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What is JSON Web Token (JWT)

JWT basics illustrated and explained.

PHP on AWS Elastic Beanstalk | Cameron Stokes’s Blog

A great article and simple way to take advantage os Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk service even if you don't work in Java. I'm working on integrating this approach with Eclipse's AWS Toolkit to access all the server management tasks close to my code. I'l post and update if it turns ugly.

via PHP on AWS Elastic Beanstalk \| Cameron Stokes's Blog \<http://cameronstokes.com/2011/01/20/php-on-aws-elastic-beanstalk/\>__.

While Amazon claims they’re working on other platforms, initially Beanstalk only supports Java applications deployed in the Apache Tomcat 6 container. However…using Quercus, a “100% Java implementation of PHP 5″ from Caucho, we can run PHP using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. All it takes is setting up a simple Maven project.

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www: the origin of the BLINK tag

A very interesting story of the origins of the BLINK tag.

The Origins of the <Blink> Tag

I am widely credited as the inventor of the tag.   For those of you who are relatively new to the Web, the tag is an HTML command that causes text to blink, and many, many people find its behavior to be extremely annoying.    I won't deny the invention, but there is a bit more to the story than is widely known.

Official Google Blog: Holiday templates to keep you organized

| Official Google Blog: Holiday templates to keep you organized | The holidays are upon us, and theres much to do: Gifts to be wrapped, lights to be strung, candles to be lit, and a long list of tasks at the home and the office. A little creativity can come in handy at this time of year. You can save time and money with the Google Docs template gallery for documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Whether youre a small business owner or the chief holiday organizer, the gallery includes a few special templates designed to help you spread a little holiday cheer. Here are a few tips to help you get everything done on time

CherryPy - Trac

CherryPy   - CherryPy is a pythonic, object-oriented HTTP framework.

CherryPy allows developers to build web applications in much the same way they would build any other object-oriented Python program. This results in smaller source code developed in less time.

CherryPy is now more than six years old and it is has proven very fast and stable. It is being used in production by many sites, from the simplest ones to the most demanding ones.

Enhance your Blog Design with JQuery

| Enhance your Blog Design with JQuery | JQuery

JQuery is a JavaScript library that simplies event handling, animation, Ajax interactions and much more. The WordPress admin uses JQuery to enhance a variety of sections - the show/hide tabs in the Write page, the lightbox for the media uploader. So it’s already built into Wordpress, all we need to do is call it from the front end and use it ourselves.

de-co-de: Apache Tomcat connector - mach-o, but wrong architecture

| de-co-de: mach-o, but wrong architecture | If you install the mod_jk.so connector yourself on OS X 10.5 intel you may get the following error.

| httpd: Syntax error on line 484 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 3 of /private/etc/apache2/other/mod_jk.conf: \ | Cannot load /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_jk.so into server: \ | dlopen(/usr/libexec/apache2/mod_jk.so, 10): no suitable image found.\ | Did find:\n\t\ | /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_jk.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture

This error is because apache is compiled as a 64 bit executable and configure builds a 32 bit shared library

perl.com: Hidden Treasures of the Perl Core

an old article but very handy...

| perl.com: Hidden Treasures of the Perl Core | The Perl Core comes with a lot of little modules to help you get thejob done. Many of these modules are not well-known. Even some of the well-known modules have some nice features that are often overlooked. In this article, we'll dive into many of these hidden treasures of the Perl Core.

Filmmaker's Tool Kit: Creating a Movie with Web 2.0

| Filmmaker's Tool Kit: Creating a Movie with Web 2.0 | In this post I will show you the tools you need to go from idea to finished film using as many web 2.0 products as possible. In June, I wrote about 8 online video editors that could be used to slice together your masterpiece. But there's more to being Kubrick than editing. You have to write your film, cast it, shoot it, edit it, and distribute it to the masses. Web 2.0 applications and services can help with (nearly) all of these phases.

Everything You Need To Know To Get Started With Content Management Systems -- InformationWeek

| Everything You Need To Know To Get Started With Content Management Systems -- InformationWeek | Free and low-cost enterprise wiki tools and open-source content management systems are plentiful. Here's a quick guide to the available options.

It can be easy to dump thousands of dollars into a content management system that no one in your company will want to (or can figure out how to) use. Here are some solutions that keep costs in check but deliver a useful, easy-to-use system with lots of capabilities.

