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Share code with pastie! September 4, 2008

I’m often discussing Javascript/PHP/HTML in a chat window and usually paste chunks of code I want to show the other people into chat.  Problem is, quite often the recipient gets smileys all through code or it does’t render properly on their chat client or the snippet gets lost along the way.

http://www.pastie.org/ looks like a pretty sweet way to share those snippets while maintaining code highlighting, formatting and also for keeping it referenced for later usage.  It’s a free service (donations accepted) so pretty handy for quickly showing off your latest ubersauce function.!

The IE Deathmarch! August 27, 2008

A friend sent me this link earlier today, http://iedeathmarch.org/.  Basically they’ve set a deadline for IE 6 to die, so to speak.  March 2009!  I really do hope the browser does die off soon because it is a constant thorn in the side of developers who create valid HTML and CSS only to see it break in Internet Explorer 6.
As they point out on the site…  IE 6 is OLD.

Internet Explorer 6 will be SEVEN years old on August 27th. It came out a few weeks before the Twin Towers fell. It came out before the Nintendo GameCube. It came out before the first iPod.

Smashing Magazine is still down! August 18, 2008

Smashing magazine is probably one of the best web design tutorial sites on the internet.  Some great stuff on it, but for last 4-6 hrs the site has been down!

This is a very popular site so I am guessing it has about 10 servers to deal with whats probably 400k visitors a month (according to compete.com).  So for it to be down this long might mean large data center issue or DOS attack…  Hopefully back soon.  Update, it’s back!  Only down for 2 days I guess.