Archive for May, 2007

CSS Tweak

CSS Tweak is a very nice little tool to beautify and optimize your CSS code.

Get a Mac Genius

Here is a “very good” :P new Get a Mac ad:

APRIORI Algorithm

Palco Principal

During the last take off event, which took place in April 28th at the marvelous universitary city of Coimbra, I had the chance to watch in the first row to João Carvalho presentation, and talk to him later. He is the responsible for the Palco Principal website - a community website that allows Portuguese-spoken bands to interact with users and vice-versa. If you are or understand Portuguese you can access his presentation in PDF format, or the recorded presentation, in MP3.

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dunp.net - Yet Another Nice Logo

Lex has just done another logo for dunp.net, check it out:

dunp.net - Lex’s Logo

Feedback is appreciated. ;)

Flavors of SLAX

SLAX Logo

SLAX is a very cool KISS Linux Live CD distribution based on Slackware that comes in a couple of flavors (editions), such as:

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CSS love tools

I just got a quick look at an article called List of CSS Tools on Smashing Magazine, some cool stuff there.

Also, if you are looking how to style file form fields quirksmode has the answer.

Riding the snakes with Python

Python Logo

I’ve been reading about Python in my free time and I’m amazed how cool it is.

It features dynamic variable instantiation (this means you don’t have to do the boring job of instantiating all variables to a certain type, like in C or Java), it’s pretty fast (at least two times faster than PHP, for example) and, the Python code syntax is also very pleasant to look at, due to its indentation rule: every loop, condition or any other structure needs to be indented - there is no curly braces or begins/ends, here is an example:

Python Syntax

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CRON jobs for Windows

According to Wikipedia a CRON job “is a time-based scheduling service in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is driven by a configuration file named crontab that specifies shell commands to run periodically on a given schedule”.

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Free POP3 for everyone!

If you ever used Hotmail, Yahoo or any other major web based e-mail service provider, you have probably noticed that you don’t have access to your inbox trough POP3, this means that if you are not allowed to read your e-mail in Outlook, Thunderbird or any other email client - this is not exactly true.

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