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 <title>It's a free book on Adobe Flex3</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[SitePoint is giving away PDF copies of the book "Getting Started With Flex 3" for the next 60 days. All you need to do is complete a one-page quiz about Adobe Flex to access the download.
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:08:06 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>PureEdit a CMS for developers and coders</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[PureEdit is the first CMS that dramatically simplifies the back-end development of your website while giving you full control of the front-end design and programming. By allowing such uncommon flexibility, PureEdit empowers you to design web sites from the ground up, without forcing you to follow the narrow template rules you'll find elsewhere.
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:04:59 -0700</pubDate>
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 <description><![CDATA[Firefox 3 was released a few days ago and so far as a surfer I have enjoyed the experience. But as a web developer it is starting to cause me headaches.
It seems that FF3 cannot stretch a div that has overflow auto to the full length of the content. I check this with really long lists and got this output.

When I change the overflow attribute to hidden the div stretched as it should. IE7 though not my main browser has no problem with this code. I stopped using IE a long time ago but it seems that I am always forced back to using it to check on bugs in Firefox! Firefox always claims to have the faster browser and the one that is most standards compliat. The problem is it comes at the cost of many irritating bugs that I would trade standards compliance for any day.
Years ago I found a bug in Firefox where numbers on ordered lists would not iterate. It took two years? and hundreds of unwanted emails from the bug tracker it was finally fixed. I still get those emails now and again.  
I seem to always stumble upon these Firefox bugs and have to wonder people say that FF fixes bugs faster. Just not true. While there may be an effort to fix seurity bugs those other bugs, the ones that you can see and annoy you always seem to hang around. This is the same as it is with IE so no matter how you slice it the IE and FF are really evil twins. Its just that both are evil. 
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:55:54 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Drupal 6 is unusable  </title>
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 <description><![CDATA[It seems that module dependancies have rendered Drupal 6 totally unusable for most projects. Taking a look at the major modules development cycles it will be along time before Drupal 6 is ready to take the place of Drupal 5. 
Unlike Windows XP and Vista scenario it is not a resistance to change and upgrades by users that is the problem. But similar to the Windows problem with adaptation is the fact that upgrading high calibre Drupal module costs. To explain this simply, many of the hub modules like CCK and Views along with their children were developed using paid development time and sponsorships. The monies invested probably are not available any longer. This means that these modules will have to be developed out of the goodness of the hearts of many. There is also the time factor. Those that got paid to create these modules are probably busy doing other things now and so do not have the time to give anylonger.
Documentation for Drupal 6 modules are totally non-existent. Drupal 6 API documentation lacks the explaination of how the system works. Something that has always been present in previous versions. If you get involved with something using this version you are on your own. This is worsened by the fact that the Drupal.org developer forums have been deprecated and the replacement groups suck. You will not find any useful info in them and you have to find the right one.
So far I have built one project using Drupal 6. I see now that it was a mistake but I did learn a lot. I learned that Drupal  5 will be my main development platform for many more months to come. I learned that soon I will stop using Drupal because it is easier to write from scratch or use something else rather than spend hours on trying to fix bugs and hunting for knowledge on the system.
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:27:14 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>5 reasons why the Drupal  CMS is not ready for the enterprise</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Many Open Source content management systems written in PHP want to be recognized by the business industry as being "enterprise" ready. This is not only a mark of prestige and status but places them in a position where large companies are ready to invest in the software as a platform for their projects. Drupal is now trying making its move to be enterprise ready but has a long way to go.
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 01:56:48 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Movabletype is not Serious About Open Source</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Movabletype released an open source version of Movabletype 4.1 Yea!. But they suck at creating and supporting a community. Boo!. Nearly a half year ago they opened Movabletype.org again. Since then the only thing you can get there is confused. 
First they have the beta version of the CMS under the download button on the first page. Not the MTOS (open source) version but the retail version that is in beta! It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out this is  just wrong.
