Why? Because the existing Perl Markdown tools just aren't flexible enough. They bundle up Markdown parsing with HTML conversion all in one API, and I need to do more than convert to HTML.

Law enforcement agencies that oversee computer security are well versed in the many permutations of “phishing,” the scam in which fraudsters try to lure people to a counterfeit replica of their bank’s Web site, for example, and have them part with their user names and passwords.

Nurses are an essential part of hospitals and can function as a communication lifeline to patients, doctors, and others in the facility. These days, there are lots of different tools you can use to communicate, but Twitter is an exciting one to consider, just because it holds so much potential. Read on, and you’ll learn about 101 different ...

Have you ever taken pictures where the background was much brighter than your subject, or seen shots where the subject just leaped out of the image?  Or have you ever spent hours fiddling with multiple contrast, brightness, levels and other adjustment layers to achieve a look that you want?  The curves tool in Photoshop will allow you to do all ...

Teachers and parents who view video games as addictive diversions that lead to teenage sloth should think again, a group of U.S. scientists says. After a year studying the games and their effect on children, the Federation of American Scientists said a new vision of video games could redefine education and captivate students so they will spend ...

Defining precisely what the term language oriented programming means in context of the F# language would be difficult, so I will instead explain a few examples that will demonstrate how I understand it. In general, the goal of language oriented programming is to develop a language that would be suitable for some (more specific) class of tasks and ...

Siempre digo que pronunciar bien en inglés no sólo es importante para que te entiendan, sino para que tú puedas entender lo que te dicen. Sí, funciona en los dos sentidos. Algunas pocas personas pronuncian mal y, a pesar de ello, pueden entender, pero la gran mayoría de los estudiantes que no entienden inglés también pronuncian mal. Son ...

I have been seeing dulce de leche around the food blogging sphere since I started food blogging and it has always looked and sounded so good! Unfortunately I have had problems finding it. I could not find it for a long time but after I had given up I did come across some and I picked up a jar right away. The dulce de leche was a lot like a ...

How people leave relationships. How people help their loved ones negotiate their final months and years. How we ourselves face the final curtain, as Frank Sinatra would say.

There are a few people in the Web whose work I can't help but watch with significant interest, as I know they are among the more visible people, working in teams with lesser-known colleagues, focusing their effort on moving the Web forward. From DeWitt Clinton, Brett Slatkin, Brad Fitzpatrick, Chris Saad, Dave Winer and David Recordon, to people ...

Spółka akcyjna to w Niemczech jedna z trzech typów spółek kapitałowych. Założenie spółki akcyjnej Niemcy uregulowali w Aktiengesetz (AktG). Następuje ono w trzech etapach –Vergründungsgesellschaft, Vor-AG oraz ostatecznie – powstanie spółki akcyjnej (Aktiengesellschaft).  Niezbędne jest również napisanie statutu spółki ...

Here’s my take: Major Hasan may have been mentally unbalanced — I assume anyone who shoots up innocent people is. But the more you read about his support for Muslim suicide bombers, about how he showed up at a public-health seminar with a PowerPoint presentation titled “Why the War on Terror Is a War on Islam,” and about ...

I started a discussion on twitter a few days back regarding e-books. The discussion was prompted by a question I answered on the Library Web2.0 mailing list (lis-web2@jiscmail.ac.uk) from Helen Leech (Virtual Content Manager - Surrey Library Service). Helen's question was regarding e-books from the Gutenburg Project and how best to import them ...

Photoshop has tons of potential for improving photos in one way or another. No matter how much experience you have with Photoshop there is probably more that you can learn in these areas. This is a categorized collection of tutorials that will show you some new tricks for photo touch-ups.

　　被二�f英严重污染的日本kunugiyama市，曾经是宁静的林区与生态农业区。 　　面对越来越多的垃圾，烧还是不烧，看似是一个艰难的抉择。作为垃圾焚烧技术的先行者，日本也走过了一条曲折的弯路，但最终还是立足于“以人为本”，保障生命的安全。日本的�

In New York City, where the unemployment rate remains at 10.3 percent, the jobless have started leaning hard on coffee shops and bookstores to get out of their tiny one-bedrooms and away from their annoying roommates. In these harsh, career-vanishing times, the members of this laptop brigade do everything they can to re-create the office ...

Nichts gegen Kristina Köhler. Sie ist eine intelligente, sympathische Frau und wird möglicherweise eine gute Familienministerin. Aber merkwürdig ist es schon, wie sie plötzlich Ministerin geworden ist. Nicht deshalb, weil sie sich bisher schon mit Familienpolitik beschäftigt oder weil sie schon lange zur heimlichen Führungsreserve der ...

