SitePoint Podcast #2: The Internet and the Election

By | November 16, 2008 | Podcast

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Hosts: Brad Williams, Patrick O’Keefe, Stephan Segraves, and Kevin Yank

News topics covered on this episode:

Firefox Hits 20% Browser Market Share Worldwide (SitePoint)
ReadWriteWeb: Firefox Reaches 20% Market Share for First Time Ever

Microsoft Offers Free Software to Startups (SitePoint)
ReadWriteWeb: Microsoft Offers Free Software to Startups

Ballmer “Interested” in Open Source Browser Engine (Slashdot)
Full video at CNet: Hell freezes over: Ballmer considering open-source browser?

Google’s OpenID Support Questioned by Experts (SitePoint)
SitePoint: Google Removes OpenID Whitelist Requirement

Main Show Topic: How did the Internet affect the US Presidential Election?
SitePoint: Tracking the US Election with Web 2.0
ReadWriteWeb: ReadWriteWeb: Al Gore: Web 2.0 Needs a Purpose
NY Times: How Obama Tapped Into Social Networks’ Power
BoingBoing: Change.gov is going through some changes

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Kevin Yank

Kevin began developing for the Web in 1995 and is a highly respected technical author. He wrote Build your own Database Driven Website using PHP and MySQL, a practical step-by-step guide published by SitePoint, and he's co-author of the SitePoint Tech Times, a bi-weekly newsletter for technically-minded web developers. Kev believes that any good webmaster should have seen at least one episode of MacGyver.

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{ 5 comments }

Anonymous December 23, 2008 at 11:40 am

Kevin, thanks for the link to the page. (By the way, on that page, “Edwards’” should instead read “Edwards’s”. As I’m sure you know, any term, including a proper name, is not made plural just because it ends in the letter ‘s’.) I’m looking forward to trying out that Firefox extension. Thanks!

Kevin Yank December 22, 2008 at 10:23 am

Anonymous,

The extension is Dust-Me Selectors.

Anonymous December 22, 2008 at 10:05 am

Kevin, I’m not sure if this is the particular podcast in which it occurred, but the discussion was centering on Firefox extensions, and someone asked you if you had ever built one. You mentioned that SitePoint has a couple handy extensions, including one that identifies unused CSS rules. It sounded as if the name was “Dusty Selectors”, but I probably misheard it. I searched the SitePoint Web site, looking for tools, and wasn’t able to find anything on this one or any others. Could you please post a link to point us all in the right direction? Thanks!

Dale November 29, 2008 at 4:10 am

Why do bury your podcast RSS feed way over here: http://www.sitepoint.com/subscribe.php?showblogs ?

ajk100 November 19, 2008 at 4:25 am

Kevin,

I didn’t know how to get through to you so I thought I woul dtry this way. I am new to the mysql and PHP area and I bought your book Teach Yourself PHP & MYSQL The Easy Way – Everything was going fine until I tried to login to see the status; i get this:

mysqladmin: connect to server at ‘root’@'localhost’ failed
error: ‘Access denied for user ‘root’@'localhost’ ‘

Not sure where to go from here?

Al Kil

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