Secondly there is no community. "If you build it they will come". Hint: You have to build it first you dorks. How about a forum? A mailing list? Links to them?
Six Apart is filled with knowledgable people so the only reason that I can see that movabletype.org is in the condition it is in is because they just don't give a shit. The move to GPL movabletype is just PR and nothing else.
Carl is constantly ranting about how bad the ezPublish open source community is because ezPublish does nothing to help. Well now they have company. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:28:01 -0800</pubDate>
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 <title>5 Good Reasons to Drop Google Adsense</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Dropping Google Adsense is easier said than done. First I have to acknowledge why I use Adsense in the first place. I use it because it is easy and if I get lucky and write something meaningful then maybe I will get enough traffic, appreciation or sympathy to nail a few clicks that pay. Otherwise there is no good reason for using adsense. That was the pro but there are many cons to using Google Adsense.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:29:54 -0800</pubDate>
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 <title>How to Write Webpages in Ruby without Using Rails</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Ruby on Rails is gaining popularity but what do you do if you want to create web pages in Ruby but don't want Rails? The answer is eRuby. But not many web hosting know about eRuby. If you want eRuby then you will have to them ask for it. I found this  out by sending a few emails. Here are the results of the survey.
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:58:22 -0800</pubDate>
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 <title>Doing Web 2.0 Web Design with Drupal</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Web 2.0 web design techniques seem to be taking over. This is a breath of fresh air from the typical three column layouts that are all over the web. Over last weekend I got curious as to how hard it would be to implement some of the Web 2.0 techniques using a CMS. The result was better and easier than I expected.
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:26:07 -0800</pubDate>
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 <title>Taking a closer look at CMS matrix </title>
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Have you ever used cmsmatrix.org? I have and just of late I find it confusing and frustrating. When this website first came out I was with everyone else in giving it credit for filling a need. Now I am definately sure that they are doing a dis-service. When you are looking for a CMS you have an idea about what you want in the CMS. It maybe something you have heard about or seen on a website. So you take these ideas to cmsmatrix and try to compare the available web publishing systems using your list of needs. Unfortunately you may not find anything from your shopping list in the lists at the comparison site. 
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:11:15 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Firefox will beat IE: extensions are the Magic Bullet</title>
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Today I became very frustrated while trying to get out some emails. I was using Mozilla Thunderbird and at the end of a reply to an email I wanted to add a signature. I could not find any way of doing this in Thunderbird and so I googled the question "Thuderbird insert signature". I was immediately greeted with a link to addons.mozilla.org. I clicked on the link and there it was a brand new shining extension ready to install and make me happy!
The experience made me think about how similar problems with Micorsoft Internet Explorer have lead to a dead end.
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:51:27 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Jedit a Programming Text Editor for All Ocassions</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[The bottomline is that I like Jedit because it was the only editor or IDE that I could find that has syntax highlighting for eRuby, Ruby, PHP and does Unicode. Out of dozens of commercial and open source editors and IDEs and Jedit came out on top. It is the editor you need to have if you are going to do eRuby or Ruby. And it is free!
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:07:06 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Zends packaging of the Eclipse PHP IDE</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Whatever else comes out of Zends involvement with the Eclipse Foundation will show in time. But right now you can take advantage of the first perk. A pre-packaged version of the Eclipse IDE for PHP is available from Zends download site.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:53:52 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Adaptive Website Framework - good but immature</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Adaptive Website Framework 2.1.4 is a nice clean application for building pre-configured websites. AWFhas one of he best access control schemes that I have ever seen. The adminstration back-end on the whole is much better than that of more popular web pupublishing systems like Mambo, Drupal, Joomla or even Wordpress. It just has great usabilty.
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:24:10 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>ditCMS first impressions</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[First impressions are important and my first impressions of ditCMS are not good. the only reason I am taking the time to go through this ordeal is to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. Here's alist of things that are not good.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2006 06:11:41 -0700</pubDate>
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