English scratches and Italian notes written by Carlo Perassi
I think that newcomers need simple notes to use YCodaSlider.
First, include the required libraries:
then fire it up with a short script like this one:
YCodaSlider.Base.css('style.css');
jQuery(window).bind("load", function() {
jQuery("div.ycodaslider").ycodaslider({width : 540, sidebars : false});
jQuery("div.ycodaslider").width(540);
});
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The Samsung SyncMaster 245B is a 24” TFT monitor that works at 1900×1200. I’ve waited for the release of Hardy to try it (my test was done with a video card recognized by lspci as ATI RV516 Radeon X1300/X1550 Pro). Surprisingly, Hardy chose the correct resolution at the first attempt! How simple in comparison to an older Kubuntu!
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The TPCI April Headline is
Lua hype seems to be over (fallen out of top 20). What is next? Groovy, Erlang?
Some people here say that Erlang would be the next hype. I don’t know… but if I began to study it then it certainly would be the next hype in a rather short time. 
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The TPCI March Headline is
Ruby after 4 months back in the top 10 again
My headline is
Viewing its graph, I noticed a frightening renaissance of (Visual) Basic. Burp.
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Reading the referers of this website, I found that someone reached it querying a search engine for
using AWK to find zero length files
AWK is a great tool but IMHO that is not its job.
I would have used a simple
find -size 0b
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Yesterday TrueCrypt 5.0 was released. Unfortunately, they don’t use a feed to announce their news.
An old question of mine is: how to get noticed when a webpage changes? A simple but effective answer is: to check periodically its changes with something like
curl -s http://www.truecrypt.org/news.php | sha512sum
This is not a complete script but it can give you a good hint, though.
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Even though
many enterprises continue to walk the wrong path in their web strategies (I won’t write the name of the programming language I ‘m talking about :D).
Why? Because they still think about the web like late-80s software!
There are four short lessons: learn them and you’ll start to understand a bit of it…
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Someday this post could save you an hour: do you need to insert raw HTML code in MediaWiki (for example, an internal image that links to an external website)? Configure it to use $wgRawHtml (its page says that it is safe to use it only if your site is not publicly editable).
I can’t say this often enough: use MediaWiki if and only if you need a website that is a small clone of WikiPedia: if you need something that is just slightly different, use DokuWiki!
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I don’t know why but only few {third-part} Joomla! developers use patTemplate variables: this library is available in both Joomla! 1.0.x/1.5.x so I really don’t understand why it’s not widely used (I didn’t use it in my early components but I’ve definitely started using it). A simple example is available on their website. If I’m not wrong, even Joseph LeBlanc didn’t write about it in his book (which I’ve previously described).
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The TPCI January Headline is
TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007!
The reason is
Python appeared to have the largest increase in ratings in one year time (…) Chances are high that Python’s star will rise further in 2008, thanks to the upcoming release of Python 3.
Unfortunately I don’t have enough time to follow its development and I think I’m missing many features of such a contemporary programming language. Still, I think that PHP is underused as a CLI glue at system level.
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