Some Useful Stuff For Web Developers

Web

Sometimes people, who develop web sites, need to create a wright color scheme for those. “The WellStyled Workshop” allows you to choose color scheme based on specified color.
Other tool – “Color Blender” – allows you get up to ten tints of two colors. It’s very useful when you have already chosen the color sheme and need to expand it.
And finally, I’d like to say about project “VisiBone”. It contains free samples of color / font references for web designers, HTML / CSS / JavaScript / DOM cards etc. All of them are available as hardcopies.
I’m sure those tools will make life of web developers easier.

Daylight Saving Time

Time

I had very strange problem today morning with convetion string to date. I’ve spent about 2 ours before I found what was a problem. The problem became apparent because we put a clock one hour back. But our DateTime module uses difference between local time and G.M.T. So, for all dates which are creater than 31/10/04 it works correct, but for other it returns wrong date (minus one day). So, I needed to find formula to calculate period of Daylight Saving Time and I found quite good resource – Daylight Saving Time. You can read there about history of Daylight Saving Time, its utility and etc.

What your choice of Linux distribution says about you

RedHat Logo

What your choice of Linux distribution can say about you? Interesting? Let’s see RedHat:
“Red Hat is not synonymous with Linux, but many of its users believe that it is. Long the king of the Linux street, Red Hat is most popular with middle-of-the-road types who always end up following along with the crowd, even when everyone in the crowd is wearing a silly hat. Red Hat is very strict about the licensing of the apps it includes with the distribution, but doesn’t seem to mind abandoning customers who are not large corporations.”
Try to find your Linux distribution 🙂

New movies in Limassol cinemas

Collateral
House of the Dead

Two new movies have started on this weekend: a crime drama “Collateral” with Tom Cruise in role of a contract killer Vincent and a horror “House of the Dead”.
In my opinion, only “Collateral” deserves your attention. I didn’t like Tom Cruise. But after I had seen “Vanilla Sky” and “Interview with the Vampire” I have changed my opinion.
Also, you can still watch fire thriller “Man in Fire” (hightly recomend), drama “Open Water” and thriller “The Bourne Supremacy”.
Have a look detailed cinema schedule.
Enjoy.

SourceForge was upgraded

SF logo

Many of you know the best resource for hosting of open source projects. Sure, it’s SourceForge.
Recently, sourceforge team has upgraded server software.

Old configuration: Debian Potato Linux, kernel 2.4.x, GNU libc 2.2.1, Apache 1.3.26, Perl 5.005_03, PHP 4.1.2, Python 1.5.2, Tcl 8.0
New Configuration: Fedora Core 2 Linux, kernel 2.6.x, GNU libc 2.3.3, Apache 2.0.51, Perl 5.8.3, PHP 4.3.8, Python 2.3.3, Tcl 8.4.5.
For more details, see here.
Hope that this upgrade will allow Sourceforge to be some better!