Month: August 2011
Joey Trapp – Installing CakePHP Sphinx Documentation
Search the CakePHP docs locally, yes please.
CSS-Tricks – Functional CSS Tabs Revisited
The idea of "CSS Tabs" has been around for a long time. If you Google it, a lot of what you get is styled CSS tabs, but less stuff on the building an actually functional tabbed area. At least, functional in the sense as we think of tabbed areas today: click a tab, see a […]
The Atlantic – Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don’t Know How to Use CTRL+F
It always astonishes how many people who use the computer every day for a large part of their daily lives know almost zero shortcuts.
Ars Technica – Does Apotheker need an apothecary? Why HP is exiting the PC business
Really smart take on this story by Ars.
Ars Technica – Does not compute: court says only hard math is patentable
The court seems to be trying to not rule against all software patents while acknowledging they are broken and need to be reformed.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Open WiFi and Liability for Copyright Infringement: Setting the Record Straight
The line about “online debates” had me giggling.
Neal Poole – Cross-Site Scripting via Error Reporting Notices in PHP
Though to be fair you probably shouldn’t be using display_errors in a production site.
Ars Technica – Wikipedia editors voting on plan to “shutter” violent and sexual images
Not a bad plan, it’s a reasonable balance between still providing a visual representation of whatever and making it easier for people who don’t want to be “shocked” at the sight of the image.
Groklaw – Google Reexam Requests Devastating to Lodsys
What’s interesting about this story is the suspicion that Google and Apple had not previously filed re-examination requests because their agreements with Lodsys prevented such an action, apparently not so at least for Google.
Programmers Stack Exchange – Should UTF-16 be considered harmful?
The short answer is yes, the long answer is well go read the long answer.