Windows 7 will allow you to take and save screenshots in a couple seconds through a built-in tool called “Snipping Tool”. Win7 runs a lot faster and I was able to open more than 200 firefox tabs without noticing any “lag”. This is truly a sign that this might improve your daily blogging life.

AeroPeek will help you to switch between windows and applications and Aero Snap will help you to compare content in two different browser windows. Multitouch-panning might not be used commonly right now, but might also change your daily blogging life as soon as you get a fancy touchscreen monitor.

Want to find out more about Windows 7? http://windows7themes.net

One of the best AJAX tutorials that helped me to learn the basics:

Ajax Tutorial Basics

Seriously after working through this tutorial I understood a lot more. I highly recommend to buy a book too, because this is a very complex topic but also a very important thing that might help you to boost your career.

Go AJAX Go!

Interesting details about linux dependencies and how to figure out what you need to compile / build a new module e.g. Python :

http://www.comptechdoc.org/

If you have MySQL5 on your server, but you need MySQL-Python (like me), then you gotta install Python 2.6.1 (latest update) with a different prefix. If you simply install it via yum you might mess up your whole system!

Good info about linux configure and make:
CentOS.org
linuxforums.org/

Most important info, if you have CentOS on your server you gotta install the tk-devel package first
velocityreviews.com/

If you want to validate a form and you have to check if all variables are set you have to keep a few things in mind:

a) If you disable a input field so users can only see the content you will not be able to fetch the value via $_POST

disabled=”disabled” if you add this to a input field and you submit the form you won’t be able to fetch it via $_POST

Instead use readonly=”true”

b) Textareas are slightly different. You will first have to strip all slashes if you want to fetch the real value of it.

Statistics can come in handy. Especially web developers have to know how common Safari or Google Chrome is nowadays.

Here is the full report.