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May, 2006 Archive

Fedora Core 5 Review with Screenshots

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

Several years ago, when I was first looking to switch from Windows to a new operating, I was really interested in switching to Linux or Unix. Unfortunately, in my experience, you had to be a command line hack if you wanted to install, enhance or fix anything. I had no desire to run an operating [...]

Posted in Commentary, Linux, Open Source, OpenOffice.org, Productivity | 16 Comments »

Excel Line Endings Break PHP

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

Here’s a quick tip that might save the PHP developers out there some time. (It would have saved me thirty minutes of debugging if I had know this earlier.)
When you export an Excel file as a CSV in Office for Mac, Excel saves the file using CR line breaks instead of the standard LF (Unix) [...]

Posted in PHP, Programming | 6 Comments »

How To Backup Your Mac Intelligently

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

Last week Jon wrote about the horrifying experience everyone eventually has to deal with - data loss. His wife’s hard drive failed - and without a current backup to rely upon - he went through two data recovery companies and two thousand dollars to retrieve 80 gigs of home movies, pictures, and a career’s worth [...]

Posted in Data Recovery, How To, Linux, Productivity | 82 Comments »

Ruby on Rails with OS X Tiger

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

I’ll admit there are already 12 million documents out there claiming to explain this, but for one reason or another I couldn’t get any of them to work as written. Ruby on Rails is undergoing rapid development, and OS X is not sitting still either. Here are the steps I used, which should [...]

Posted in Open Source | 5 Comments »

Review of Data Recovery Services for Apple Macintosh Hard Drives

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

My wife and I had the unfortunate experience of having her Mac mini’s hard drive crash. She had everything on her hard drive — family photos, all of her graphic design work, fonts, important emails, etc… — but no backup! I’ve experienced two catastrophic data failures before, and that taught me to backup my MacBook [...]

Posted in Commentary, Data Recovery | 5 Comments »

Nashville Web Design and SEO Firm Launches New AthlonSports.com

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 17, 2006 — Sitening, a Nashville-based SEO and Web design firm, launched a new website for Athlon Sports.
Sitening implemented and customized Athlon’s new content management system. This free and open source software, called Drupal, added features like RSS feeds, forums, and the ability to comment on stories. The new site is [...]

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“Web Design” Out, “SEO Web Design” In

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

I was having some fun with the newly released Google Trends. Out of curiousity, I wanted to see how popular the keywords “web design” have done over the years. To my amazement, there’s been a downward trend for the past few years.
“Web Design”

I then did a search for “SEO” and noticed an upward trend (which [...]

Posted in SEO, Web Design | No Comments »