Just picked this up on Friday, and I'd just about finished it by Sunday evening. Its a collection of R. Stallman's lecutures & articles on free software, copyright, copyleft, the GNU license and so on. Recommended with anyone with even a passing interest in the free software movement. You will be much richer (intellectually) for […]
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Ok, ok, I debated putting this here, as this really is a *scripting* site, but as anyone who can look to the left can see, I'm too lazy to have my own blog, and I think this is of interest to web users/developers (plus, I think this would probably slip under most people's radar): Major […]
Unfortunately it looks like WROX press (they make those big red books with the ugly authors on the cover) is going out of business Story Here In my opinion they have put out some excellent books, esp. their "Professional" series. I use the Professional PHP 4 often. There will either be a good sale on […]
Well, for those that know me, its a known fact that I'm an obsessive book reader… so here are a couple scripting books I've been working my way through over the last few weeks: Windows NT/2000 ADSI Scripting for System Administration Ok, its VB & VBScript, but the best for scripting windows domain stuff.. a […]
Not a script, or even relating to it, but the 'Enhancing' section of this page is one of the most concise explanations I've seen of how to use Photoshop to coax a good photo out of a not-so-good photo. It's close to a good chunk of the evil things I did to photos on a […]
I really wish that someone had showed me something like this page when I was starting to learn PHP. I could have saved myself from writing a lot of really bad code. It's also got a really nice explanation of what changes are required of your code when register_globals is turned off. I'm slowly working […]
Like many users of MT, I use javascript to call a pop-up comment window. What I didn't realize though is that 11% of internet users don't use Javascript and it can cause problems for people who are disabled because their browsers don't support it. Mark has posted instructions on how to replace the code so […]
While my personal blog tool of choice is MovableType, this article, The Weblog Tool Roundup, offers up an interesting review of other options out there. (Via Meryl's Notes, a great resource of many things!)
Beginning in CSS is a little something I put together for a web design newsletter. There are some tips inside of it (in the large table) for beginners, intermediate users, and an advanced tip. Some stuff that I haven't shared here yet! But since I was *hired* as a scripty-goddess because of my css knowledge […]
There are a *ton* of amazing tips at evolt.org, a truly handy resource. The articl about IE 6 centering table content has a fast, easy & effective way to keep that from happening to your site! Thanks to Cheryl for pointing out the link!