I’m sure you’ve all heard about Amazon.com’s new Online Data Storage Service. I just threw together a PHP 4 compatible class for working with the Amazon S3 web service. It’s based on a proof of concept they had on their site, but it was cumbersome to use. Hopefully this will make life easier for some of us who still use PHP. It relies on the Crypt_HMAC and HTTP_Request PEAR libraries.
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I have a bad feeling about this Javascript workaround for the IE Eolas Patch. This is only my opinion, but hey, I have a blog, so therefore I write. I don’t think it’s kosher for a couple of reasons. The first, and major one, is that using document.write to display primary content on a page is bad form.
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I love Fireworks. I was glad to hear it when Adobe decided to keep developing it. I find it an indispensable tool for web design, and I use it to design complete web sites. I do full layouts in Fireworks, and use them as my “blueprints” for creating the final XHTML/CSS code that runs them.
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I just installed the IE Eolas Patch (KB912945) and I must say I think there’s a lot of misinformation out there about exactly what this patch will do. I’ve read in places that it will block your content, and prevent it from displaying. This isn’t true, at least in my experience.
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