Tough being a pro photographer …

Some classic ones in there…

(Via dangerousmeta!.)

Running the new iPhone 2.0 software? Want to grab a screenshot of something? Turns out it’s amazingly easy. Hold the Home button down, then tap the power button on the top of the phone. The screen will flash white, and that’s it — the screenshot has been taken.

Sweet feature

(Via MacOSXHints.com.)

Ryan Singer:

The lesson: Once your user base has grown beyond a certain point, you cannot take features away from them. They will freak out. Whether the feature is good or bad, once you launch it you’ve married it.

Worth the read and worth remembering always, it is the danger with reactive development practices and failing to measure all new features against a few metrics, inlcuding

1. Does it reduce support costs (thanks Matt)
2. Does it support the long term goals and plans
3. Do we want to support it forever

(Via Daring Fireball.)

Computer systems in general and your web application especially, never store passwords in plain-text. This is a very basic concept - if you don’t quite grasp the reason behind not storing passwords as plain-text I’ll take the stance of security expert Matasano Chargen and advise you to use someone else’s security system (Redux, for instance). I’m sure we are all aware of the fact we should not be storing passwords at all; rather, we should be storing a hashed string representing that password. By hashing the password, we theoretically create a one-way encryption mechanism whereby the original password can not be restored. We then validate users by using the same hashing algorithm on their input and check if the two hash strings match.

Hashing is not the complete answer, worth reading on…

(Via MichaelWales.com.)

So the snake is back to visit. Hi snake

In yard and about a yard long…

More Pictures

REGULAR EXPRESSIONS CHEAT SHEET (V2)

MOD_REWRITE CHEAT SHEET (V2)

PHP CHEAT SHEET (V2)

CSS CHEAT SHEET (V2)

(Via ILoveJackDaniels.com.)

Think there’s no way you could do this? I think you can! All you need is a good plan, plenty of discipline and about 30 minutes a week to achive this goal!

The girls and I are starting to see if we can finish. Here are our initial tests

• Katie ( age 8 ) 24 pushups
• Abby ( age 10 ) 33 pushups
• Sam ( age 39 ) 37 pushups

Now you should know they swim year round and are really fit to begin with…

Before you hit send on that next email, perhaps you should run down this list, just to be sure:

(Via .)

A visual history of imperialism in the Middle East for the last 5,000 years.

(Via twitter.)