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CodeIgniter 1.6

CodeIgniter 1.6 bringt eine lange Liste an Neuerungen mit.

Among a host of new capabilities, this release features:

• A Database Forge class: database agnostic table and field manipulation
• An enhanced Active Record library
• A revised Session Class with “flash variables” and additional security
• An extendable Model Class with auto-loadable Models
• Extendable Helpers, and additions and enhancements to existing Helpers
• A revised view architecture that allows for simple inclusion of multiple views
• And over 120 different enhancements, improvements and bug fixes

Drupal’s Page Loading Performance verbessern

Einen Ausführlichen Artikel wie die die 14 Performance Regeln von Yahoo! auf Drupal anwenden lassen hat Wim Leers geschrieben.

What follows is a comprehensive, yet pretty complete review of how Drupal 5 and 6 score on each rule, by listing the required features, settings or guidelines.

Neben dem Vergleich was Drupal 5 und 6 schon tun gibt der Autor Tips für Module und Patches. Fein!

Visual JavaScript Programming Tool

Lily schaut interessant aus.

Lily is an open source, browser-based, visual programming environment written in JavaScript. Lily enables users to build programs graphically by connecting functional modules to fetch and direct the flow of data, play sound or video, add animation or interactivity, and display results. Lily programs can be shared with other Lily users, installed as Firefox add-ons or run as standalone apps using XULrunner.

Einige Beispiele, die auch zeigen, dass das Interface nicht so unansehnlich sein muss, gibt es hier.

The debate isn’t security versus privacy. It’s liberty versus control.

Bruce Schneier kommentiert Michael McConnells (Director of National Intelligence) Vorschlag/Wunsch sämtliche Internet Kommunikation zu überwachen.

Security and privacy are not opposite ends of a seesaw; you don’t have to accept less of one to get more of the other. Think of a door lock, a burglar alarm and a tall fence. Think of guns, anti-counterfeiting measures on currency and that dumb liquid ban at airports. Security affects privacy only when it’s based on identity, and there are limitations to that sort of approach.

Since 9/11, approximately three things have potentially improved airline security: reinforcing the cockpit doors, passengers realizing they have to fight back and — possibly — sky marshals. Everything else — all the security measures that affect privacy — is just security theater and a waste of effort.

By the same token, many of the anti-privacy “security” measures we’re seeing — national ID cards, warrantless eavesdropping, massive data mining and so on — do little to improve, and in some cases harm, security. And government claims of their success are either wrong, or against fake threats.

The debate isn’t security versus privacy. It’s liberty versus control.

Online Tool zur Bitmap Vektorisierung

Die Stanford University launched Vector Magic.

This site converts bitmap images to vector images - it’s an online auto-tracer.

Just upload your image and we will vectorize it for you.

Als Upload Format werden die Formate JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, und TIFF akzeptiert. Das Ergebnis kann man als EPS, SVG, oder PNG downloaden.

via Css Herald