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I suppose it was only a matter of time. At least he did start off the definition stating that Web 2.0 was simply a marketing term and not an actual thing...

Check out the Video of Google CEO defining Web 3.0.

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski

Many people use the syntax highlighting script, dp.SyntaxHighlighter. I use it for this blog, SitePoint uses a modified version in their articles and blogs, and Yahoo might even use something similar (not entirely sure). Either way, after a while with no updates (and he was updating quite a bit some time ago, so much that it was actually annoying keeping up with the releases). On Friday, May 11th, a new update was released. It's a pretty large update as it now supports both the PRE and TEXTAREA tags. I personally would prefer to use PRE, but the script historically used TEXTAREA as the enclosing HTML tag. The author also moved the code and homepage over to Google Code.

What are you waiting for? Check it out!

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski

Google announced yesterday that their website analytical service is getting an overhaul to allow for easier use, better analysis, and a better overview. I think the new look is a big improvement over the current view that I now have (and have had).

To read more about it, read the Google Analytics' Blog or the entry on Mashable.com. The new version will be rolled out to all current customers within the next few weeks, so if you don't have it yet (myself included), please be patient.

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski

• Print a selective portion of a web page with CSS and the DOM
• A really old article, but a goodie: Typography: The trouble with EN n' EN (and other 'shady' characters)
• Some interesting CSS tips/links
• From the same source as above, but some AJAX tips and tricks
• Linked to from the interesting CSS tips, Got API.com is a web-based developers reference to a VAST amount of documentation
• Also linked from CSS links/tips -- CSS Positioning Lesson
• Dynamically loading Charts (bar, graph, line, pie, etc...) using XML/PHP (or CFML, ASP(.NET), Perl, etc...) and Flash

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski

It's not that I've been enormously busy lately, I just haven't had much to talk about that I felt would be interesting. Today, I ran in to two neat things, and remembered another one.

1 - Ever wanted to allow collaboration within your department (teleconferences on-the-road, telecommute, etc...)? From a quick view of this project, it appears that (with difficulty, mind you), you can...for free* (cost of hardware and labor not included!)! Check out 1videoConference for more information. They have a project page on SourceForge.net (also linked to from their homepage).

2 - While recently trying to figure out if there's an easy way to implement syntax highlighting in an HTML textarea box that is cross-browser compatible, I found ECCO, a web-based text/programming editor. There are plugins to Firefox that do similar things, but this one looks more promising. I honestly don't see a whole lot of merit to this, but it's definitely a really cool proof of concept with some amazing coding (and/or JS hacking).

3 - phpMyBackupPro has recently released a new version after a very long hiatus. I was looking for a quick means to run backups on our MySQL server(s) and didn't want to have to use a GUI to do so...why would I want the troublesome bother of a win32.dll kernel panic error when a database backup was going to run, and getting data is rather simplistic anyway from the command line (and I was too lazy to write my own batch scripts). I found this... It's actually really handy. It allows you to dynamically select which databases/fields you want to backup from any number of different servers...it'll also do error checking to be sure that you're configuration files are properly set. I run a batch script to call the CLI version of this PHP script each Friday night after the library is closed (at slow usage times), and then another batch script to transfer those GZ compressed backups from off my machine to yet another server that gets backed up every few days (you could always let the script delete backups older than X days, and simply copy the backups to an external server, that way there are 3 unique points of failure instead of 2).

There you have it, some possibly useful, somewhat interesting things to report on. Have a great week!

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski