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I’m using my netbook very frequently these days (FF3.5 on UNR) and I was just disabling the bookmarks toolbar to have more space as I do in desktop. Last week I tried Meerkat , a Firefox addon that optimize the browser display for netbooks, the idea sounds great ! Meerkat hides the statusbar when there is no activity Removes the menu bar, rebuilt into a drop down button placed on the navigation bar Adds downloads and bookmarks buttons to the right of the location bar, followed by above mentioned menu bar button Reduces the navigation bar icon size to the small setting My only issue was with the ScreenGrab addon since I’m not able to use it anymore from statusbar. I’m not sure about download and bookmarks button since I don’t use at all. I think the best configuration for Firefox on Netbooks will be a fullscreen mode like with taskbar and statusbar visible in the same time. Any better tips to optimize Firefox on netbooks ?
August 9th, 2009 | Posted in Books, Firefox Extensions, Tips, Uncategorized, php | No Comments
To celebrate their five years birthday, Packt Publishing offered five books FREE for download. Books include Building Online Communities with phpBB 2 , Invision Power Board: A User Guide , Building Websites with e107 , and The PEAR Installer Manifesto . Since there is not much books about PEAR, here is one of the few ones available for download free : the PEAR installer manifesto, written by Gregory Beaver, 296 pages and published by Packt on October 30, 2006. The book covers the PEAR Installer version 1.4.0 onwards. Current PEAR stable version is 1.8.1.
July 4th, 2009 | Posted in Books, Pear, Software, Uncategorized, php | No Comments
There is much more to developing a Web presence than choosing a domain name, applying a template, writing some content, and adding navigation menus. There are a multitude of tasks related to developing, managing, and maintaining Web sites that are…
June 6th, 2009 | Posted in Books, Uncategorized | No Comments
Just in time for the gift-giving season – as mentioned christopher in his blog – annoucing the December edition of the Underground PHP & Oracle Manual . We have announced the previous edition 1.4 of the manual back in may 2007. The current edition is written by Christopher Jones and Alison Holloway, it include 290 pages and 16 chapters and is 50% bigger than the previous edition – unfortunately we don’t have the previous edition at this time to compare, but what we can say is that it’s a great eBook that you should get for anyone working with PHP and Oracle. The manual still aims to bridge the gap between the multitude of PHP books and Oracle books on the market. It is still a “braindump” and in no way replaces any of the other PHP-Oracle books in the marketplace. They all cover different aspects of development with PHP and Oracle, and I encourage you to also consider them for your bookshelf. Download Underground PHP and Oracle Manual [PDF]
December 9th, 2008 | Posted in Books, Uncategorized, php, technology | No Comments
Vikram Vaswani have written an interesting article over IBM developerWorks on processing and integration of Google Notebook data with PHP . In the article, the author explains how to use the Google Notebook REST API to build PHP-based client applications. Google Notebook is a free service that allows users to save and share notes and Web clippings in an online journal. A REST-based API allows developers to build customized PHP applications around this service using SimpleXML. In this article, you learn how to use the API, with examples of reading notebooks and notebook contents using PHP.
June 6th, 2008 | Posted in Books, Google Notebook, Uncategorized | No Comments
Apress published on August 2007 a great book on PHP and oracle by W. Jason Gilmore, and Bob Bryla. The book, with its 763 pages and 40 chapters, include a full coverage on working with PHP and oracle from novice to professional as the book title indicates. Since I’m working everyday with PHP and Oracle, I spent more time than usual to finish reading the entire book – but I defintely enjoy it.
April 4th, 2008 | Posted in Books, General, Oracle 10g, Press, Tips, Uncategorized, php, solutions | No Comments
We have previously reviewed Confidential SEO Secrets book by Allen Harkleroad. If I go back to my archives I’ll find certainly a paper copy of the book with notes and correction that I have made manually last year – the book has another name in that time. Anyway the good news this time is that Confidential SEO secrets book is now available for FREE, in its latest revision copy with 79 pages PDF. Download SEO Secrets book today totally free, no registration required, no strings attached
January 11th, 2008 | Posted in Books, News, Uncategorized, php | No Comments
Chris Jones and Alison Holloway released today version 1.4 of The Underground PHP and Oracle Manual [PDF]. An excellent reference for the PHP Oracle developper in 17 chapters and 195 pages. The e-Book cover different issues for installing PHP, Oracle with the different extensions available and connecting them to each other. You can find also how to tune connections by changing OCI8 calls, the network configuration and by tuning the database. More advanced topics are covered such using PL/SQL with OCI8, using large objects in OCI8, using XML, globalization, and a very short chapter but consistent about tracing OCI8 internals. Lots of changes have been made in this release including : Updated the versions of software in the install steps. Show how to use the Windows MSI installer
May 15th, 2007 | Posted in Books, Software, Tips, Uncategorized, php, technology | No Comments
Chitika announced in their recent newsletter an amazing new e-Book titled ” Deep Secrets of Successful Blogging ” (PDF) and including selection of 30 experts worldwide in the first 2007 Blog Bash event. An amazing reading for the weekend ! The list include : B5media, Gizmodo, problogger, emoms at home, daily blog tips, Tech buzz, seobook, pronet advertising, Bumpzee, LiewCF, and much more ! Definitely loved the articles and the presentation of every expert, and of course you’ll discover lots of tips to make money with your blog and Chitika. Click the image below to download the PDF e-Book. Enjoy !
May 12th, 2007 | Posted in Blogonews, Books, Monetize your Blog, Uncategorized | No Comments
The MIT press released a new book titled Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software , an excellent reading for the weekend ! The book; edited by Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Scott A. Hissam and Karim R. Lakhani; analyzes a number of key topics: the motivation behind F/OSS — why highly skilled software developers devote large amounts of time to the creation of “free” products and services; the objective, empirically grounded evaluation of software — necessary to counter what one chapter author calls the “steamroller” of F/OSS hype; the software engineering processes and tools used in specific projects, including Apache, GNOME, and Mozilla; the economic and business models that reflect the changing relationships between users and firms, technical communities and firms, and between competitors; and legal, cultural, and social issues, including one contribution that suggests parallels between “open code” and “open society” and another that points to the need for understanding the movement’s social causes and consequences. What is the status of the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) revolution? Has the creation of software that can be freely used, modified, and redistributed transformed industry and society, as some predicted, or is this transformation still a work in progress? Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software brings together leading analysts and researchers to address this question, examining specific aspects of F/OSS in a way that is both scientifically rigorous and highly relevant to real-life managerial and technical concerns.
March 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Books, Press, Press Release, Software, Uncategorized, php, tools | No Comments