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Entries from February 2008

Hacking Flickr Manager 1.5.1

February 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments · CSS/WebDesign

I am looking at moving all of the photos on an existing site over to Flickr. The plan is to convert the site over to WordPress and use the images from Flickr so I wanted an easy way to insert photos. I was looking for something that would be as simple to use as ImageManager [...]

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A quick review of two Related Posts plugins for WordPress

February 24th, 2008 · No Comments · WordPress

 Mitcho found a post I wrote about adding Related Posts to a WordPress blog and said:
I would recommend to you and your readers a plugin I wrote, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. It’s similar in functionality, but has been built with admin-friendliness in mind, and doesn’t require you to edit your theme files. Check it [...]

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Test your web design in different browsers - Browsershots

February 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · CSS/WebDesign

 

bookmark this on del.icio.us - first posted by lordpet to browser webdesign tools design test - more about this bookmark…

Test your web design in different browsers - Browsershotslordpet Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:30:00 GMT
This is an interesting site but do not expect quick results from the web site. It creates [...]

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Share This (jQuery): a WordPress plugin » Semicolon

February 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment · CSS/WebDesign

Today I ran across Bennett’s jQuery version of the Share This plugin. By using plugins based on jQuery rather than Prototype library, I reduced the load time for several web sites. I still had one web site that used the Prototype library and I suspected it was because of the Share This plugin. By switching [...]

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FileZilla Portable 3.0.6 Released

February 12th, 2008 · No Comments · OpenSource

FileZilla Portable 3.0.6 has been released. FileZilla Portable is the popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your ftp client, server list and settings with you. This new release updates FileZilla to the latest version, works with Notepad++ Portable and other portable editors when moving between PCs, has an [...]

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Truecrypt 5.0

February 6th, 2008 · No Comments · OpenSource

We are pleased to announce that TrueCrypt 5.0 has been released. Among the new features are the ability to encrypt a system partition or entire system drive (i.e. a drive where Windows is installed) with pre-boot authentication, pipelined operations increasing read/write speed by up to 100%, Mac OS X version, graphical interface for the Linux [...]

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Nimble Method: Garbage Collection is Why Ruby on Rails is Slow: Patches to Improve Performance 5x; Memory Profiling

February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Linux, OpenSource

 

The News: Ruby on Rails performance is dominated by garbage collection. We present a set of patches to greatly improve Rails performance and show how to profile memory usage to get further performance gains.

What’s at Stake: Rails is slow for many uses and did not lend itself well to optimization. Significant performance gains could only [...]

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KeePassX - The Official KeePassX Homepage

February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Linux, OpenSource

KeePassX - The Official KeePassX Homepage
KeePassX saves many different information e.g. user names, passwords, urls, attachmets and comments in one single database.
Yesterday I got around to installing KeePassX on my Centos server. The rpm version worked fine but I had to manually create a menu item. For fun I downloaded the new versions of the [...]

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