. Also, my apologies for the lack of posts, but along with these host problems, I’ve been having my own PC problems also.
It seems like right now computers on a whole don’t really like me. But I promise, I’ll be with you guys soon.
Stay tuned!
Google has upgraded their beautiful and free Google Analytics for tracking traffic on your website. It’s all flash and beautiful.
There are a lot of new features that I haven’t yet investigated, but what I do know, is that it’s pretty, lol.
Just one thing to note however, I can’t seem to find the place where they have average visits. You know, the average number of visits per day? In all the adding of new stuff tehy must have overlooked it guess.
Web 2.0 has been really spreading like wildfire the past few years, but there area few sites that have really taken total advantage of it and used it to the fullest. Here’s the big list of 10:
MySpace YouTube FaceBook Wikipedia Bebo Digg Flickr Netvibes Del.icio.us Meebo The first 4 aren’t a big surprise. These are the big contenders in the game right now. I thought Digg and Flickr would have a higher ranking though.
Back last year I posted about Fixed vs. Fluid Layouts and Screen Resolutions. I made reference to a friend of mine that I went to and saw how my site looks on his LCD Monitor. That was just a couple few hours, one experience. Everywhere else I go I encounter only 17" monitors, CRT or LCD. So that 800 pixel limit for sites seems to work out just fine.
Now I finally got the parts for my new computer last week.
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Ruby on Rails - Faster, easier Web development NAND drives -Bye-bye, HDD? Ultra-Wideband -200x personal-area networking Hosted hardware -Supercomputing for the masses Advanced CPU architectures -Penryn, Fusion and more Ruby on Rails has been getting real rave reviews lately. Honestly, I haven’t delved into it that deeply yet, but from my initial experience I don’t see what all the fuss is about, but I promise to investigate more.
Introduction Here we go again, the age old story. Do we use plain old HTML Tables or do we invest the time and energy into learning and using CSS properly? Duh, it’s not even worth saying anymore. Tables suck, tables have always sucked. The only thing that keeps tables going for so long is their ease of design.
More Evidence Tables Bad, CSS Good tells us, again, why we should us CSS whenever possible:
Introduction Ever wanted to clock your website’s speed? Of course you have. If you’re any sort of Web Developer you’ve used Web Page Analyzer in the past and you’ve probably gotten by with it. There’s a new AJAX tool called WebWait, which does a similar job except much, much cooler. I mean, after all it’s AJAX right?
WebWait is unique is many ways.
One of the nicest features is that you can set it to perform multiple runs at specified intervals and take an average of all of them.
For most of my real quick image editing I usually use Paint.NET. That’s for when Photoshop is overkill and I’m not really a Gimp man, sorry. And of course MS Paint, or whatever it’s called now, it’s going to cut it, ever. But what do you do when you’re not home and away from your normal tools? Well I just use Paint.NET on my flash disk, but that’s another story.