This KnowledgeBase article explains how to prevent OS X from creating new .DS_Store files when opening folders on remote volumes mounted using SMB/CIFS, AFP, NFS, and WebDAV. The creation of .DS_Store files (and more so, ._AppleDouble files which are not covered in this hint) is frequently the source of complaints against Mac users, who often ...

You guys may remember several months back when I released several sets of Multi-Colored Illustrator Brushes on this site as well as several others. Those brushes quickly became some of the most popular sets of brushes that I’ve ever released. Last summer I spoke at the Front-End Design Conference where I showed the attendees how these sets were ...

Whether your important data lives in the cloud, on your laptop, or on a different operating system, you shouldn't have to use sub-par tools to get at it. These downloads work with every major operating system, along with some not-so-major (mobile) ones.

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It's one of the most "expected" BIG-BANG of Google this year and for year 2010 when its fully released. One of the reason why the Yahoo-Microsoft Tandem was once again stupefied and now scratching their heads.. "WOW GOOGLE BEAT US AGAIN?"

Every day more users move their computing lives from the desktop to the cloud and rely on hosted web applications to store and access email, photos, and documents. But this new frontier involves serious risks that aren't obvious to most.

Hackers could evade most existing antivirus protection by hiding malicious code within ordinary text, according to security researchers. One of the most common ways of hijacking other people's computers is to use "code-injection" attacks, in which malicious computer code is delivered to and then run on victims' machines. Current security measures ...

My favorite moment in the Climategate/Climaquiddick scandal currently roiling the “climate change” racket was Stuart Varney’s interview on Fox News with the actor Ed Begley Jr. — star of the 1980s medical drama St. Elsewhere but latterly better known, as is the fashion with members of the thespian community, as an “ ...

Ce que j’en retiens c’est que cela peut permettre d’automatiser certaines actions (répétitives) à l’enregistrement en base, et donc d’enrichir son modèle et deux coup de cuillère à pot.

Habría que saber por qué caminos improbables llegan a nosotros desde muy lejos las influencias que van a determinar nuestra vocación, nuestra manera de mirar el mundo. En Úbeda, cuando estaba en el último año del instituto, un amigo con el que compartía el amor por la música pop y por la literatura me dio a leer por primera vez un cuento ...

I wrote the first draft of this a long time ago, and I skipped it because tempers seemed high in some places. It seems like things have calmed down, and I think the points are still 100% relevant.

Like it or not, our work lives involve meetings - status meetings, planning conference calls, brainstorming sessions, meetings for the sake of meetings. But a meeting is only as valuable as the action taken after everyone's left the conference room.

This is the third article of our color series of articles. Back in July we had an interview with Igor Asselbergs, renowned color expert with over 20 years of experience who blogs on livelygrey.com and is the current CEO of Colorjinn, a company that develops digital colors tools.

Comenzó su bitácora como un "exorcismo". Ahora es más que un emblema de la crítica al Gobierno cubano. Yoani Sánchez ha transformado la manera de hacer disidencia. Y denuncia que fue golpeada por ello.

IF YOU HAVEN'T been stuck in a cave lately, you will undoubtedly have heard that Windows Vista SP2.1, aka Windows 7, will have an 'XP mode'. Before you jump up and down for joy, you should know that it won't do what you think it will, it is a scam.

Whether you're gearing up for the start of the school year or you're plugging along at your 9 to 5 like usual, we've got a roundup of productivity-centric wallpaper to help you keep focused.

Pour prolonger un peu la journée des blogueurs du monde.fr, je reprends au bond le conseil judicieux d’un lecteur qui suggérait de faire une note sur des séries qui sont passées inaperçues ou qui n’ont pas été suffisamment mises en avant. La liste pourrait être longue et vous pourrez la compléter en section commentaires. Je ...

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WHAT COULD BE MORE AUDACIOUS than to argue that the study of moving images as adaptations of literary works, one of the very first shelters under which cinema studies originally entered the academy, has been neglected? Yet that is exactly what this essay will argue: that despite its venerable history, widespread practice, and apparent influence, ...

Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry’s popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. In the course of tracking down the sources of unlicensed distribution, they found many things, including the copying of his column to alt.fan.dave_barry on usenet; a 2000- ...

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I have been working with T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) lately thanks to the Entity Framework team moving their code generation model over to T4 in Visual Studio 2010. However by default Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 do not include syntax highlighting or intellisense support for T4 files, which makes it rather difficult to work with them (

When a Los Angeles pastor decided his church needed a boost in membership, he did a little soul-searching and decided man's best friend should be part of the fold. Now, his Sunday service at Covenant Presbyterian Church is attracting new parishioners — and their faithful pooches.

November 9 is one of those strange dates haunted by history. On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, signaling the collapse of the Soviet empire. The Nazis organized Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938, beginning their all-out campaign against Jews. On November 9, 1923, Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch was crushed in Munich, and on November 9, 1918, ...

