Archive for January, 2007

Flash Player 9 for Linux

Posted by michael on January 17th, 2007 under General
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Finally, Linux users of all shapes and sizes can rejoice in not being rejected by sites that make use of Flash 8/9-only content. Adobe has released Flash Player 9 Final for Linux.
Announcement:
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/01/flash_player_9_for_linux_x86.html
Download:
http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer/
x86 Linux for now, by the way.

Back to Basics prologue

Posted by michael on January 15th, 2007 under Code, Javascript, MySQL
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Next week will see the launch of the Back to Basics project - for five consecutive days, starting on Monday, a different and new article will be posted covering a topic that the Web Expose team believe is important for beginner developers to grasp and understand. This project aims to improve the base skills of [...]

SimpleXML Oddities (PHP 5)

Posted by james on January 12th, 2007 under MySQL
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I was in charge of moving some domains from one server to another this week - and one of the sites pulled most of it’s data from a XML data feed, via SimpleXML. After syncing the entire site across to the new server, I was a bit worried to find that it had stopped functioning.
It [...]

Analysis of the slashdot effect

Posted by michael on January 9th, 2007 under Fun, General
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Yesterday’s IE7 on Linux post was (still is, for now) featured on the front-page of Slashdot, and subsequently experienced quite a sudden surge in web-traffic. Now, if there’s one thing that’s great about a large data set, it must be the ability to crudely analyse it and make incorrect assumptions!
Most of this is based on [...]

Internet Explorer 7 on Linux

Posted by michael on January 7th, 2007 under General, Hacks
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Updates

Sérgio from IEs4Linux wrote to say that the latest beta has fixed the black-box image problem, and also has no WGA requirements - so I think it’s best that everyone moves over to using his installer, as mine was a once-off and probably won’t be maintained! Thanks for the interest shown by everyone!
You can find [...]