Yostivanich

“mPDF is a PHP class which gen­er­ates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML. It is based on FPDF, HTML2FPDF, and UFPDF, with a num­ber of enhancements.”

“Main­tained cor­rectly, your blog is the one tool that will get you the most traf­fic, and it’s the tool over which you have the most con­trol. If you set out with the inten­tion of post­ing three to five times per week, within a year, you will begin see­ing sig­nif­i­cant activ­ity around your site. Within two to three years, you could eas­ily be an author­ity in your par­tic­u­lar niche.” I need to work on this.

“FANCY a three-day week­end — not just once in a while but week in week out? You may think your bosses would never agree to it, but the evi­dence sug­gests that employ­ers, employ­ees and the envi­ron­ment all ben­e­fit.” I totally vote for it.

“Three men have been arrested in con­nec­tion with an alleged plot to launch an attack in the United States, the US Jus­tice Depart­ment says. The men are accused of mak­ing false state­ments related to “a mat­ter involv­ing inter­na­tional and domes­tic ter­ror­ism”, the state­ment said. US media have reported that the inves­ti­ga­tion was focus­ing on a pos­si­ble plan to attack a pub­lic area in New York. ”

A nerd is at the cen­ter of intel­li­gence, social inep­ti­tude and obsession.

“US Sec­re­tary of Defense Robert Gates has rejected the claim that a deci­sion to shelve a plan for mis­sile defence in Europe was a con­ces­sion to Rus­sia. A new sys­tem will be able to pro­vide such a defence sooner and more effec­tively, he said. But he said the sys­tem, designed to deal with long-range mis­siles, would not have been installed before 2017, and that a new sys­tem announced by Pres­i­dent Obama this week would pro­vide bet­ter protection.”

“The Jus­tice Depart­ment said that while the agree­ment would pro­vide many ben­e­fits to the pub­lic, it also raised sig­nif­i­cant issues regard­ing class-action, copy­right and antitrust law.”

“A Fox News Chan­nel pro­ducer has been caught in a behind-the-scenes video ral­ly­ing the crowd dur­ing last weekend’s 9/12 protest in Wash­ing­ton.” Way to main­tain that jour­nal­is­tic integrity.

“Fight­ing in Yemen is reported to be con­tin­u­ing despite a con­di­tional cease­fire called by the gov­ern­ment in its con­flict with north­ern Shia rebels.”

“Usabil­ity has long been the red­headed stepchild of soft­ware design. It’s a shame, but it’s easy to see why. Faced with the grow­ing com­plex­ity of OS plat­forms, lan­guages, pro­to­cols, and stan­dards, pro­gram­mers tend to focus on issues like algo­rithm design, abstrac­tion, and code reuse first, UI sec­ond. They design unit tests to ver­ify each fea­ture in iso­la­tion before they ever look at the big pic­ture. Sim­ply put, if most cus­tom appli­ca­tion UIs look like they were designed by teams of engi­neers, it’s because they were.” I agree.

“A mul­ti­s­e­lect wid­get for mootools.”

“So here’s where we stand. Bank of Amer­ica is unwill­ing to do a loan mod­i­fi­ca­tion, despite hav­ing taken bil­lions of dol­lars in TARP fund­ing, which was sup­posed to go towards loan mod­i­fi­ca­tions. They would pre­fer to demand com­pletely unre­al­is­tic pay­ments and force repossession/eviction on a fam­ily than to adjust to the real­ity of the Amer­i­can econ­omy, even tem­porar­ily. Forc­ing the evic­tion and repos­ses­sion will give them an asset of neg­li­gi­ble value, com­pared to the over-time ben­e­fit of the loan mod­i­fi­ca­tion. They are happy to rely on bul­ly­ing, scare tac­tics, and bru­tal­ity, and seem to feel that they can crush peo­ple at will. Point being, in mov­ing directly to repos­sess with­out notice, Bank of Amer­ica is in vio­la­tion of sev­eral laws, and in the way they addressed me, they’re in vio­la­tion of sev­eral oth­ers.” This is a real hor­ror story.

“Fun­da­men­tally, US immi­gra­tion pol­icy is a com­plete night­mare. All the vested inter­ests, all the religious/social/conservative argu­ments, all the ani­mos­ity, it’s all a night­mare. And it’s much more the third-rail of US pol­i­tics than even health care or social secu­rity. Even though the Shrub had mas­sive majori­ties in both houses of con­gress, he still couldn’t push through even the most minor (to me) immi­gra­tion reforms. What hope do a bunch of VCs have?” Stop reg­u­lat­ing moral issues.

“The pro­lif­er­a­tion of per­sonal com­put­ers, iPods, cell­phones, game con­soles and all the rest amounts to the fastest-growing source of power demand in the world. Amer­i­cans now have about 25 con­sumer elec­tronic prod­ucts in every house­hold, com­pared with just three in 1980.” Crazy.

“The com­pany sends out 16.5 mil­lion invoices each month, but the accel­er­ated rate of signups in August made it pos­si­ble to imag­ine con­vert­ing the entire cus­tomer base to paper­less in only 15 months — and fully real­ize the poten­tial annual sav­ings of 10.8 mil­lion pounds of paper, equiv­a­lent to 13,500 trees (T-Mobile will talk only of trees to be saved, not dol­lars).” I’m totally paper­less, or as much as I can be.

“The world’s first ant colony to achieve sen­tience calls off the search for us.”

“Tech­ni­cally, this endorse­ment does not have to say any­thing about the future prospects of the tags in Microsoft prod­ucts, let alone the method Microsoft will choose. Most likely, the com­pany will opt to go the Apple way, and use the DirectShow/Media Foun­da­tion frame­works.” Well some decent news.

“Fif­teen years after Jef­frey P. Bezos founded the com­pany as an online book­store, Ama­zon is set to cross a sig­nif­i­cant thresh­old. Some­time later this year, if cur­rent trends con­tinue, world­wide sales of media prod­ucts — the books, movies and music that Ama­zon started with — will be sur­passed for the first time by sales of other mer­chan­dise on the site. (That tran­si­tion already occurred this year in its North Amer­i­can busi­ness.)” Ama­zon is already my online Wal-Mart.

“French Pres­i­dent Nico­las Sarkozy will urge fel­low G20 lead­ers to intro­duce a spe­cial tax to reduce risky behav­iour by banks, the BBC has learned. Mr Sarkozy wants a levy known as a Tobin Tax to be applied to every finan­cial trans­ac­tion. The move is aimed at cut­ting exces­sively spec­u­la­tive trades and encour­ag­ing long-term decision-making. But senior EU offi­cials told the BBC that the chances of get­ting a global agree­ment were “less than min­i­mal”.” Doesn’t seem like the right idea.