These are my links for February 12th through February 17th:

Using WordPress Excerpts – from Beyond Caffeine and WebsiteStyle.com

How to get the most out of the WordPress excerpt function.

DotNetSCORM™ – The SCORM .NET Open Source Learning Management Project > Home

The purpose of the DotNetSCORM™ project is to create an Open Source Learning Management System using .Net technologies. There are currently several SCORM compliant Learning Management System’s written in Java and PHP. These are mostly based upon the ADL Sample RTE. However due to the technologies used they can not be tightly integrated into the Windows Server environment. Therefore this projects goal is create a SCORM Compliant LMS to serve as a model for further development and use of the SCORM standard on the Windows Platform.

Code Editor in the Cloud | Linux Magazine

A fully-functional code editor that resides in the cloud is something that I’ve been dreaming about for awhile now. The idea of being able to open a public project and easily edit it in a familiar environment from any computer without SSHing into the server is very appealing to me.

There have been a couple of attempts on the web to do something like this but they’ve been a little too simple. Now, however, Mozilla Labs has announced the launch of Bespin, a full-featured, collaborative code editor that resides in the cloud.

Styling search forms (Gordonmac dot com)

Many people argue against removing browser default styles for form elements, especial replacing the default submit input with an image. This for the simple fact that text in an image cannot be resized by the user. Yet there are attractive and accessible ways to do so and this is one example of how.

Customizing the search box in Drupal 6 | codegobbler.com

There have been loads of suggestions about how to do this on drupal.org, including altering the core Drupal source (not a good idea!), using a string replace function in a custom template file or using the String overrides module. But, the best suggestion came from this post and is the most Drupal friendly way of doing it.

These are my links for February 2nd through February 10th:

JsonML (JSON Markup Language)

JsonML (JSON Markup Language) is an application of the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data-interchange format. The purpose of JsonML is to provide a compact format for transporting XML-based data via JSON.

Exchange Business Cards Using Just Your Cell Phone – washingtonpost.com

A simple text message is all it takes to send someone all your contact info.

Putting heads (and computers) together to solve global problems – MIT News Office

Imagine if the planet's collective brainpower and computing power could be brought together to tackle some of the world's toughest problems, including global climate change and cancer.
It may sound like science fiction, but researchers at MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI) are trying to make it reality.

Popular applications such as Wikipedia, Linux and YouTube already take advantage of collective intelligence — the harnessing of human knowledge and intelligence that allows groups of people to act together in ways that seem to be intelligent. But those applications only scratch the surface of what is possible with collective intelligence, says Thomas Malone, director of the CCI and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Footprints Of Google’s GDrive Spotted – InformationWeek

A reference to Google's long-rumored online storage service was spotted in a JavaScript localization file associated with Google Pack, Google's free software bundle.

How to Avoid Spambots | Project Honey Pot

One of the primary ways spammers get email addresses is by stealing them from websites. They do this by using "spambots," computer programs which automatically troll web pages and harvest email addresses. While Project Honey Pot helps you identify these spambots by providing you with unique tracking addresses for your website, it is also important to protect the real addresses you don't want harvested. The tips and tricks below we have found effective at stopping most spambots. You can use these tips even if you're not a member of Project Honey Pot.

These are my links for January 20th through January 28th:

Functioning Form – Top, Right or Left Aligned Form Labels

As the question of top, right, or left aligned form labels comes up often for web designers, here’s a short overview of the pros and cons of each method.

BambooInvoice: Simple, Beautiful, Open Source, Online Invoicing

BambooInvoice is free Open Source invoicing software intended for small businesses and independent contractors. Our number one priorities are ease of use, user-interface, and beautiful code. BambooInvoice was built by designer and programmer Derek Allard, who uses it everyday, not by a large firm who can't remember the names of its customers. It is meant to be sexy, both on top of, and under the hood.

10 Awesome Ways to Integrate Twitter With Your Website – NETTUTS

The tools for web developers to add a touch of Twitter to any site are out there and easy to use. There's no better time to start utilizing Twitter integration tools than right now. Here are 10 of the most useful ways to start turning your site readers (or your client's customer base) into Twitter followers, and vice versa.

Show all files in the Finder | Mac OS X Hints | Macworld

If you work with Unix files and folders a lot, you’ve probably already noticed that you can’t see many of them in the Finder (Mac) —the /usr, /bin, and /etc folders, amongst many others, don’t show up in the Finder.

Looking Ahead To Joomla’s Future – Content Management Blog – InformationWeek

It appears that the Joomla community won't have to wait much longer to kick the tires on the next major release. The alpha release of Joomla 1.6 may be ready for testing within the next month or two, according to a blog posting from a Joomla lead developer Andrew Eddie.

It's been about a year since Joomla 1.5 was released. Since then they've issued dot releases with a few minor enhancements and bug fixes, the most recent of which, 1.5.9, addresses a couple security issues and a handful of bugs.

Joomla 1.6 adds two significant enhancements. The first is a revamp of the way that extensions are handled by the system, allowing more flexibility and customized builds. The second is an overhaul of access controls, which promises to give administrators much more granular control over user rights.