An excellent article that compares Java with ColdFusion and dispells the myth that the two are incompatible and you have to give up ColdFusion in order to work with Java.
“This seems to be coming up more and more frequently, ColdFusion developers being asked to defend ColdFusion against a planned move to Java and J2EE. I now have three such messages in my inbox, and so I thought it worthwhile to share my response to this one.”
This article is aimed at designers and artists and lists ten different ways of improving your designs.
“6. Become a collector. Collecting allows us to look at one thing in a contemplative & mindful way. Giving you new insights and perceptions. Examples: Maria Kalman -purse contents, Steven Guarnaccia -shoe sole
rubbings, Ian Phillips & Grant Heaps -Lost & Found pet posters, Mark Ulriksen (former art director) -misspellings of his name, Charles & Rae Eames -toys from other countries”
Definitely check this one out.
If you have wanted to try out Libranet, but the price was getting in your way, now is your chance.
Someone on The List asked how to setup what they called “Multi-level login security”. Many Content Management Systems these days have this very feature. They will have a few people who are Administrators and can access everything on the site, another group of people who are editors who can only access a few things and then you have authors who can only submit stories and edit their own stories. In addition, this type of security needs to allow uses to be moved from group to group while keeping this totally transparent to the user. The question is though, how do you set this up on your site? This is actually not that hard to do. It takes three database tables and a little bit of forethought. We will start with the theory behind this simple technique, move on to the database tables, and end with a simple way of implementing this on a web site.
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Check out this little tutorial for directions on how to get a Synaptic touchpad working in Mandrake 10.
I have not had time to read the entire article, but what I did glance over showed that this is an excellent article on how to write a distributed shell script capable of backing up your linux box. Have a look, this is something that we all need to do a lot more often.
Here is an excellent online reference and tutorial on colour theory. It talks about all aspects of colour theory and also touches on how colour is affected by computer monitors and how it is displayed on the web.
