http://airbnb.com/ – “Rent nightly from real people in 809 cities in 71 countries.”
http://www.popcuts.com/ – “Every time a song you bought sells, you get a cut of the proceeds.”
http://bountii.com/ – “Find a lower price on any of the products below and we’ll pay you the Bountii.”
People are discussing whether it’s a complete copy of maxmind’s free database, but some are saying it’s not, either way nothing beats free.
I’ve been following some rants on hacker news and reddit dealing with CSS vs Tables, read in this order when you get a chance:
Why CSS should not be used for layout
http://www.flownet.com/ron/css-rant.html
Why CSS Should Be Used for Layout
http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/why-css-should-be-used-for-layout
Don’t Blame CSS For Your Incompetence
http://www.jemjabella.co.uk/blog/dont-blame-css-for-your-incompetence
The last article sums it all up in my opinion.
The Pelago offices are safe from the fire, although we are only a block away from the evacuation warning boundaries. We are ready to unplug the servers and load up the cars if we have to. Our Intervals data centers are in Houston, so there are no worries about interrupted service for our customers. Here are some links to fire updates (note: some of the links may be spotty due to the fires):
Here’s a great time-saver extension. Toolbar Buttons is perfect for adding tough-to-find Firefox functions. They’re there BUT you have dig deep within Tools > Options to get to them. Need to quickly disable javascript, flash and images with just three quick clicks? No problem, just drag and drop the buttons. Here is my current setup:
A lot of people are familiar with PHP’s functions, and though Javascript functions are often quite similar, some functions may be missing or addressed differently. The Javascript implementations should be as compliant with the PHP versions as possible, a good indication is that the PHP function manual could also apply to the Javascript version.
UPDATE: Using this article at http://www.hagrin.com/315/installing-mcrypt-a-godaddy-linux-virtual-dedicated-server-vds I was able to install mcrypt on a Godaddy Virtual Dedicated Server in just a few steps:
We recently deployed a web site using GoDaddy’s virtual dedicated server. Everything about the default PHP installation was fine, except that libmcrypt was not available. When I asked the godaddy support staff “How do we enable libmcrypt for PHP?” their response was far from helpful:
Thank you for contacting Server Support. Unfortunately 3rd party installations and configurations are not supported.
Rather than argue with the support team about what constitutes a 3rd party installation, I decided to google around and see if I could do it myself. Hours later, I succeeded. Here are the steps for installing libmcrypt:
That’s it! To confirm a successful install, just run phpinfo() and look for the mcrypt section
There’s a bug with 2.5 that doesn’t allow you to moderate comments. The problem is with the _wp_get_comment_list function and how it retrieves counts from the database specifically a missing column index. Running this line on your database should fix the problem:
ALTER TABLE wp_comments ADD INDEX ( comment_date_gmt );
Want to watch higher quality YouTube videos?
Add &fmt=18 to the last part of the URL. You won’t see DVD quality video but you’ll see a great difference from whats currently available.
Edit: Want to make it even easier? This GM script does it for you.
So I was working away at localizing some pages and for some reason they all worked except tr_TR. What was the problem? The server had an outdated PHP installation with a bug that lowercases class names which ends a fatal error.
Why it it so? After some investigations I came across this bug and came to the conclusion that in the Turkish language, the latin i is not equal to capital latin i.
AWESOME!
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