Ed. Note: UniversalGiving is an online giving and action platform that has a novel model of using corporate advisory sources to subsidize payment processing so that they can operate sustainably without taking a cut of online donations. I invited their founder Pamela Hawley to share more about their model, and what it means for the field.

It never ceases to amaze me just how fast the biggest meals go rushing by before our very eyes. As cooks we spend days, even weeks choosing our menu, shopping for our ingredients, and stocking our fridges to the gills with containers filled with our raw materials. We cook and cook our hearts out until the last guest has taken his seat at the table,

The internet stopped being just a collection of hyper-links connecting static bits of information a long time ago. Today the internet is not so much about storing information as it is about communicating and sharing knowledge in ever more efficient ways.

Brenda BrathwaiteI don't know what to make of Brenda; I was kind of dumbfounded and speechless after her presentation. Brenda probably would (and should) take that as a compliment because that is the reaction that a true artist hopes to achieve with a work of art. (Does that make her a true artist or does it make her a work of art?) I will ...

I have been obsessed with french macarons since the first time i saw them. There is something about the texture and colors that lure me in, EVERY single time I come across them. When we were in Paris, I was stopping constantly to peek inside windows to see all the different colors and crazy flavors. And if those melt-in-your-mouth treats weren't 3,

Spring 2.5 introduces an approach for writing annotated Web MVC controllers, which we haven't been blogging about much yet… I'll take the opportunity to give you an overview of what Spring MVC is really about these days.

This is the second in a series of posts on getting started with the new features in Entity Framework 4 based on the demos I did in my session at TechEd Europe in Berlin last week (Nov 2009).

3281d Consulting is pleased to announce that fully packaged installation profile releases are now available for testing on http://d6.project.drupal.org. This feature has enormous potential to expand Drupal adoption to new audiences by significantly lowering the barrier for end users trying to get a customized distribution up and ready for the ...

Wouldn't it be nice if you could double click on a Windows SharePoint Services Solution Package (WSP) CAB in Windows Explorer and it would open just as if it had a CAB extension. This can be done by simply associating any file with a WSP extension to open in the Cabinet File Viewer Shell Extension. The net requirement is just a few Windows ...

Mientras los estímulos nos llegan de fuera, estar motivado es más fácil. El problema empieza cuando las fuerzas, las ganas y la voluntad tienen que partir de uno mismo y se nota que nos falta práctica en esta disciplina.

Ever found yourself in a situation where you want to split the restaurant bill with your buddies, and all want pay by Credit Card. Like you want to get the calculations down to the last penny, or sip of Apple juice? Fret Not, if the Piece of Cake ever comes into existence, it’ll give going Dutch with friends a whole new meaning. By using this ...

Anybody that's ever built a Drupal site knows that it can be confusing browsing through trying to find which modules to use for your site. That is why we have compiled a list of the top Drupal modules that we commonly use on a number of sites we operate. We hope you find this list helpful!

If your browsers work OK, you do not need to disable IPv6. Also, there is nothing wrong with either Ubuntu (Karmic) or IPv6, so if you are experiencing any issues, they are because of your ISP / router / modem.

Being both a Linux and Xbox fan makes for an interesting time. One of the best features of the Xbox is its streaming from a PC on your LAN. There are various features that the Xbox provides for seamless media streaming (be it videos, music or pictures) but it’s not as straightforward as it may seem (at least from what I’ve seen from ...

Gain the expertise needed to understand how the Forex Market works and see why FX trading is different than trading any other asset class. Learn the currency concept. Understand the terminology. Find out the cost and know the basics of trading in the multi-trillion dollar a day market.

Heidi Klum has debuted new daughter Lou to the world, and just like her supermodel mother, the camera already loves her. The Victoria's Secret star and singer husband Seal today released the first pictures of their adorable seven-week-old on their official websites.

Uma das maiores falhas (inclusive minha) em tentar definir o Twitter até o momento baseia-se no fato de que o twitter não tem um uso claro e definido.

What we’re going to do is use Photoshop to apply a blur to the image to mimic the effects of a short depth of field. The Photoshop CS filter lens blur is the one we’ll be using here, but you could also use Gaussian blur, although that one doesn’t seem to give as good results.

This article lists 20 tips to get started with DSLR photography. It is particularly useful to those who are used to point-and-shoot digicams and now want to take the next step in their photography skills.

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Often you hear the term PLN, but don’t even know how to begin developing one. You have friends who use Twitter and say it is the perfect PLN solution. Others claim Facebook does it, still others proclaim educational nings put you in a readily built up PLN and then others point to blogs.

Chances are if you’re in the whole web development business, you’ve heard of HTML 5. It’s being thrown around as the next big thing to hit our computer screens, adding some awesome functionality to what was a pretty static language.

Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) showed off a number of flexible display screen technologies in Taipei on Thursday as part of a show promoting e-readers and e-paper.