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Happy Valentine's Day! And welcome to the latest issue of the Developer Shed newsletter. Think of this as our valentine to you. Okay, so it may not be the most romantic thing in the world, but it's full of information that you can use to help you get more work done and make your job easier. Try getting that out of a box of chocolates! Let me direct your attention first to the latest article we're highlighting from eWeek. If you're a reseller, you'll want to check it out; it's a slide show of the 12 executives who've done the most for the channel this past year. It starts with Michael Dell and his 180 degree turnaround to let Dell computers be sold in the channel rather than directly through the company, as had been done up until now. Check out the piece and find out who the other 11 executives are and what they did to deserve the honor. And don't forget to check out the great selection of articles we have for you this week. Dev Shed readers will enjoy our continuing series on Python. We also wrap up our series on destructors and talk about more ways to use Yahoo Web Services with PHP. Meanwhile, readers of ASP Free continued their C education, gained an understanding of objects and learned how to convert images losslessly in C#. The web designers eagerly reading Dev Articles were not disappointed this week. We continued our series on JavaScript Objects and got into Entities in our beginning HTML series. We also wrapped up our three-part series on building corner effects with transparent background images. Meanwhile, hardware enthusiasts enjoyed the reviews we ran about an Epson multimedia device and a computer case that's cool in more ways than one. They also learned how to get the most out of their audio gadget storage. The professionals over at SEO Chat got heavy doses of both Google and Yahoo this week. For the former, we talked about Google's charity initiatives; for the latter, we covered the latest news of Microsoft's proposal to purchase Yahoo. Yahoo rejected it, and we took a look at where things might go from here. We rounded out the week with an article on how to optimize your press releases for search engines. Finally, for you do-it-yourselfers, we've highlighted a number of interesting tutorials on Tutorialized. Learn how to make dark bronze skin tones in Photoshop (instant tan!), create water reflections, install Apache Web Server on Windows Vista, and more! As always, thanks for reading. Until next week,Developer Shed Staff |
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Executing Destructors Manually in PHP 5 by Alejandro Gervasio, 2008-02-13 -- Welcome to the final chapter of the series “Understanding Destructors in PHP 5.” In consonance with this article’s title, this series walks you through the basics of utilizing class destructors in object-based applications and also provides you with a decent number of hands-on examples, so you can start incorporating these useful methods into your PHP 5 classes with minor efforts. Read the full article. Using Yahoo Web Services to Perform Searches with an Object-Oriented Approach by Alejandro Gervasio, 2008-02-12 -- If you’re a PHP developer who wants to take the first steps toward building web applications that interact with specific web services, in this article series you’ll find an approachable guide to implementing some of the most useful search services provided by Yahoo! by using a few simple PHP scripts. Read the full article. Python Strings: Spinning Yarns by James Payne, 2008-02-11 -- As the students used to say to Mr. Kotter: "Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back." In our previous article we talked some more about how to manipulate strings in Python, leaving off with indexing and slicing. Here, we will pick up again with slicing, using it to “change” the contents of a string. Read the full article. Accounts, Authentication, and Authorization by O'Reilly Media, 2008-02-07 -- Authentication and authorization are two of the most vital functions on a network; if they aren't working properly, nobody will be able to get anything done. This article, the first part in a four-part series, explains how to handle authentication and authorization in Samba. It is excerpted from chapter five of Using Samba, Third Edition, written by Gerald Carter, Jay Ts and Robert Eckstein (O'Reilly, 2007; ISBN: 0596007698). Copyright © 2007 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media. Read the full article. |
Lossless Image Converting in C# by Barzan "Tony" Antal, 2008-02-13 -- Images can be easily categorized into love-hate relationships when it comes to actually working with them from the programmer’s point of view. Nowadays images are a must in almost every Windows application and we tend to run into images quite often. In this series we are going to get into the details of image resizing and conversion. Read the full article. Understanding Objects by Nilpo, 2008-02-12 -- An object is an abstract term used to describe a set of methods, properties, and events that have a similar or related purpose. These pieces are typically intended to work together and are distributed as such. Read the full article. C: Operators by James Payne, 2008-02-11 -- In our last article we left off discussing user input and variables in C. In this episode we will cover some of the operators available to you and how to manipulate data with them. Read the full article. MapPoint Web Service Find APIs by O'Reilly Media, 2008-02-07 -- This article, the first part of a five-part series, discusses the Find Service, one of the four core components of the MapPoint Web Service. It is excerpted from chapter six of the book Programming MapPoint in .NET, written by Chandu Thota (O'Reilly; ISBN: 0596009062). Copyright © 2007 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media. Read the full article. |