Please backup your hard drive now… twice - goodCRIMETHINK

| Please backup your hard drive now… twice at goodCRIMETHINK | There is a tightness in my chest, and I am crying right now. I have just suffered a catastrophic data loss for the second time in my life. Fool me once, shame on, shame on, fool me can’t get fooled again, or something like that.

In college, a freak transformer explosion and subsequent power surge killed my hard drive. From that point on, I swore to always back up my data, and mostly I did just that. As of mid this summer, I had a ridiculous mirrored RAID drive setup with external SATA drives and all sorts of doohickies. I had about 1 terabyte of data backed up locally and had started to upload it offsite to a service called Mozy. But then I started selling off my desktop in preparation for my move from Boston to NYC. I purchased a LaCie 1TB Big Disk and put all my media files and documents from my “Atlas” drive on it. That drive literally held my world on its shoulders.

CSS Juice » The Color Of Design - Important Points About Color Theory

| CSS Juice » The Color Of Design - Important Points About Color Theory | Guest post by Simon Ward from Pingable Blog, where he writes about blogging tips, SEO and web design.

Some color combinations work and others look absolutely terrible; this is a subject that anyone interested in design should consider examining. The following article looks at different types of color schemes, how to use them and why they work.

Official Google Blog: Controlling how search engines access and index your website

| Official Google Blog: Controlling how search engines access and index your website | I'm often asked about how Google and search engines work. One key question is: how does Google know what parts of a website the site owner wants to have show up in search results? Can publishers specify that some parts of the site should be private and non-searchable? The good news is that those who publish on the web have a lot of control over which pages should appear in search results.

Official Google Blog: Robots Exclusion Protocol: now with even more flexibility

| Official Google Blog: Robots Exclusion Protocol: now with even more flexibility | This is the third and last in my series of blog posts about the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP). In the first post, I introduced robots.txt and the robots META tags, giving an overview of when to use them. In the second post, I shared some examples of what you can do with the REP. Today, I'll introduce two new features that we have recently added to the protocol.

Daring Fireball: BBColors 1.0

| Daring Fireball: BBColors 1.0 | One feature still lacking in BBEdit which I’ve wanted for years is a way to easily save and switch between different text coloring schemes. BBEdit’s text colors have been configurable ever since syntax coloring appeared in BBEdit 4.0 in 1996, but there’s no means to save or change them en masse. Nor is there any way to share color schemes with other users.

So, I’ve put together a little command-line tool called BBColors; it lets you save, load, and share text color preference schemes for BBEdit and TextWrangler.

Installing the W3C HTML Validator on Mac OS X

| Installing the W3C HTML Validator on Mac OS X | Building a website is a complicated process, and testing your finished product | on every possible browser can be even more daunting. However, because modern | browsers such as Safari, Mozilla, and Internet Explorer 6 are compliant with the | World Wide Web Consortiums W3C standards, testing your pages with the W3C | Validation Tool is a great way to ensure that your pages work with modern | browsers. The W3C Validator provides a line-by-line level of feedback, such as | error information with references to the standards, on any URL you submit or | HTML file you upload.

Become Your Own Web Host in 75 Steps

Become Your Own Web Host in 75 Steps

One of the biggest issues involved with becoming a web publisher is the question of hosting.  With an internet clogged with false hosting review sites, hosting companies trying to rip you off, and hosting companies run by 14 year olds, the majority of web publishers are at the mercy of random chance when it comes to finding a quality host.  To solve this huge problem and to grant freedom to all, we have come up with 75 extremely specific steps that will get you up and running with a *nix box (running FreeBSD), along with the most recent versions of Apache, Perl, PHP, and MySQL.

Google Sitemaps

| Google Blog: Webmaster-friendly | We're undertaking an experiment called Google Sitemaps that will either fail miserably, or succeed beyond our wildest dreams, in making the web better for webmasters and users alike. It's a beta "ecosystem" that may help webmasters with two current challenges: keeping Google informed about all of your new web pages or updates, and increasing the coverage of your web pages in the Google index.

Initially, we plan to use the URL information webmasters supply to further improve the coverage and freshness of our index. Over time that will lead to our doing an even better job of delivering more search results from more websites.

New study on graphic communications market released

MacMinute: New study on graphic communications market released

| July 17, 2003 - 08:15 EDT | IDG World Expo and TrendWatch Graphic Arts today announced results of their Spring 2003 study of the creative markets during a presentation at Macworld CreativePro Expo. A few highlights of the study show that 82% of respondents use the Mac OS as their primary system, 17% have upgraded to Mac OS X, while only 22% said they use a Mac as their primary system at Internet design and development firms.