Bye Bye Kor deck, hello collection

As announced today, 20June 2011 the following two cards are banned from standard:

  • Jace, the Mind Sculptor
  • Stoneforge Mystic

The rule will be effective from 1 July 2011.

For me it has a plus and a downside:

  • Plus: these cards will be cheaper, I want one  Jace and three Stoneforges to complete my collection
  • Down: Stoneforge Mystic will be lacking from my full-Kor deck.

SEERS – Standardised Bug Reporting

Two days ago I recieved a bugreport on one of the WordPress plugins I`ve made lately.
This bugreport only said things weren`t working in a certain environment. which environment was for me to guess.

That reminded me of SEERS which I read about.

SEERS stands for:

  • Screenshot
  • Environment
  • Expected behavior and actual behavior
  • Reproduction
  • Severity

I will be constructing a simple bugreporting form on my site shortly.

Pro CSS for High Traffic Websites book review

What`s the book about?

As the title suggest this book is about professional Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for high traffic websites (10.000+ visitors/day). This book guides you through the development process of optimizing codes for improved speed and how to handle large style sheets and interact with other teams and team members to  work more effective.

As a webmaster/webdesigner I`m giving a chance to review this book by Apress.

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Linux Kernel 3.0.0 release candidate 1 installation guide for Ubuntu Linux

Aside

This short walkthrough describes how to get the latest linux kernel working under Ubuntu Linux without having to compile it yourself.

This tutorial should work with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux (10.04 LTS, 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10) and most distributions based on these versions of Ubuntu Linux like Mint.

The included kernel files have been compiled using the generic ubuntu configuration.
Note: ATI, Intel and NVIDIA drivers are automatically installed using DKMS, if you have these installed and up-to-date. Else … don`t blaim me.

For a difference, this guide is only for the AMD64 platform.

Installation Guide

  1. Download the kernel headers package;

    linux-headers-3.0.0-0300rc1_3.0.0-0300rc1.201105310830_all.deb
  2. And the appropriate package for your system

    linux-headers-3.0.0-0300rc1-generic_3.0.0-0300rc1.201105310830_amd64.deb
  3. And the accompanying compiled kernel;

    linux-image-3.0.0-0300rc1-generic_3.0.0-0300rc1.201105310830_amd64.deb
  4. Install the files in the same order (else it won`t work!)
  5. In the terminal run:

    sudo update-grub
  6. Reboot and select the kernel from the bootloader menu

    If it`s not there check all steps (and of course for errors)

The source can be found on www.kernel.org