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Hump Day Web Links
Every Wednesday, I'll be posting links, tutorials, or sites that I find useful to the Quo Vadimus blog.I'm going to make a concerted effort to post this every week and since I know we all have different skills/interests, the weekly links will have a general theme. Since this is the first week, and Sitepoint just finished their CSS week, I'll posting links to the excellent articles they had all week about our favorite styling language. Read the full post for the links. Read full Post . . .
Should Links Open In A New Window?
Web trends and practices change so often, it's hard to keep up. Communicating the latest in best practices with laypeople (read:clients) is made even more difficult--"But company X has a flash intro!" One of the most challenging parts of working as an independent developer is clearly articulating best practices and explaining in clear terms why it's the best way to go.
With that in mind, I'll occassionally be posting articles I find on the web that do a good job of explaining the pros and cons of frequent issues that come up during discovery and throughout the developement process.
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How to Build Your Own Google Gadget
We love us some Google here at Quo Vadimus. Not one day goes by that I don't check Gmail, keep up with my ever-growing list of feeds with Reader and the many other wonderful tools over there. Lately, I've been playing around with iGoogle as my home page and so far am very impressed with the enormous amount of gadgets they offer.
Like most web developers, the first thing I did was check out their API to see if I couldn't develop a gadget or two.
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Automounting Windows Partitions in Ubuntu Hardy
Unlike recent versions of Ubuntu, the new Hardy Haron doesn't automatically mount other partitions you may have on your hard drive. I've gotten so used to everything "just working" on Ubuntu, that I had forgotten how to set this up. I think the last time I had to edit my fstab file was when I was using slackware 8! Anyway, I'm sure there are post all over the web on how to do this, but I'm just posting it here mainly so I wont forget 
It's actually incredibly easy.
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