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Photoshop Complaint
I won't lie, I don't know much about Photoshop. I've recently installed version 9.0 (or CS2 if you're into letters) and among other gripes I have about how things work now, hex color values are in lowercase.
I've never used lowercase hex values, and I don't think I ever plan to (until the W3C requires them to be valid, which they will do just to spite me).
Is there anyway to change this back to uppercase? #7d1e1c is ugly, and converting them all to caps later on is just wasting time.
I've never used lowercase hex values, and I don't think I ever plan to (until the W3C requires them to be valid, which they will do just to spite me).
Is there anyway to change this back to uppercase? #7d1e1c is ugly, and converting them all to caps later on is just wasting time.
Whitehat vs. Blackhat
This week's A List Apart has a really interesting article about accessibility and search engine optimization. To sum it up, whitehat search engine optimization is more effective than blackhat search engine optimization. What exactly is the difference between whitehat and blackhat and why should you care? Read More
Pythagorean Wins for the NFL
This article has nothing to do with web development, search engines, or accessible design. But if you like betting on football, please read on.
Pythagorean wins are the number of games a team should win based on three factors:
Pythagorean wins are the number of games a team should win based on three factors:
- the number of games they've played
- the number points they've scored
- the number of points they've given up
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Fonts on the Web
As we all know, there are only a couple of reliable fonts for the Web these days (and I suppose the ever-growing Linux crowd that becomes even less true everyday). Of course I'm speaking of the basic fonts that everyone seems to have: Arial, Times, etc. My question is this, since we only have a limited number of fonts that are cross-platform available, why can't they all be good ones? Read More
Adam Bosworth from Google
Over at ACMQueue, there's a great article by Adam Bosworth from Google called Learning from THE WEB
Adam's primary points are:
In fact, Adam's article reminds me a lot of Eric S. Raymond's Basics of the Unix Philosophy from his book The Art of UNIX Programming (which everyone should own!)
Adam's primary points are:
- Simple, relaxed, sloppily extensible text formats and protocols often work better than complex and efficient binary ones.
- It is worth making things simple enough that one can harness Moore's law in parallel
- It is acceptable to be stale much of the time.
- The wisdom of crowds works amazingly well.
Read the whole article.
In fact, Adam's article reminds me a lot of Eric S. Raymond's Basics of the Unix Philosophy from his book The Art of UNIX Programming (which everyone should own!)
DVR (3 of 3): Software
In this first two parts of this communiqué covered the hardware and operating system I used on my custom DVR or media PC. This final installment about building my DVR will cover the software I used and configured to create the DVR functionality. You can probably look forward to one final communiqué about my media PC to wrap things up and to show off some pictures of the final configuration. Read More
DVR (2 of 3): Operating System
In the first part of this communiqué series I discussed some of the overall motivation I had for this project, and what hardware I chose to use. If you are thinking about setting up a computer for a DVR, or complete media center (which is what I did), it is a good place to get some suggestions for hardware. However, right now I am going to discuss how I chose the operating system for my media PC, and some useful information about setting it up. Read More
DVR (1 of 3): Hardware
This summer I took it on myself to set up an alternative to the standard tube-based television setup that included a DVD player, cable box, VCR and receiver. Not owning anything other than a receiver, I did not want to invest money in such bulky and uncustomizable hardware. I also wanted to be able to watch DVDs at DVD resolution (720x480 vs. 640x480) and I wanted better color reproduction than most TVs had to offer. I ended up building a custom computer-based setup using the open source software package MythTV, and I have been loving it ever since. Read More
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Radio iMarc
Dave Tufts, iMarc's director of technology will be featured on Worcester radio program, WPI Venture Forum
WPI Venture Forum airs on WTAG, 580AM between 5pm and 7pm on Saturdays. The program is a "talk show of entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs".
Mr. Tufts will be the featured guest during the first hour (5pm-6pm) on Saturday November 12, 2005. He will discuss the process of growing a web development company, open source technology, and other day-to-day issues facing a small internet business.
If you find yourself in central Massachusetts on Saturday, Nov 12, tune in to 580AM.
WPI Venture Forum airs on WTAG, 580AM between 5pm and 7pm on Saturdays. The program is a "talk show of entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs".
Mr. Tufts will be the featured guest during the first hour (5pm-6pm) on Saturday November 12, 2005. He will discuss the process of growing a web development company, open source technology, and other day-to-day issues facing a small internet business.
If you find yourself in central Massachusetts on Saturday, Nov 12, tune in to 580AM.
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FreeBSD: It's What Your Server Wants
I'll admit it. I'm in love with FreeBSD.
FreeBSD is a Unix operating system that runs especially well on generic Intel-compatible hardware.
FreeBSD doesn't do anything special. In fact, anything I can do on my favorite OS, you can do on yours. So, what's so great about FreeBSD? It just works. In fact, it always works. It never stops working. After using FreeBSD on all my web servers for the past 6 years, I really appreciate how little time I spend in the server room, messing with system configurations, plugging security holes, running out of system resources, and buying new hardware just to serve up a bunch of web sites.
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FreeBSD is a Unix operating system that runs especially well on generic Intel-compatible hardware.
FreeBSD doesn't do anything special. In fact, anything I can do on my favorite OS, you can do on yours. So, what's so great about FreeBSD? It just works. In fact, it always works. It never stops working. After using FreeBSD on all my web servers for the past 6 years, I really appreciate how little time I spend in the server room, messing with system configurations, plugging security holes, running out of system resources, and buying new hardware just to serve up a bunch of web sites.
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