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HTML: Working with Special Characters by James Payne, 2008-02-13 -- In the last article we discussed formatting, colors, and working with backgrounds. In this episode, we'll learn how to work with links and special characters, called Entities, in HTML. Read the full article. Styling Web Page Headers with Transparent Background Images by Alejandro Gervasio, 2008-02-12 -- Welcome to the last installment of the series “Building Corner Effects with Transparent Background Images.” This series, which is comprised of three parts, guides you through the process of building rounded and angled corners, in addition to creating other appealing effects, which can be easily applied to one of more elements of a web page to improve its overall visual presentation. Read the full article. Javascript Objects: More Date Methods by James Payne, 2008-02-11 -- We previously left off discussing a smattering of JavaScript Date Objects. In this tutorial we will continue the discussion, picking up with the GetFullYear() Method. There are a ton of Date methods, so let's get started. Read the full article. URLs, Filters and the Rails Action Controller by O'Reilly Media, 2008-02-07 -- In this third part of a four-part series on the Rails Action Controller, you will learn how to generate URLs dynamically, how to log with filters, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter four of the Rails Cookbook, written by Rob Orsini (O'Reilly, 2007; ISBN: 0596527314). Copyright © 2007 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media. Read the full article. |
Getting the Most out of Your Audio Gadget Storage by Barzan "Tony" Antal, 2008-02-13 -- There are numerous ways to maximize the storage capabilities on your multimedia gadget. Some are good and some are bad. This article will examine the most economical ways to expand memory in your audio gadget. Read on for this helpful tutorial. Read the full article. Cooler Master 690 by jkabaseball, 2008-02-12 -- At first glance, a computer case would seem like an inessential part of the computer as a whole. But this would fail to take into account some very crucial aspects of computer cases that help to maximize overall computer performance. This article will look at the 690 from Cooler Master, one of the top of the line case makers. Read on to see how this version will impact the case industry. Read the full article. Epson P5000: 80 GB Multimedia Device by Joe Eitel, 2008-02-11 -- In the world of digital photography, it's not always easy to lug around a bulky laptop to various photo shoot locations. This is the problem that Epson planned to solve when creating their line of portable multimedia devices. This review will specifically examine the P5000, so keep reading and take a look at a very interesting product. Read the full article. ASUS P5N-E SLI by jkabaseball, 2008-02-07 -- Today we get to take a look at the ASUS P5N-E SLI. Asus makes great products. We have seen a few different motherboards from them, as well as their wireless routers. So far, all of the reviews have concluded that these are solid products. I have a feeling that this motherboard won’t disappoint us. Read on to find out. Read the full article. |
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Optimizing Your Press Releases by Terri Wells, 2008-02-13 -- If you look at a press release through the lens of an SEO, what you see is not a piece a paper; it’s potentially a mini web site. From this perspective, the humble press release takes on a whole new life. In this article, I’ll discuss a number of ideas that will give your press releases much more impact. Read the full article. Yahoo Rejects Microsoft Bid by Terri Wells, 2008-02-12 -- Just one week after Microsoft made its surprising $44.6 billion cash and stock bid to purchase Yahoo, the venerable search engine rejected the bid. As if to add insult to injury, Yahoo’s board of directors agreed unanimously. Someone get me some popcorn; the fight is just beginning. Read the full article. Google Finds New Way to Give by Terri Wells, 2008-02-11 -- Google recently announced that Google.org, a hybrid philanthropy organization, will be working on five initiatives to address some of the world's most urgent problems. The news gained attention not only for the problems the organization chose to address, but the way in which they're being addressed. Read the full article. |
