Sam’s random musings

Community News: GoDaddy Offers Free SSL Certs:

Ilia Alshanetsky has a quick new posting that I know a lot of Open Source developers out there will find interesting - especially those looking into doing secure applications.

(Via PHPDeveloper.org.)

We make shitty software: allways a good thing to remember.

UK.Builder.com: Running XPath queries in PHP:

PHP Magazine has a link to a new uk.builder.com article today about using PHP to run XPath queries on your XML documents.

Keep this link for later

(Via PHPDeveloper.org.)

AI: Gradient Mesh - the tool you never use:

Ever wonder what you could do with that Gradient Mesh tool in Adobe Illustrator? It’s one of the most powerful, and yet underused tools in the program.

Here’s a great little tutorial to get you started.

Boy there are some times that I wish I was a good graphic designer, the tools are so powerful, they must be fun to really dig into…

(Via CreativeBits.)

10×10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris

Run your mouse over the images

onegoodmove: Bloggers And The Media Whatever you think of recent Daily Show fare, last nights show was a winner, the topic Bloggers. Daily Kos , Ameriblog, Wonkette, some right-wing Blog and Atrios , who posted a teaser for the show earlier in the evening were featured. CNN and the Washington Post provided fodder for the festivities. James Guckert/Jeff Gannon a charter member of the “Blog Cabin Republicans” was exposed once again, and Steven Colbert/Ted Hitler was simply brillant.

Google Cheat Sheet:

Great collection of Google tips on one page.

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good reference

(Via Daring Fireball Linked List.)

Mars rover finds new type of rock:

The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has discovered a new class of water-altered rock, scientists…

it just amazes me that these little rovers are still going. Way to go NASA

(Via spacetoday.net.)