Archive for July, 2007

Federal Inmate sues Michael Vick »

A federal inmate has filed a handwritten federal lawsuit alleging that Michael Vick “stole my dogs” and seeking damages in the amount of “63,000,000,000.00 Billion dollars”. This fellow is either brilliant, insane, or both. [link]
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Solvin’ them Transparent-PNG blues »

Here’s a handy little utility to help you get the most from your transparent PNGs in website design:
http://entropymine.com/jason/tweakpng/
If you’re using Joomla, the excellent CorrectPNG plugin will get you only so far. For the rest, remove the gAMA channels from the affected files, and you should be right as rain in all browsers, including the incorrigible [...]

Joomla 1.0.13 Released »

The Joomla team today released version 1.0.13 “Sunglow”, which corrects multiple bugs, as well as several minor security issues.
My favorite bug fix: The “immediate admin logout after login” issue. Good work team!
Meanwhile, I see the project has released an Alpha for 1.5. Things are looking good!
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2007 Open Source CMS Award »

Let’s make it two straight for Joomla this year! [link]
Packt Publishing recently announced details for their 2007 Open Source Content Management System award, adding categories and widening the level of participation, so that the prize money is distributed across a wider array of projects.
Joomla, of course, was the 2006 winner, so the Joomla community has [...]

Webhost Review: LunarPages »

I’ve had to use LunarPages for work on a client site, and I must say, they’re just not up-to-snuff.
They’re clearly overselling bandwidth: One need look no further than their absurd storage and bandwidth “allowances” to see that they’re advertising a sizable percentage of total bandwidth available on the entire planet.
More than that, I’ve been getting [...]