Latest Articles

BlueHarvest Fixes pesky ._DSstore and resource fork files

{ No Comment }

For those developing on a Mac in an otherwise non-Mac environment (Windows or Linux desktops and/or servers), you’ve undoubtedly run into the dreaded ._DSstore files.  These are resource files OS X creates for directories, and when connecting to a remote file system of another flavor, OS X will leave behind these files and cause you [...]

MySQL forks reveal uncertainty about Oracle’s plans

{ No Comment }

Ran across this article on Zend.com about Drizzle, a lightweight fork of MySQL intended for “cloud” applications.  As we see more fork projects and groups take MySQL in their own directions, I continue to wonder what Oracle’s ultimate intentions are for the open source db now that it owns MySQL as part of its acquisision [...]

IE7.js a universal solution to IE6 craptastic-ness?

{ No Comment }

More thoughts on this later, but for now, just check out Dean Edwards’ IE7.js javascript library, which causes IE to behave like a standards-compliant browser. Eric Meyer has some great thoughts about IE7.js as well.  Note that both IE7.js and Eric’s blog post have been around a while, but this is still good stuff for [...]