So, you want to be a Gmail ninja?
If you got 100 new messages, how long would it take you to get through them all? An hour? Five minutes? How would you find the important ones, reply to the ones that require an immediate reply, and mark the ones that you needed to take care of later? Would you use stars, filters, keyboard shortcuts, labels? What about Gmail Labs like tasks or canned responses?
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/so-you-want-to-be-gmail-ninja.html
My preferred Forum engine is PHPBB3 (and they do have a history of getting hacked previously) but if your forum is on (Simple Machines) SMF read how PHPUGPH’s forum was hacked in here but is now backed online.
Update: SMF has posted a related security bulletin previously. So for Forum admins make sure to watch out for security announcements coming from your chosen apps.
Jonee, Wacky Long Haired Admin
When looking for a web hosting plan- do you really need to look for a plan that would offer you so much disk space?
As a web hosting client before as well, my unsolicited opinion is- please don’t! I have come across companies offering unlimited disk space in their plans but when you read through their terms of service they have explicit limitations stated in there (whether it is a limit of the number of files or inodes or that they would be charging for excess usage of disk space). So technically it is not unlimited at all. I even come across one that offers such but when you look at the cpanel of your hosting plan it is stated there that their machine is just an i686 or P4.
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As a web developer, my usual environment when coding is Firefox in my preferred OS of Ubuntu with a 1024 width resolution. But reading through statistics like this, would let you think that you should be coding for Microsoft Platform of at least IE7- the most popular browser there is based on statistics.
Firefox is slowly catching up and what you basically see on Firefox- Ubuntu is the same in Windows – Firefox. So not much problem there until you view your site in Internet Explorer browser specially in IE6. There are still a lot of people using XP until now with IE6 the default browser that comes with it. So IE6 cannot be bypassed in your tests.
But IE6 is hard to code for. There are png transparency issues and unicode html characters not able to render. Even the peso character sign would just be a square in IE6. So I just use either PHP or a peso image. And darn there would be a lot of layout problems you will encounter. (Thankfully there is Xenocode browser sandbox to be able to test your sites in different browsers without the tedious task of installing each version separately.)
To be able to reach out to as many audience, a web developer or designer should definitely check their sites on most browsers.
Jonee, Wacky Long Haired Admin
I just lost a special dog Sixto (April 2006 – 19 Jun 2009, the dog with six toes at both his back legs, son of Lucy) 
May he live a better life from now on that he is with a better owner. We will miss you so much Sixto.
Here are two of the rest of my pets. Lucy and Negro.
Jonee, Wacky Long Haired Admin
This is a slightly delayed news that greeted me when I logged into the admin section of this blog. Wordpress 2.8 was released on 10 June 2009. As usual, the list of new features is quite impressive.
But as a general rule in upgrading any web application (specially with a database backend)
Good thing is, upgrade of Wordpress is not harder than any software I know in the planet. Just one click then i have a spanking new version of Wordpress!
Jonee, Wacky Long Haired Admin
