Here is a shirt-ish list of sites and tools that may be of use to you if you are planning on developing a site or application for the web. Many of these have RSS feeds that I highly recommend subscribing to!
Archive for July, 2007
I just stumbled upon the software Meta Tracker and I’m quite excited by it. On the surface it’s a cross-desktop (GNOME, KDE, Xfce, etc) desktop search engine. Looking at the features, though, is what makes me want to give it a more thorough inspection.
Recently I’ve been thinking about what the differences are between web sites and web applications, if any, and what would be some examples for each. I know that many people, myself included, tend to use the two terms synonymously but after thinking on it, I believe this is a real difference there which hinges on the purpose of the thing and what it is used for.
I’ve been using Google Desktop for Linux for almost a week now so I thought I’d write little review on it for people wondering what it’s like.
I know there are probably tons of ways to download a copy of a YouTube video but this is the method I prefer and I thought I’d share. The basic idea is that we have a simple shell script that extracts the Flash video information from YouTube and uses ffmpeg to convert it into an XviD AVI file with MP3 audio.
Quick little tip from me today. In the last week I’ve run into this problem twice: when using a <textarea> to form the basis of a content management system, you have to pay attention to whether or not forms will be entered into it. If you don’t you might come across a strange problem where the content that is currently being edited (entered into the textarea) will itself contain a </textarea>. A browser will interpret this as the closing of the original textarea tag and run the rest of the content as the rest of the content editing form, which is clearly going to cause problems. The solution to this problem is ridiculously simple.