February 26th, 2009 under linux, windows
As I use Win7 more and more, there are things that I notice it doesn’t do that linux did do. Virtual desktops, certain programs minimizing to the systray, clipboard history. Small things, things that you normally would take for granted if you had them, but things that become very noticeable when they’re suddenly [...]
February 23rd, 2009 under linux, windows
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been using the Windows 7 beta. A shocker, I know, but I’ve been able to find replacements for most of the software I use everyday in Linux. The biggest hangups I’ve found so far are 1) lack of package manager (PLEASE, Microsoft, implement something to this [...]
February 20th, 2009 under windows
Disclaimer: I never have gotten a chance to experiment with Vista, so I apologize if some of the “new features” I rant about here are actually old features carried over from Vista.
So I liked what I saw when I installed Windows 7 on VirtualBox. And I didn’t get to see Aero, and I kinda [...]
February 14th, 2009 under asides, php
Maintaining array indexes after deleting an element; selecting a random element from an associative array.
February 8th, 2009 under php, web
CSS-based rounded corner solutions are excellent for website layouts, but it’s just downright silly to envelope a single img tag with two to four extraneous divs just to get some nice rounded corners on that one image. PHP (with its GD library) is excellent for this purpose.
Image: Warped by ~eternicode (me).
My PHP script can [...]