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Socks and Backups: Two Things You Can Never Have Too Many Of!
There are some things in life that will always serve you well, many pairs of socks and a good solid backup procedure for your data.
Ask yourself the question how many times have you been hit by a hard drive failure or data corruption and not had a backup? What most people say is that they have had catastrophic data loss with no backup of their data usually only once. This normally occurs when you have no decent backup plan in operation.
I mention this as I had a drive failure over the weekend on a portable disk that I shuttle between work and home; lots of important data, and all of it was important data that I couldn’t do without. What was my reaction? Pretty simple really, I restored by data from the backup I had made the night before.
Now this sounds really simple, and the only reason that it was so simple was because I have a pretty solid backup plan that I adhere to strictly. Getting into the routine of backing up your data, is something that you should make a habit of, and there’s plenty of hardware and software around that can help you carry out the …
MOZiE - split screen Mozilla and IE
Via Mozillazine - MOZiE. A clever patchwork of technologies that allows you to view pages with Internet Explorer (5+) and Mozilla (1.5+) simultaneously, as well as other cool features like simulating the pages in various screen resolutions and running pages through the W3 validator at the click of a button.
The work is actually being done by Internet Exlorer, taking advantage of HTA while the Mozilla pane is made possible thanks to Adam Lock’s Mozilla ActiveX Control (Mozilla embedded into IE - very nice).
Along with Chris Pederick’s Web Developer toolbar for Mozilla / Firebird (thanks Simon), LiveHTTPHeaders, DOM Inspector, the Venkman JavaScript debugger and many more, it’s almost malpractice not to use Mozilla (or it’s slick little brother [sister?] Firefox) for developing web pages.
[Not PHP I know, but too good to ignore]
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