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Meet The Hardy Heron: What's New in Ubuntu 8.04

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (long-term support) launched on April 24th for desktops and servers. There is something for everyone in this version, but the LTS release will have particular appeal to enterprises. As one corporate user said to me, "I have been waiting for the release of Ubuntu 8.04, because I am using Ubuntu 6.06 on my company laptop and we have to install exclusively long term support releases." The LTS release assures a reliable upgrade paths twice a year with security updates maintained for a full five years.

Perl: Another Round with Hashes

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Poll: Do you check the download speed of the pages you build?

It's one thing to state that you design fast loading pages, but do you really? The best way to tell is to check the speed of your pages and find out. You can do this with Dreamweaver or with WebSiteOptimization.com. Keeping your pages loading quickly is important - do you walk the walk?

Perl Pragma Primer

A bug in my Simple Comments script got me thinking this week about the use of pragmas in Perl; specific instructions that we can embed in Perl code, depending on our needs and preferences, that allow our scripts to be compiled and behave differently than they would otherwise. Though we use pragmas in most of our Perl scripts (one in particular is recommended for almost all scripts, especially those of beginners), we rarely think about them. How exactly do pragmas work? When we add the simple:

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Standardize your CSS workflow

One thing that novice Web designers don't realize is that even if you have a very powerful Web editor like Dreamweaver or Expression Web, you still need to think about CSS development from a coder's perspective. Hopefully, someday this will change and editors will be better at CSS development than they are now. (Note: these tools are good at writing CSS, they just aren't perfect.) If you have a plan and a workflow that you follow every time you start to build a CSS Web page, you'll get the best results out of what CSS can do for you.

There are official CSS colors

color wheel CSS introduced a lot of new concepts in the way that we manage Web pages. And one of those things was the list of official color keywords. CSS color keywords are essentially the same as the SVG color keywords, but there are fewer of them. They are also more readily supported by most user agents and browsers. If you have just gotten started using color keywords, you should focus on the official CSS color keywords before moving onto the SVG keywords.

Reader Question: Are tables easier?

"If you build your client a website and the deal is that they will take over the maintenance and all afterwards, wouldn’t it be best to build the site in tables? By this I mean using tables for the layout and CSS for positioning and styling (no nested tables). If your clients are not the tech-savvy, web-savvy clients and you are afraid that

tags will be confusing for them and they will not be able to work with them, would you build the site using tables?"

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Q&A: Matt Mason

We speak to the author of The Pirate’s Dilemma about youth culture, copyright and why he’s happy for you to pirate a copy of his book.

Load-Balanced Clusters

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Janus Friis

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Using Timers to Benchmark PHP Applications

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Poll: Do you use social networking sites?

Many people are finding lots of ways to spend more time online, and social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace are becoming ever more popular. It has taken me some time to really see the value of these types of sites - in fact, in some cases I get frustrated by how much time I end up spending on those sites rather than doing work that needs to be done.

Hand coding is faster says the NYTimes

Personally, I've felt for a long time that writing HTML with a good text editor, like Homesite or BBEdit is faster, in the long run, than using a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver or Expression Web. Well, apparently, I'm not alone. In the April 21st Talk to the Newsroom article, Khoi Vinh, Design Director for the New York Times says:

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