A tutorial attempting to teach Python in 10 minutes.
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Python in 10 minutes
March 31st, 2008Great List of Photoshop video tutorials
March 31st, 200880 Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials: speed painting, design of buttons and interfaces, beauty retouching, digital matte painting, photo manipulation, effects and much more.
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Someone is going to make a fortune on the problem of email overload
March 28th, 2008Great article on the problems of being more easily contactable in the internet age. The author talks about email bankruptcy (deleting an overloaded inbox and starting again) and the issue of his current inbox of 2000+ messages.
Note to self: read over the comments …
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And here is a related presentation:
and the vid of the presentation …
Re-running all website statistics in cpanel
March 28th, 2008Found this:
for i in `ls /var/cpanel/users`;do /scripts/runweblogs $i;done
here:
Executing /scripts/runweblogs for all users in cpanel
Also while on the subject of cpanel … if you are a bit of a server n00b like me … this restarts the cron service …
service crond restart
SPF records on a cPanel Server
March 25th, 2008Getting email delivered can be a problem without, among other things, an SPF (Sender Policy Framework) record.
Just found this:
how to install SPF records on a cPanel server
The whole site looks really useful.
Note to self: check back there and do some reading.
Compiled list of the best WordPress Plugins
March 24th, 2008There are lots of lists of the best WordPress Plugins. This article compiles the data from 48 lists – which mention 280 plugins in total – and creates a list of the top 30. A good place to start before installing something random.
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Perl 5.10 Overview
March 24th, 2008What is new and cool in Perl 5.10 …
Reasons for switching back to PHP from Ruby on Rails – one perspective …
March 23rd, 2008Great article by the developer of CD Baby on changing back to PHP after working with Ruby on Rails. Not a diss on Rails – he just states several reasons why he found it easier to return to PHP. Good perspective.
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Save yourself some work: important PHP classes/libraries/projects for developers
March 22nd, 2008From sending mail with attachments to fetching content via RSS to sending a trackback – a list of common coding tasks that is solved with good existing code.
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One they didn’t mention and that I use all the time is Manuel Lemos’ HTTP Protocol Client – complete with lots of examples!
Killing MySQL Database Perormance
March 22nd, 2008Great presentation reviewing how to kill database performance.