So I've been doing a lot of playing with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) lately. I stumbled upon a really good article or two that helps makes more sense out of it a bit. First up is the 3d box model design by Jon Hicks (shown below). The diagram attempts to show users how margin, padding and background all work together. Well, one good thing deserves another so another guy (Douglas) created an interactive version of it which can be found here. Pretty cool. Another great little read I found was "Why tables for layout is stupid." The title may sound...

I found a really good article which outlines some nice tips to scaling PHP. The article is written by George Schlossnagle. In his article he explains why you do not need large DB abstraction layers like PEAR and ADODB and why you should NEVER use relative paths to images. The article can be found here.

I feel sorry for people that sell and buy on Ebay that do not have a working knowledge of the Internet in order to spot a scam. Luckily for this one person, they pulled one of the best documented pranks ever on a scammer on Ebay. It is completely documented with details of what happened. I started reading it, and fell in the floor. Here is the recap of the story. Guy posts powerbook on ebay scammer contacts seller seller figures out real quick it is a scam ...

The following was taken from Linux Magazine from an article written by Jeremy Zawodny. It talks about a litlte known feature of the MyISAM tables in MySQL which allows you to create raid tables. The snippet of the article is publised below. RAID Tables The final variety of MyISAM tables isn't widely known, but can be useful in some circumstances. RAID tables are simply MyISAM tables whose data (.MYD) files have been broken into multiple files. CREATE TABLE mytable ... TYPE=MyISAM RAID_TYPE=STRIPED RAID_CHUNKS=4 RAID_CHUNKSIZE=8 Running that SQL command breaks the MyISAM table into 4 separate files (chunks) that are written...

"Tonight is the last episode of Frasier. This is a really depressing end to a TV season since Friends and Frasier are both signing off for the last time. For the past 11 years, Frasier has been in our living rooms at least once a week. The show has won numerous awards as best comedy and there never seems to be a dull moment. Unless you grew up in the 80's you probably do not remember Cheers, although, you may have seen the re-runs. The character Frasier got his start on Cheers sitting at the bar with Norm. After Cheers...

I am writing this post as I am watching American Idol tonight. I am happy I am typing right now because I sure couldn't speak because my jaw is on the bottom of the floor. I don't know what is going on to be honest. The only thing I can think of is that this has turned into a popularity contest instead of a talent contest. WTF is going on with the voting. I wish they would disclose the freaking numbers. I'm going to say that something is going to come out later on that this is a scandal or...