Topic: General

The following posts are filed under General.

Buy 5 SitePoint books for US$29.95 to help the Aussies!

SitePoint is raising money to help the victims of the recent Victorian bushfires in Australia with a 5-for-1 book sale! That means you can obtain 5 books for only US$29.95! One comment. Read the complete article »


Get a free copy of The Art & Science of CSS!

SitePoint has launched a Twitaway (Twitter giveaway), meaning you can get a FREE copy of The Art & Science of CSS! 2 comments. Read the complete article »


A List Apart Web Design Survey 2008

I have just taken A List Apart’s Web Design Survey 2008, a survey for web designers. Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


Opera and Safari have passed Acid3

My heartiest congratulations to Opera and WebKit for scoring 100/100 in the Acid3 test that was released just a couple weeks ago (or so)!
But I’m still sticking with Firefox because it’s still so lovely. Well, I hope Firefox 3 catches up with the first two browsers. I can’t wait
And I don’t think even [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


IE8 will be standards-compliant by default

This is very late, but as the adage goes, it’s better late than never…
The Internet Explorer development team has FINALLY decided to make IE8 render according to W3C standards by default!
Now, you may be thinking, hot damn that’s gonna be a long wait, and when will IE6 be finally phased out? Well, the latter question [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


GIMP 2.4 released

GIMP 2.4 has finally emerged from the development phase, and gone gold! I’ve just upgraded. From how I see it, the interface doesn’t seem to have been improved much besides the icons though. There’s a handful of new features in GIMP 2.4, some of which I find useful, like scalable bitmap brushes, foreground object selection, [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


Thinking of starting a webcomic

So yesterday I was discussing pet rocks with a couple of friends. First, I got the idea of getting a pet rock, keeping and nurturing it. Next I was thinking of starting a webcomic based on rocks.
Once I gather a bit of info on how to start and run a webcomic, I might begin drawing [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


Learned Python… with no basic knowledge

If you’re not a programmer, you won’t be able to understand half of this post. You could try though, but I’m not forcing anyone.
The gist of this whole post was that all I did was write a few painfully simple lines of Python, have an idea to run it through the parser, do so, and [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


RSS icons galore

Brian of Design Bliss recently wrote a post collecting over 35 styles of RSS icons that are worth looking at.
My favorite has to be the ones by snap2objects:

You can also see 16-by-16 RSS icons in my feed links widget along with a background overlay icon. Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


PHP 4 end of life announcement

The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »