The big word on the Mac has always been that "It is way more expensive than a regular PC", as emphasized by the recent Microsoft/PC commercials. (You know the ones with regular people shopping for computers -- I'm waiting for the cue card guy from Redomond to end up on film.)

An interesting information graphics / humor site

I don't know if I was overthinking it or just unlucky but it took me a while to "get" this very simple and practical way to change one dropdown's option, based on another.  The context here was that you choose your state (California, etc.) and your choice of utilities (being based on your state) change too.

A useful set of tutorials on Zend Tool and making modules in a Tool-enabled site

One of the neatest and simplest tricks I've picked up lately is the use of the PHP native output buffering (OB) menu. I have always hated embedded/echoed markup, but found it necessary if you want to return a string rather than dump it to the screen.

Another possible use for output buffering is that you can push work to the screen for the benefit of the audience while you continue to compute page elements in the server. (a sort of "server side ajax".)

A great resource for industry events. Many of them are pricey but not all...

make your own timekilling gif

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Do you think CSS is for art school punks who are too stupid to code? Probably because you suck at it. Here is a great injection of high quality CSS information.

I honestly have not completely figured out where, when, or why, but my zerofilled integers are coming back at me as true (non zero padded) integers. This creates problems as in when the dates stored are four ints (0501) are parsed for the first two digits, it is the integer 501 that is parsed, not the string '0501'.

This means of course that my attempt to get the month by substr($row->date, 0, 2) gives me 50, not '05'.

The solution of course is a custom row class within your orm: (this use case taken from Zend_DB)