The Disasters Emergency Committee are running an appeal to Help families who are suffering in Niger and the neighbouring countries of Mauritania, Mali and Burkina Faso
. You can donate online at www.dec.org.uk. If you would prefer not to donate online then donations can be made by going into any high street post office or bank
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SK2 – Simple Digest plugin – Another Minor Update
A minor update to the SK2 Digest Plugin has been released to fix the following feature – “Links in the digest emails don’t work” – It turns out the admin pages moved between sk2 beta4 and sk2 final. Current version is 0.952 and is available for download from the SK2 Digest Plugin page.
IE7 Beta 1 – First Impressions
I woke this morning to find out, via Elliott, that IE7 Beta 1 had been released. So I headed off and logged into my MSDN subscription to download the beta install.
First impressions are that the new user interface is clean and with the introduction of tabs a great improvement. However it seems that they have thrown a few of the UI design rules out the window – for example normal Windows UI design has the menu bar at the top of the window – not two levels down beneath the address and tab bars.
Interestingly browsing to a new website brings up the “Microsoft Phishing Filter” which offers to check all the websites you visit to see if they are impersonating a trusted website. Also middle click to open in new tab is supported – working the same way as Firefox. :-).
Things are looking good for IE7 Beta 1 or Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)).
flickr comes to london
Carson Workshops are running another One Day Workshop in London soon entitled “Building Enterprise Web Apps on a Budget – How We Built Flickr” presented by Cal Henderson. I would love to attend this but I don’t think I can afford it (and I don’t think $day_job will pay as it’s not really relavent to my job).