10 Daily Things

Microsoft has reversed its decision to make IE8 behave like IE7 unless specifically requested.
Wow. And even more surprising is their reason for making the change. In Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8 on the IEBlog, IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch says:
In light of the Interoperability Principles, as well as feedback from the community, we’re choosing differently. [...]

CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously. This is a free promotion application and according the creators: “If you like this, you may be interested in our browser compatibility service, Litmus. Yes, that’s why this software is free!”
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Today I’ve read 2 posts at TWM’s blog and Me, Myself and Delphi, that Delphi is listed in the 12 languages that never took off.
Delphi for sure is not a dead language. Coldfusion (also listed) isn’t dead neither. MySpace, for example, is written in ColdFusion.
I don’t care about the inaccuracy of post. I care about [...]

Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer from RailsEnvy.com do some Ruby on Rails commercials in the same style of the Mac vs PC ads.
This is the Ruby on Rails vs Java clip

and this is the Ruby on Rails vs PHP clip

Quite interesting I could say.
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WAMP5 installs automatically Apache 1.3.31 ,PHP5, MySQL database ,PHPmyadmin and SQLitemanager on your computer. It’s principal aim is to allow you to easily discover the new version oh PHP : PHP5. WAMP5 comes with a service manager installed as a tray icon. It allows you to manage WAMP5 and access all services.

When you install WAMP5, [...]

A drawing of a comic character, done entirely using HTML. Amazing!

Montastic is an extremely handy tool that monitors websites for you and lets you know when they go down.
This is great for developers who need to keep track of numerous sites (up to 100). Montastic checks your sites every 10 minutes and as soon as one or more sites go down, it will instantly send [...]

Having a working knowledge of XHTML and CSS when developing applications is a big help in knowing what can be done client-side and what should be generated server-side.
Here are 3 brilliant examples of Bar Graphs made using CSS.
Basic CSS Bar Graph

Complex CSS Bar Graph

Vertical CSS Bar Graph

View the code of the examples @ Apples To [...]

If you design open source templates, of course you want them to be downloaded and used by other people. You can just upload them to your own site but in most cases they won’t be downloaded a lot of times. Probably the site is not so popular. There are some exclusions like Andreas Viklund’s site [...]

A nice collection of usefull free icons.

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