I really like Le Monde‘s map featured above. Gotta love the colour cliché. And how the colour-coded maps are all the rage now, somehow.
It’s days like this I really miss living in France. NOT! ;)
French Voters Choose Sarkozy for President
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Coming Soon: Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Edition
From the source email (@ubuntu-devel-announce):
We will start more detailed planning at the Ubuntu Developer Summit next
week in Seville and the first release of this edition will be in October
with Ubuntu 7.10. If you are interested in the project, please get involved.
We will be working through our normal development processes on Launchpad,
the developer mailing lists and IRC.
Via Digg.
PHP 5.2.2 and 4.4.7 Released
“PHP 5.2.2 and 4.4.7 have been released with a plethora of security updates. Many of the security notifications come from the Month of PHP Bugs effort, and range from double freed memory to bugs in functions that allow attackers to enable register_globals, to memory corruption with unserialize(), to input validation flaws that allow e-mail header injections, with an unhealthy sprinkling of other bugs and flaws fixed. All administrators that run any version of PHP are encouraged to update immediately.”
Our sysadmin installed 5.2.2 on our test instances earlier today, and we’ll be testing (and closely watching for external reports) over the next few days before rolling it into production.
Via Slashdot.
The Javascript Programming Language
Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford provides a comprehensive introduction to the JavaScript Programming Language in this four-part video. This is the first section of the four-part video. See below the embedded video for more links.
Other programming videos by Douglas Crockford on Yahoo! Video:
The JavaScript Programming Language (4 parts).
Theory of the DOM (3 parts).
Advanced JavaScript (3 parts).
Via Digg.
parseMe 20070429 Update
Here’s another update to parseMe (back story), my little GPL’ed PHP-based RSS/Atom feed reader for mobile phones and other web-capable devices.
- Moved to object oriented, pretty much for the “fun” of it.
- Now passing a custom user-agent in the http query to avoid problems with sources that require it (Digg, among others).
You can find the appropriate links below:
- Online demo: See this mobile feed reader in action.
- parseMe-20070429-source.phps: PHP source, with comments (for online viewing).
- parseMe-20070429.tar.gz: 14KB – Full app, tar/gzip archive.
- parseMe-20070429.zip: 16KB – Full app, zip archive.
- SHA1SUM: SHA1 sum for the above files.
- RELEASES: Version history.
- INSTALL: Basic installation instructions to get you going.
- COPYING: Software license, GPL.
- AUTHORS: Credits file.
Keeps me from hating my phone until I can afford to get myself a nicer mobile solution.
