Amazon.com has just released a beta version of Kindle for PC. This free application allows you to purchase and read Amazon Kindle e-books on your PC. If you also own their Kindle reader, the application will sync with your existing account, making any e-books purchased through Amazon available both on your PC and your Kindle.
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Amazon Kindle for PC
Komodo Edit 5.2.0 Released
The 5.2.0 version of Komodo Edit has just been released. In addition to some bug fixes and UI features, the release notes indicate that support for PHP 5.3.0 has been added, including code completions for name spaces and syntax coloring of latest keywords (“namespace”, “use”, “as”, etc…).
(FYI, this is the editor I’m currently using, but [...]
Book List Application
As something I’m doing just because I want to and as a learning experience, I’m in the beginning stages of creating a web application where users can manage data on books: books they own, books they’ve read, and books they want to read. Assuming I stick with it, I figure I’ll post occasional articles here [...]
Upgrade WordPress to Avoid Potential Exploit
If you run any WordPress blogs, be sure to upgrade your software to the latest version (2.8.4 as of this writing) to avoid an exploit which may place your blog or web site at risk. See the article at “Lorelle on WordPress” for more info. Either use the upgrade link on your WordPress blog’s control [...]
NetBeans: Opening a Non-Project File
As I discussed earlier, I’ve been playing around some with NetBeans 6.5 for PHP IDE. While overall I have liked it a lot, one thing that was holding me back was that it did not seem to be possible to simply open a file for editing unless it was part of a defined project.
I figured [...]
NCAA Tourney Results Generator
Just because I could, last night I cobbled together a PHP script to generate randomized results for this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Though randomized, each game result is weighted in favor of the lower seed via some questionable mathematics.
Some day if I clean up the code so that it’s not too embarassing to be [...]
Stupid Windows Update Reboot
This has practically nothing to do with PHP, other than it could save you some grief should you be editing a PHP file when Windows finishes auto-installing an update and decides to automatically reboot. (What idiot at M$ decided that any upgrade could be so important that it should ever reboot a PC without the [...]