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HTML5Rocks.com: Google DevRel shares the love

Gregbo — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:05:55 +0000

The Chrome and HTML DevRel team at Google have released a new portal, HTML5 Rocks, that packages together some of the great resources available on HTML5 and the renaissance of browsers.

Whether it be references on what you can do, to read iness to shims to get use features now.

Beyond the resources, there is the killer HTML5 Slide Presentation and interactive playground.

A lot of nice stuff, all in one place. This is the first release, and we are sure to see a lot of additions coming soon. What would you like to see?

(Via Ajaxian » Front Page.)

by Gregbo
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Why do Some People Use HTM Rather Than HTML?

Gregbo — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:27:52 +0000

We love reading the discussions that develop on Answers. We love the fresh and innovative dev solution’s, the sometimes heated discussions over age old issues and appreciate all of the inspiration that is offered by Answers’ users.
Sometimes though, we come across a question that is neither controversial nor difficult to answer. And that is the point of Answers, its not just about the tricky questions and complex solutions within web design, it is also there to help beginners and amateurs. And that is what we would like to highlight in this post.

You can leave your thoughts on this topic in the comment section below or you can leave your solution on the original question here: Why do Some People Use HTM Rather Than HTML? on Answers.

Why do Some People Use HTM Rather Than HTML?

This question was originally asked by Rollback999, and you will find the favorite answers below:

Best Answer from Scunliffe:

My boss asked me this very question just the other day. The financial application system we use requires “.htm” and he was wondering why the developers chose one over the other. [Gregbo]

(Via Design Reviver.)

by Gregbo
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WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious”

Gregbo — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:38:16 +0000

WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click, and blah blah blah just watch the video.

For a more comprehensive look at everything that has improved in 3.0 check out 3.0’s Codex page or the long list of issues in Trac. (We’re trying to keep these announcement posts shorter.) Whew! That’s a lot packed into one release. I can’t think of a better way to kick off the 3.X cycle we’ll be in for the next two and a half years.

Easier menu support = Pure Awesomeness!! [Gregbo]

(Via WordPress Development Blog.)

by Gregbo
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Twitter Places Shows Where That Tweet Came From

Gregbo — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:18:07 +0000

Twitter’s adding a feature called Places which allows you to associate tweets with locations. Along with this feature, the company is also rolling out the corresponding API as well as Gowalla and Foursquare integration. [Twitter]

(Via Gizmodo.)

by Gregbo
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Switching Hosting Providers

Gregbo — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:36:24 +0000

I am proud to announce that this blog is now hosted with GoDaddy. My previous host has caused me so many issues over the past year and I finally just had enough. The last straw came when WebHost4Life, my former host, decided to “upgrade” to a new server platform. They announced that this new server migration would be happening several months ago and that all of their customers should “rest easy” because it would be a “painless process”. Apparently they put together a crack team of village idiots migration specialists to oversee this transition.

The migration specialists failed to take note of file/folder permissions within ALL of my personal and client websites. This wreaked total havoc on any dynamic server applications I had built for myself and my clients. It was total chaos. The worst part of this debacle was that WebHost4Life has taken away the developers ability to control file/folder permissions! What?! Their official response is that developers should invoke a trouble ticket and have the hosting team administer the permissions. Now I can’t even fix the problem they created. On top of this, they have now introduced “premium support” so that if you pay extra fees you can get these trouble tickets investigated faster.

After several calls to India to speak with WebHost4Life’s new phone support guru, Habib, I finally got through to their USA office in Phoenix, Arizona. The people were rude and unprofessional. And so on the spot ended an eight year long hosting relationship.

I have officially moved my services to Go Daddy and have been extremely happy with the result thus far. Were I WebHost4Life, I would be thoroughly embarrassed by the incompetence and sheer unprofessionalism. I would warn any developers seeking hosting to avoid this company like the black plague as I am sure they won’t be in business much longer.

by Gregbo
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Recovering from Disaster

Gregbo — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:00:32 +0000

So I had this blog up and “somewhat” fully operational. True, I didn’t start posting to it as often as I had hoped, but for all intents and purposes it was live. A good excuse for my lack of persistence in posting was the fact that I was embroiled in an extremely bitter divorce and custody battle over the past year-and-a-half. Now that I am FINALLY divorced and have sole custody of my beautiful child, I felt that with the storm being over I could finally get down to business with this blog.

Being me, I fiddled with every setting and option available until I had very successfully screwed everything up so badly that it was far easier for me to start anew. While I have reinstalled and configured this blog to be exactly how I want it to be, there was an article I had written about my discovery of PHP and my exodus from ASP as my primary web programming language that became a casualty of my “fiddling”. So to those of you that left such nice comments, and especially to those who linked to and quoted my previous article, I’m sorry… It’s gone forever. However, I will attempt to recapture my thoughts from the article in a forthcoming post.