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m3talink updates for April 30th:

• Khoi Vinh — Talk to the Newsroom — The New York Times — Reader Questions and Answers - New York Times is It?s our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or TextMate, to ?hand code? everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. We just find it yields better and faster results.
• Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 - web page statistics and survey trends for page size and web objects is The size of the average web page has more than tripled since 2003.

m3talink updates for April 25th through April 28th:

• WinMerge is WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Windows. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.
• Adobe Dreamweaver Extensions - SVN/CVS is If you’re using popular Subversion, the dominant open-source version control system, now you can use it inside Adobe Dreamweaver!
• Scaling Twitter » SlideShare is Scaling Twitter - Slides for a talk presented at the SDForum Silicon Valley Ruby Conference 2007 on Twitter’s challenges scaling Rails.
• How to scale your web app » SlideShare is Scaling web applications, as present at Barcamp London 2 by George Palmer
• foca’s d20 at master ? GitHub is A model of the d20 roleplaying rules system

m3talink updates for April 24th:

• ApacheTop - Trac is a curses-based top-like display for Apache information, including requests per second, bytes per second, most popular URLs, etc.
• Apache module mod_status is module provides information on server activity and performance

m3talink updates for April 23rd:

• Toodledo :: How to use Jott with Toodledo is Using Jott, it is possible to add a task to your todo list by speaking into your mobile phone.
• Jott? - Jott to Google calendar is How do I use Jott to Google Calendar?
• Jott? - Jott to LiveJournal is How do I use Jott to Live Journal?
• Jott? - Jott to Twitter is How do I use Jott to Twitter?
• Jott? - Jott to Wordpress is How do I use Jott to Wordpress?
• Jott? - Official Site is a webservice that converts your voice into emails, text messages, reminders, lists and appointments.
• Toodledo :: A to-do list to organize your tasks is an easy to use, web-based to-do list. Get organized, stay motivated, and be more productive.
• Brain Murmurs - Services - Mentat is the only professional organizer designed to let you manage work-related tasks and tasks outside of work in one unified interface. Since Mentat shows you all of the projects of which you are a member, you have full

m3talink updates for April 18th through April 21st:

• Load Testing Tool - Web Stress Testing Software is OpenLoad? is the industry?s only truly easy-to-use and affordable enterprise Web test tool for automated load and stress testing and performance monitoring. Script-free, enabling you to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize the user experience
• WordPress Themes is
• IMAPSize is is a freeware Windows application that allows you to quickly and efficiently manage your IMAP mail accounts. It is not another mail client.

m3talink updates for April 10th through April 17th:

• blog.txt · plaintxt.org is Blog.txt is a theme for WordPress designed to impact your content in the most minimal way: using whitespace as a major design element, guiding the reader to the content.
• RegExr: Online Regular Expression Testing Tool is Real-time regex utility

m3talink updates for April 9th:

• What WordPress Does Right is Lauren?s Product Management 101, using WordPress as the example
• ongoing · The Web?s the Place is Given a choice between client and browser, the people wanted the browser…Browsers are more usable because they?re less flexible.
• Linux.com :: Puppeee: Puppy for your Eee PC is
• Using Bash’s History Effectively is I will attempt here to focus on only one feature of Bash, its command history. There are other good documents on the other features of Bash. If you’re interested in anything other than the command history/recall, then this document really isn’t for you.
• Tip: Prompt magic is In this tip, Daniel Robbins will show you how to get your shell prompt just the way you like it, as well as how to dynamically update your X terminal’s title bar.
• Blog.ubrious » Blog Archive » Best Bash Prompt is
• 9 Words That Don’t Mean What You Think | Cracked.com is

m3talink updates for April 8th:

• Attach icons to anything with CSS is
• Conditional CSS - not just for IE - CSS Insider is
• Niall Doherty » Blog » Coda-Slider is Cool web interface with jscript: slides between pages.

Today I learned the difference between make clean and make distclean. In short

• if the binary was made with make, the source files can be cleaned with “make clean”
• if the binary was made with configure, the source files can be cleaned with “make distclean”

Here is the official answer:

What Gets Cleaned

The GNU Makefile Standards specify a number of different clean rules. See Standard Targets for Users.

Generally the files that can be cleaned are determined automatically by Automake. Of course, Automake also recognizes some variables that can be defined to specify additional files to clean. These variables are MOSTLYCLEANFILES, CLEANFILES, DISTCLEANFILES, and MAINTAINERCLEANFILES. When cleaning involves more than deleting some hard-coded list of files, it is also possible to supplement the cleaning rules with your own commands. Simply define a rule for any of the mostlyclean-local, clean-local, distclean-local, or maintainer-clean-local targets (see Extending). A common case is deleting a directory, for instance, a directory created by the test suite:

     clean-local:

             -rm -rf testSubDir

As the GNU Standards aren’t always explicit as to which files should be removed by which rule, we’ve adopted a heuristic that we believe was first formulated by François Pinard:

• If make built it, and it is commonly something that one would want to rebuild (for instance, a .o file), then mostlyclean should delete it.
• Otherwise, if make built it, then clean should delete it.
• If configure built it, then distclean should delete it.
• If the maintainer built it (for instance, a .info file), then maintainer-clean should delete it. However maintainer-clean should not delete anything that needs to exist in order to run ‘./configure && make’.

We recommend that you follow this same set of heuristics in your Makefile.am.

I found this from this post when I Googled “distclean”.

m3talink updates for April 7th:

• GitSvnComparsion - GitWiki is
• Takis blog: Why GIT? is
• Distributed vs. Centralized Version Control is
• Viratics » Blog Archive » Git vs Subversion is
• Version Control Blog ? GIT, Releases, Use cases, SCM features and concepts, Subversion, branching and merging, Bazaar/bzr, Mercurial, Ideas, SCM tools comparison, Microsoft Team Foundation, version control for ordinary users, Books, CVS, database schema is
• Useful Firefox Extensions For Developers is Here is a list of useful Firefox extensions for web developers and programmers.