More Malware? by Michael Lowry, 2008-02-13 -- Malware has grown to the point where the attackers no longer seek out the victims directly through email, but instead let the victim come to them through an enticing website advertisement. They hide within the sites like a crime syndicate using waste management as a front to run their criminal organization, only these guys aren't as lovable as Tony Soprano. Read the full article. File Sharing, Break It Down! by Michael Lowry, 2008-02-06 -- For all the Internet has done to benefit both business and the individual, there are some corporations that would have you think the Internet has been the biggest burden to capitalism since Karl Marx. They think of it as a world that caters to thieves and ne'erdowells, while they, being oh so chaste, are forced to survive without rules or protection of any kind. It's time we see how dangerous this “Internet” really is when it comes to intellectual property rights. Read the full article. Registrar Responsibility by Michael Lowry, 2008-01-30 -- Imagine that you own a company that provides a service to customers who also run a business of some sort. Now, imagine that one of your customers has used your service to benefit their company in some illegal way. Should you have to take some of the blame because your product helped facilitate the illegal transgression? Domain registrars and web hosting companies have long been teetering on the edge of this cliff, mainly because “cybersquatting” techniques continue to grow. Read the full article. |
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Weird and Cool Latest Hacker Sport: Speedcabling You would think that everyone hates the rat's nest formed by all those wires behind your typical computer. Not Steven Schkolne. This IT professional took drudgery of untangling that mass of wires and turned it into a sport of sorts - speedcabling. Schkolne set up the first competition in an art gallery in Los Angeles. Competitors needed to untangle six Ethernet cables of various lengths in the fastest time. Schkolne prepared the tangled wires by first putting them together in a figure eight, and then running them through a clothes dryer for three minutes. "After that, they're pretty much how they appear in nature," he noted. The sport has its fine points. After you separate the wire, you have to hold the full cable above your head to show that it's untangled. After the cables are separated, they are tested to make sure they can still carry a network signal after being untangled - if they can't carry a signal, the competitor is disqualified. The winner of the first contest, Matthew Howell, received a $50 gift certificate for a local Italian restaurant. He credits his victory to techniques he learned while kneading pizza dough. New Coral Reef Found Thanks to Google Earth Normally you'd expect great ocean discoveries to be made from a ship. But Dr. Chris Simpson made his from his desktop computer with the help of Google Earth. And thanks to his sharp eyes, we now know about a set of coral reefs off the coast of western Australia that no one has ever seen before. To add icing to the cake, this particular type of coral reef is rare. "I felt like bloody Charles Darwin up here discovering these new reefs!" Dr. Simpson enthused. The coral reef specialist at West Australia's Department of Environment and Conservation explained that fringing coral reefs, the type he discovered, can only form off the coast of an arid location, where no rivers flow out into the water. The particular location in which he found the coral reef is very hard to reach and features turbid waters, massive tides, and crocodiles - just the things to discourage even the hardiest explorers. This is where using Google Earth came in handy; Dr. Simpson could examine the area without the risk of getting caught by the tide and/or being eaten. Almost as if in anticipation of the discovery, the previous week Australia's federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett announced an agreement to make an environmental assessment of the entire region in which Dr. Simpson found the reef. Happy Birthday Charles Darwin Charles Darwin was born 199 years ago this week, and by happy coincidence, his famous theory of evolution was first published in his book On the Origin of the Species 149 years ago this week. A number of festivities are planned next year for the 200th and 150th anniversaries respectively. But the British Research Council is starting things off a little early. Next month, it will launch a web site that addresses Darwin's legacy to science. It will focus on a different academic field each month, and discuss how that field has been inspired by evolutionary theory. "We want to focus on modern research and how it draws on Darwin's theory," notes Pat Middleton of the UK's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. Many sectors of society do not believe in Darwin's theory of evolution. Others blame things like social Darwinism for society's woes. But it cannot be denied that Darwin's theory of evolution is backed by a substantial body of evidence, and is responsible for many advances in our understanding of biology and our place in nature, to name just a couple of important areas. And the idea of evolution has come into common usage in areas far from the biological sciences, such as in chip design (i.e. Moore's Law). |
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