Autor: Tim Strehle
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Smileys turn 21
Nice summary of the „Joke“ Conversation Thread in which the 🙂 Was Invented by Scott E Fahlman in September 1982…
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Internet Explorer XMP JPEG display bug
Finally, someone else realises that there’s a nasty bug in Microsoft IE related to Adobe XMP as written by Photoshop 7. Steven Frank writes: „Windows versions of Internet Explorer, mostly 5.5 and 6.0 get thoroughly confused by a file that identifies itself as .jpg but contains XML. When you try to load one of these…
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More pleasant surprises, please
Jon Udell: „Software should recognize our patterns and make our lives easier.“
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Writing Socket Servers in PHP
Tutorials and examples: Zend.com: Writing Socket Servers in PHP Dev Shed – Socket Programming With PHP ONLamp.com: Introduction to Socket Programming with PHP Micah Lansing: MicahServer
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Java trends: Scripting languages to the forefront
Let the Java experts talk about PHP: „You can be very clever with some scripting languages and do things you can’t do with regular Java,“ said Mukund Balasubramanian, CTO of Redwood City, CA-based Infravio, a Java and Web services integrator. „If you know how to use a good scripting language, you can save a lot…
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Why isn’t my time zone highlighted on the world map?
Raymond Chen: „The Indian government threatened to ban all Microsoft software from the country because we assigned a disputed region to Pakistan in the time zone map.“
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Five Habits for Successful Regular Expressions
Tony Stubblebine on ONLamp.com: „1. Use Whitespace and Comments 2. Write Tests 3. Group the Alternation Operator 4. Use Lazy Quantifiers 5. Use Available Delimiters“
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PHPeclipse.de
PHPEclipse.de has (German) installation instructions for PHP support within the Eclipse IDE.
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Tablet PC at school
I’d love to go to school again: „The Diocese of Columbus Department of Education is undertaking one of the first wide-scale deployments of Tablet PC technology in an educational environment. They have partnered with HP and their TC1000 Tablet PC.“
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Mindmeld
Mindmeld seems to have a rather narrow focus, but the description sounds nice (and it’s free software): „Mindmeld is an enterprise-capable knowledge-sharing system. It is an effective tool for any web community that needs to capture and share information, and is unique in that the knowledgebase grows smarter every time it’s used. It only knows…