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Diigo Bookmarks 06/25/2010
<p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/no_tag'>no_tag</a> </p> <ul class=‘diigo-highlights’> <li> <div class="bubble"> <img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.diigo.com/images/v2/float_note.gif?w=840" data-recalc-dims="1" /> </div> <ul class=‘diigo-sticky-notes’> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet">knightnet</a></span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/no_tag'>no_tag</a> </p> <ul class=‘diigo-highlights’> <li> <div class="bubble"> <img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.diigo.com/images/v2/float_note.gif?w=840" data-recalc-dims="1" /> </div> <ul class=‘diigo-sticky-notes’> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet">knightnet</a></span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !
Diigo Bookmarks 06/24/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> A quick tutorial on using Firebug for JavaScript debugging. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/javascript'>javascript</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/firefox'>firefox</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 06/21/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Useful educational site for parents and children. Keeping safe online. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/education'>education</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/security'>security</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 06/16/2010
<p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/wordpress'>wordpress</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/seo'>seo</a> </p>
Microsoft’s Facebook Docs.com fails at the first hurdle
Had my first test for Microsoft’s new [docs.com][1] this week – and it failed badly. In case you don’t know, Microsoft recently announced a new beta [Office Live link-up with Facebook][1]. You can log in using your [Facebook][2] login instead of a Microsoft Live Id. So you would think that it would be possible to use [docs.com][1] as a collaborative document editor and I suspect that you are supposed to be able to – as long as your documents don’t contain anything complex – such as comments!
Bug in WordPress 3.0 Custom Post Types
Well this one threw me! I was trying out the new custom post types in WordPress 3.0 RC1 and could not work out why mine wasn’t working even when I copied an example from the web and only changed a few things. It turns out that there is a limitation in the naming of post types – they cannot have a name longer than 20 characters! If you use more than 20 characters, the “Publish” button becomes “Submit for Review” and if you submit, you get the dreaded: Are you sure you want to do this?
Diigo Bookmarks 06/08/2010
<p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/wordpress'>wordpress</a> </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/wordpress'>wordpress</a> </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/wordpress'>wordpress</a> </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/wordpress'>wordpress</a> </p> <p class=‘diigo-description’> Twitter, URL shortening and Facebook “like” api. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/wordpress'>wordpress</a> </p> Posted from Diigo.
Diigo Bookmarks 06/02/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> “Adminer (formerly phpMinAdmin) is a full-featured MySQL management tool written in PHP. Conversely to phpMyAdmin, it consist of a single file ready to deploy to the target server.” – Looks like an interesting alternative to phpMyAdmin. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/php'>php</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/mysql'>mysql</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 05/12/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Some useful help to get your photo collection in order. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/photography'>photography</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/software-list'>software-list</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/organisation'>organisation</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 05/08/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Blog covering desktop virtualisation </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/virtualization'>virtualization</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/web'>web</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 04/29/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Query tool with support for many data sources. Visual query builder.<br /> Freeware version does not have export or print features. Only UKP21 </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/software'>software</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/freeware'>freeware</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/payware'>payware</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/sql'>sql</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/windows'>windows</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/portable'>portable</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 04/21/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> An excellent, free, web development environment. Does not need to be “installed” even under Windows. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/software'>software</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/freeware'>freeware</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/web'>web</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/server'>server</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/php'>php</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/perl'>perl</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/windows'>windows</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/linux'>linux</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/mac'>mac</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/sql'>sql</a> </p> <ul class=‘diigo-comments’> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/ajp-diigo">ajp-diigo</a></span> </li> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/leland">leland</a></span> </li> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.
Diigo Bookmarks 04/20/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> A nice knowledge search engine based on AI principals. Great for homework answers and very addictive. Uses social answers and voting to help improve as well as linking knowledge from a number of sources. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/search'>search</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/searchengine'>searchengine</a> </p> <ul class=‘diigo-comments’> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/grahamperrin">grahamperrin</a></span> </li> </ul>
Diigo Bookmarks 04/15/2010
<p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/web'>web</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 04/13/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> “The new terms and conditions are a hardline move from Apple, a glimpse into the company’s ruthless competitive streak and a clear statement that Apple expects to maintain absolute control over the iPhone app development cycle. And with the App Store still far and away the most popular of all mobile application markets, the company is still in a position to call the shots.”<br /> Once again, Apple are revealing their true colours.
