Sid Sidberry Reads

came across this yesterday.

WP-Testimonials is a plugin for WordPress that lets you display your customer/client/product testimonials on your blog.

You may add, edit or remove testimonials through the “Manage” navigation tab in the admin area. The plugin includes the option to display a random testimonial in your sidebar using PHP code for older templates or using a widget for newer themes. The widget is built-in with the plugin, so you have no additional files to worry about.

Testimonials can also be displayed all on one page. A template file is included that will need to be uploaded to your theme directory. Once in place, simply create a new page and select that template from the drop-down.

check it out :
http://www.sunfrogservices.com/free-php-script-downloads/wp-testimonials/

i prefer to handle data either in arrays or classes, or better yet, arrays with classes.

That said. get an xml to array script, like this one made by : Razzaque Rupom. It’s my favorite.

http://rupom.wordpress.com/category/phpclasses/

From: http://eviljaymz.com/files/whypeopleseemtohavefreetime.png

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whypeopleseemtohavefreetime.png (PNG Image, 1178×975 pixels)

From: http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/1/salesforcecom-crashes-crm

An embarrassing hiccup for software-as-a-service giant Salesforce.com (CRM): According to numerous blog reports and hundreds of tweets, Salesforce’s site was completely down for about 30 to 40 minutes earlier this afternoon.

What do you when you’re entire business had moved into the cloud, and then the cloud crashes? One twitterer had a bright idea:

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Salesforce.com Crashes (CRM)

From: http://revision3.com/content/1234567890/

A time like this can only happen on one planet Earth. Why? Well, because only on planet Earth would a species base its numerical system by a factor of 10 that is tied to the rotation of its planet on its axis (and around its sun). Although every individual number has a uniqueness quantification, only a species like us humans would find the existential irony of 1,234,567,890 seconds.

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Revision3

From: http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/faster-trim-javascript

Since JavaScript doesn’t include a trim method natively, it’s included by countless JavaScript libraries

From: http://vimeo.com/2696386?pg=embed&sec=2696386&hd=1

“History of the Internet” is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.

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History of the Internet on Vimeo

In case you don’t know I love vps, I also love everything we learn from clouds and clusters, which of course is the whole idea behind the grayNetwork, but that’s another post.

So imagine the delight in finding a project that combines clouds and vpses! Yeaper I was dancing the streets of this avatar chat beta

From: http://vps.net/

This blog is to bring you the latest news and updates on the VPS.net upcoming VPS (Virtual Private Server) Cloud Platform, brought you by the industry leading UK2 Group.

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The Virtual Private Server VPS Cloud | UK / USA

awesomely wicked

From: http://www.learningjquery.com/2008/10/1-awesome-way-to-avoid-the-not-so-excellent-flash-of-amazing-unstyled-content

This tutorial describes a way to avoid a flash of unstyled content that sometimes occurs when applying styles with JavaScript on page load. The problem is most evident when there is some content that needs to be hidden initially and when the document is large or complex. We can see an example of the problem on this test page.

The page is a copy of a previous entry on this blog with over 140 comments

Well this is certainly news to me. But seriously the lowest level secure network in the U.S. can tunnel over regular internet with no loss of security and we still don’t have Internet elections?

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_parliamentary_election,_2007

In 2007 Estonia held its and the world’s first national Internet election. Voting was available from February 26 to 28.[2] A total of 30,275 citizens (3.4%) used Internet voting.[3]

Electronic voting in Estonia began in October 2005 local elections when Estonia became the first country to have legally binding general elections using the Internet as a means of casting the vote and was declared a success by the Estonian election officials.

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Estonian parliamentary election, 2007 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia