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This article has some interesting perspectives:
With new features in the latest version of MySQL, like subqueries and a new binary format, the company has become a stronger competitor against much larger companies, and seems poised to bite into their revenues. Even more importantly, MySQL might actually spark some fundamental changes in the market.
My wife was browsing an automotive site and came across this error message. This is a top 100 type web site (I'll not embaress them by naming names). My wife had to laugh the message was so cryptic and cyber-geekish. Here's a sample:
The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.
Sounds pretty personal! (translation: "I hear you, but I refuse to listen")
It is pretty easy to customize your web server error messages. It's pretty embarrasing to have end users see text like this.
Error 403--Forbidden
From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:
10.4.4 403 Forbidden
The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it. Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD NOT be repeated. If the request method was not HEAD and the server wishes to make public why the request has not been fulfilled, it SHOULD describe the reason for the refusal in the entity. This status code is commonly used when the server does not wish to reveal exactly why the request has been refused, or when no other response is applicable.
A great review of RSS technology, and from a marketing perspective no less. Check out what Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble says:
If you do a marketing site and you don't have an RSS feed today you should be fired. I'll say it again. You should be fired if you do a marketing site without an RSS feed. Saying that RSS is only for geeks today is like saying in 1998 that the Web was only for geeks. No one knows how long this 'honeymoon' will last. But ride the wave - and get into search engines quickly, inexpensively - by submitting your RSS feeds to them.
Read full article: What You Need to Know About RSS
Need a replacement for phpBB due to the security issues that board has had? Here's a nice alternative many are opting for: PunBB.org
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A couple of great quotes from The Master's Artist:
Henri Nouwen writes this in Reflections on Theological Education: "Writing is a process by which we discover what lives in us. The writing itself reveals what is alive. The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware of before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know."
And a quote on writing to process and understand from A River Runs Through It.
"Later, when you're ready, tell the story of our family. Perhaps then you'll understand what happened."
From CNET News.com:
The clone is from a project called CentOS--Community Enterprise Operating System--one of several "Red Hat rebuilders" that have partially nullified Red Hat's business decision in 2003 to stop giving away its supported and certified product for free. CentOS and others--Lineox, White Box Linux, Tao Linux, X/OS Linux and Scientific Linux--all rebuild a copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux from the source code components Red Hat releases.
Looking for free fonts to use? Check out AbstractFonts.com.
From OneStat.com:
OneStat.com ( www.onestat.com ), the number one provider of real-time web analytics, today reported that Mozilla's browsers have a total global usage share of 8.45 percent.
Also we find that IE's market share has dropped to 87%.
Bottom line -- if you're writing web applications, targeting only IE is probably a bad bet.
This from Apple Pro: Tip of the Week:
Okay, you probably already know the ol’ Shift-Command-3 shortcut for taking a screen capture of your entire screen, and you may even know about Shift-Command-4, which gives you a crosshair cursor so you can choose which area of the screen you want to capture. But perhaps the coolest, most-secret hidden capture shortcut is Shift-Control-Command-3 (or 4), which, instead of creating a file on your desktop, copies the capture into your Clipboard memory, so you can paste it where you want. (I use this to paste screen captures right into Photoshop.)