Birth of the regex sandbox I decided today to do a proper blog post to explain my reasons for creating regex sandboxes. I don’t often write a lot of words on this blog partly because I’m not very good a making long meaningful sentences and partly because I think the point can often be made in less words. Hopefully this will be useful for someone writing filters
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Regular expression sandboxing – Gareth Heyes
The mini SUV segment in India is untouched & an untapped territory but a one having huge potential. A car that has compact dimensions (less than 4 meters), seats 5, has decent amount of luggage space & is easy to drive around town with an efficient engine and good price tag – Doesn’t that sound tempting?
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Rendering – Mahindra mini SUV
Today’s tutorial, From Concept to Working Prototype with Flash Catalyst , is all about easing the tension between designing and developing. In the first of our new three-part series, author Toby Tremayne takes Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 for a spin in order to show us how these sometimes mutually exclusive elements can operate harmoniously with a minimum of fuss.
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From Concept to Working Prototype with Flash Catalyst
SAN ANTONIO ? May 04, 2010 ? NewTek, manufacturer of industry-leading video and 3D animation products, today announced that the WNBA and NBA Development League (NBA D-League) – the National Basketball Association’s official minor league – will use newly launched NewTek TriCaster™ TCXD850 high definition/standard definition (HD/SD) portable live production system, to produce and deliver a full season of live games, online in HD for the first time, on WNBA.com and NBA.com/dleague
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WNBA and NBA Choose NewTek TriCaster to Produce/Stream Full Season of Live Games
(Cross-posted on the Google Online Security Blog ) We want Googlers to have a firm understanding of the threats our services face, as well as how to help protect against those threats. We work toward these goals in a variety of ways, including security training for new engineers, technical presentations about security, and other types of documentation. We also use codelabs — interactive programming tutorials that walk participants through specific programming tasks
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Do know evil
May 10 – 14 2010. Free, online sessions for PHP developers interested in learning about the Adobe Flash Platform, including: What’s New in Flash Builder 4 for PHP Developers; Using Advanced Features with Flex & PHP ; and A Basic CRUD Application with Zend_AMF and Flex 4
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Adobe Developer Week Starts May 10, 2010 – Zend Developer Zone
May The Fourth Be With You. (May 4th) Today, apparently is Star Wars day so it seems like the ideal time to do a Photoshop tut on how to make a Star Wars type text effect. It’s probably not one you’ll use too often, it’s just for a bit of fun but we’ll be looking at layer effects and blending that you might find useful for other projects. 1.
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Happy Star Wars Day & How To Make A Star Wars Text Effect In Photoshop
Here’s a new initiative from Amnesty International: Amnesty International is releasing a social network that watches over tyrannical leaders from all over the world who attack Human Rights. This way, it seeks to form a global community of Human Rights defenders, making the contact between the public and Amnesty’s promoting causes easier. This network will have the designation of Tyrannybook .
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Tracking tyranny
Residents in Ruwa are in a state of shock and disbelief after an 8-year-old girl was raped, killed and dumped in nearby fields. Even Grade Seven children are now accompanied to the Thorncroft School, for the fear that anything can happen. One prominent name behind all this is a 22-year-old man called Jeremiah Mazarura alias Joro
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Courts should stand tough against the spirit of Joro
Social and political commentator, Psychology Maziwisa, suggests that the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is taking the support of Zimbabweans for granted, and that they need to reassess their priorities. Here is his latest article: MDC doesn’t get it Taking things for granted has for a very long time been the hallmark of African politics and apparently the MDC is no exception.
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Support for MDC is lessening
PHP version 5.4 will most likely include the PHP-FPM patch right in the core, which is great news for those of us who like to run PHP under the nginx web server. You may be asking, “What is PHP-FPM, and why should I care?” PHP-FPM is a patch for PHP core that handles the starting, stopping, and restarting of FastCGI processes as needed. This is important because nginx can only interface with PHP via FastCGI, unlike Apache, which loads the whole PHP environment right into itself.
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PHP with nginx is about to Become a Lot Easier – SitePoint » PHP
PHP version 5.4 will most likely include the PHP-FPM patch right in the core, which is great news for those of us who like to run PHP under the nginx web server. You may be asking, “What is PHP-FPM, and why should I care?” PHP-FPM is a patch for PHP core that handles the starting, stopping, and restarting of FastCGI processes as needed
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PHP with nginx is about to Become a Lot Easier
Centering an absolutely positioned element is a CSS challenge that occurs now and then. The solutions seem obvious once I’ve done it, but I still find myself googling the problem every few months. Horizontally centering a static element in CSS is normally handled by setting the left and right margins to auto , for example: #myelement { margin: 0 auto; } However, this won’t work on an absolutely positioned element
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How to Center an Absolutely Positioned Element Using CSS
When I started my career as a web developer in the nineties, the convention of the day was a two-column approach: a table-based layout with a vertical navigation menu on the left-hand side, and a content column. These days we’re more likely to see the main navigation in a horizontal configuration across the top, starting on the left.
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Left-Leaning Layout Conventions Rule!
Webmaster Level: All In this final installation in our URL removal series, let’s talk about following up on your removal requests, as well as when not to use Google’s URL removal tool. If you haven’t already, I recommend reading the previous posts in this series: Part I: Removing URLs & directories Part II: Removing & updating cached content Part III: Removing content you don’t own Companion post: Managing what information is available about you online Understanding the status of your requests Once you’ve submitted a removal request, it will appear in your list of requests. You can check the status of your requests at any time to see whether the content has been removed, or whether the request is still or pending or was denied
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URL removal explained, Part IV: Tracking your requests & what not to remove
I’ve written about collection initializers on my blog before , but I thought I’d catch up with the VB Team to tell me more about how they really work.
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Channel 9 Interview: Array and Collection Initializers in Visual Basic 2010 (Beth Massi, Spotty Bowles)
The Bokeh effect is very popular online at the moment, both in photography and as background images in web design. It’s not a new phenomenon. It is reported to have first been popularized in Photo Techniques magazine in 1997.
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When Bokeh Meets Web Design: Stylishly Out Of Focus Backgrounds
Wez Furlong received a copy of PHP: The Good Parts as a thank you for his participation as a technical reviewer, and loaned it to me for a read. After reading it, I wanted to put together a brief review of the book for those who might be interested in this new title from O’Reilly
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PHP: The Good Parts – Book Review – Brandon Savage
The results are in from last week’s SitePoint poll . We asked: “What is your primary web development browser?” 3,126 people voted: 67.7% use Firefox 20.1% use Chrome or Safari 8.5% use Internet Explorer 3.7% use Opera We all expected Firefox to do well
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Firefox Remains the Most Popular Development Browser
Find my Xdebug download wizard London, UK Monday, May 3rd 2010, 10:00 BST Installing Xdebug seems to be a problem for some users. The main trouble is for Windows users that don’t know which file to download. Over the past few days I’ve worked on a wizard that analyses phpinfo()’s output and for Windows users suggests: which file to download where to put the file which php.ini file to modify, and how For Unix users, it explains: which source tarball to download how to compile which php.ini file to modify, and how I hope this makes it a bit easier to get going with Xdebug
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Find my Xdebug download wizard – Derick Rethans