Links for Tue 19 Feb 2008

Rails for PHP Developers – Blog to go along with the book of the same name. Powered by WordPress, a PHP application.
Tags: php wordpress ruby rails railsforphpdevelopers

Links for Thu 7 Feb 2008

scot hacker?s foobar blog > Notes on a Massive WordPress Migration – Lots of details on how they moved CDT from MovableType to WordPress.
Tags: movabletype wordpress
Why Did I Change My Mind? | AlwaysOn – Logic behind MySQL selling to Sun instead of going ahead with the IPO.
Tags: mysql sun
ixr – Google Code – Looks like Simon took his IXR XML-RPC library here
Tags: php xmlrpc ixr

Autocomplete HTML/CSS/JavaScript/python/xml/php/c with CTRL-X CTRL-O – parsed.org – Add autocomplete features to Vim. Wish I’d come across this sooner.
Tags: vim autocomplete php javascript html python
OpenID Splash – Looks like Yahoo has taken major dive into the OpenID pool.
Tags: openid yahoo

woork: Digg-like navigation bar using CSS – Add this to my collection of pretty rounded menu bars.
Tags: css digg menubar
HTML Purifier – Filter your HTML the standards-compliant way! – Makes some big claims, would be interesting to see it put to the test.
Tags: html php htmlpurifier filter xss
zfs – Trac – Source and binaries for ZFS on Mac OS X. Seems safe to say that we’ll see ZFS as a built in feature in some future release of OS X (10.6 perhaps?).
Tags: zfs macosx filesystem

Recover Truncated PHP Serialized Arrays // ShaunInman.com – Another example of why databases should NEVER silenty truncate data. If the data doesn’t fit in the field then the insert/update needs to fail.
Tags: php database
Facebox 1.0 – Another lightbox clone in the style of Facebook. Requires JQuery.
Tags: facebox jquery javascript lightbox
Beastie Blog | Using Screen to log yourself. – I’ve never used the logging feature of screen, might use it next time I setup a new server though.
Tags: screen
GrabFS: The Screenshot File System – Not sure I’ll ever use it, but this is just an awesome hack.
Tags: macosx screenshot grabfs fuse macfuse
PuTTY Tray – Always important to have a good ssh client for your Windows box.
Tags: putty puttytray ssh

40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design | Fonts | Smashing Magazine – That’s right, another font list.
Tags: fonts
favikon – Web tool for creating favicons.
Tags: favikon favicon graphics
WPhone Admin Plugin – iPhone admin for WordPress.
Tags: iphone wordpress wphone
A reversible password encryption routine for PHP – Encrypt and decrypt routines writing in PHP.
Tags: encryption php security
Tips For Creating Great Web Forms – CSS-Tricks – Making forms line up and look nice is still one of those things that is often too much work with CSS only.
Tags: css forms
WordPress Complete – Hey, it’s a WordPress book, neat.
Tags: wordpress book

State of Utah Elections Office – The number of registered voters in the State of Utah, by county. Just under 1.5 million total.
Tags: utah vote stats
The BabelFish Blog, Limitations of MetaWeblog API – Couple of years old, but a good list of complaints.
Tags: xmlrpc metaweblog
PHP mail() and The Path of No Return ? All in the head – If you are using PHP’s mail() function then make sure that Sendmail is happy with the From address on the envelope.
Tags: php mail sendmail
WLW+AtomPub, Part 4: Categories | whateverblog. – Sounds like categories in AtomPub will still need some work.
Tags: windowslivewriter atompub