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I got the chance a bit ago to set up MODx on a test server. Wow, what a great platform. The next time I’m commissioned to do a multi-content, end-user-updatable website I’ll be taking a serious look at implementing it. It seems to be very flexible with lots of widgets and an active community.
Plus, as it says on its website, it’s “100% buzzword compliant.” Gotta love that. :)
Here’s a great resource for anyone who uses CSS examples they find on the web. It will format and/or compress your CSS into your own layout and style preferences, with options for compressing output, combining selectors, changing the case of selectors/properties, etc.
You can either copy-and-paste your code, or point it to a URL. It’s based off the CSSTidy open-source project. While you’re at it, be sure to have a copy of CSSTidy’s XHTML cheat sheet!
Apparently tired of getting his butt handed to him by Google, Steve Ballmer calls Google’s growth plans “insane”.
“They are trying to double in a year,” Ballmer told a crowd of Stanford Graduate School of Business students on Thursday. “That’s insane in my opinion.”
But, he added, “it doesn’t mean they won’t do it well.”
Mr. Ballmer went on to call them a “one-trick pony” that “does a lot of cute things”.
Of course, this all sounds like sour grapes to anyone who is familiar with Steve’s attitude towards Google. The most famous incident of course is the one in which he threw a chair across the room after one of his executives who decided to work for Google and vowed to “f**king kill” Google. Apparently, execs leaving Microsoft for Google is a rather common occurrence these days, and Steve isn’t too happy about that.
Hey Steve, from here it doesn’t like you’re exactly “killing” Google. In fact, it looks like Google continues to take the lion’s share of the ever-expanding search engine market, while Microsoft’s share isn’t even keeping pace with overall growth. Maybe you’re just a bit jealous of that?
This loud-mouthed jerk continues to be an embarrassment for Microsoft. I really do believe that the company as a whole is trying to improve its image, especially in open-source circles, but it makes it very difficult when this guy keeps shooting off his mouth. Microsoft, please can this guy already.
Update: This post originally stated that Ballmer “threw a chair at” the outgoing executive, which incorrectly implied actual physical violence towards him.
Perhaps I’m the only one who hasn’t heard this yet, but the server version of Vista will be available in a version called “Server Core” with almost all of its GUI components stripped out. The removal of all that bloat will reduce it to about 1/6 its regular size.
Sounds like the first version will be rather paltry — no IE, no .NET framework, no MS Paint (gasp!), a “stripped down” version of Notepad (that’s not a joke) — suitable only for running as a file server, domain controller, or DNS/DHCP server.
Kinda surprising, considering most services such as IIS can already be managed remotely, although I’m sure that isn’t too far behind. I’m sure that such a move would make them much more attractive in the web hosting space, where LAMP-based platforms are still the norm. It’s pretty difficult to beat a box that’s not wasting any CPU cycles on anything besides the Linux kernel and Apache!
Here’s a rather informative post on how to reduce the bandwidth usage of your website. I’m not anywhere near the point where it’s a problem for me, but it’s still nice to know…
