September 2009
5 posts
Windows 7 Launch Parties
Cabel Sasser of Panic, a Macintosh Software Company (they Make transmit, which you may have used to FTP files), saw the promo video for Windows 7 Launch Parties produced by Microsoft. THe he made his own:
Throw a Windows 7 launch party!
Business Credit
Larry Cheng writes about a new web service called Cortera that lets businesses rate how other businesses do (and don’t) pay their bills.
Cheng believes that this puts business credit ratings back in the hands of small businesses in a few ways. Number one on his list:
Firstly, it enables the voice of the small business to be heard in the business credit world. Traditionally, commercial...
Voter Information Data Submission & Validation
The Voting information Project works with states to generate XML files of voter information that can easily weigh in at five hundred megabytes. These files are generated by IT resources in each state and need to conform to the Voting Information Data Specification. The issues this sort of distributed generation brings up range from large file handling and processing, end-user (generator) feedback,...
Managing Multiple Sites with Textpattern on Media...
Upload the new textpattern folder to the /domains/ folder on your Grid Server. Inside that folder you should have sites, textpattern, rpc, and css.php.
Inside the sites folder, create the Sites you want to use according to the README file. Your completed config.php file in the /private/ folder should look something like this:
$txpcfg['db'] = 'dbXXX_signalfade';
$txpcfg['user'] =...
HTML5
HTML 5 is the next big spec release of X/HTML and it has the web industry buzzing. XHTML was supposed to increment to v2, but got bogged down at the w3c and became a spec written in a vacuum of theoreticals. XHTML is now, for all intents and purposes, dead.
Hixie, at the WhatWG, took over the HTML 5 spec/name and has become the benevolent dictator of that spec. Because of this, we’re seeing...