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There you have it.. College students, buy a Mac and get a free iPod nano. I found this link while surfing iTunes.

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Nice! You can now add your Google Calendar on your desktop! This gadget requires Google Desktop 4 or above. Read more about the Desktop calendar here.

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I was adding a link to a PDF file to my webpage, and was wondering if it was possible to link TO a page within the PDF. I did my google search, and found exactly how to do it.

Simply link to your PDF file as usual and append page=8 to link to the 8th page. Change the number accordingly.

So the HTML code would look like this:

<a href="http://www.mywebsite.com/myPDF.pdf#page=8">Page 8 in my PDF File</a>

Nice Trick. Thanks Planet PDF.

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There’s been talk at my workplace about if we’ll move to MS Office 2007 or not. All staff and public machines are currently running Office 2003. But it looks like we’ll need to train our staff about the new software before we can deploy it.

For starters, this Interactive: Word 2003 to Word 2007 Command Reference Guide seems like a great place to begin!

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So my current project is complete (my build system is working except for the automatic part – need a new nic so it can upload without me repairing the connection…and a new libssh2 that doesn’t crash on disconnect) next on my list is the “GREAT PECL WINDOWS FUN HAPPY”…err I’ll stop now.
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Just wanted to thank Elizabeth Naramore, Elizabeth Smith and Cal Evans (our booth babe) for handing out the PHPWomen T-shirts and talking to people about us at php|tek to help get the word out. You guys are great! I still can’t believe all 50 shirts are gone

You can see a great picture of the gang here

As a member of ACM I regularly get tech news announcements. This happened to be one of them. Below is from the W3C home page:

2007-03-07: W3C is pleased to invite participation in the new HTML Working Group, chartered to create the next HTML standard with the active participation of browser vendors, software developers, and content designers. “It’s time to revisit the standard and see what we can do to meet the current community needs, and to do so effectively with commitments from browser manufacturers in a visible and open way,” said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director.

Now I have to admit to being curious about what is going on – after all anything new dealing with the web affects me as PHP coder. Since the W3C is supposedly interested in input from the Web community and content developers, I decided to see who from PHP would be there. Granted it is very early for the formation of the group so it didn’t really surprise me to see no one from PHP that I know or heard about in there, but I wonder if anyone from the PHP Group will become a “invited expert” somewhere down the road.

Oh I know – they already are extremely busy working on the various PHP versions (for which I thank them), and this would only add more work to people who are already doing more then their fair share. But a girl can wish – can’t she.

(And just because I know there will be someone out there that says/thinks I should do it since I’m sitting here talking about it… Well I must admit to considering it – but I really am not qualified for something like this. Though I do wish I was.)

Just wanted to drop a quick note to update the world on PHPWomen. During the holidays the site became rather quiet, but then so many of us (myself included) were out doing the holiday/family things and let the PHP world take the back burner.

Since then we have once more started to pick up. We currently have ~180 registered users on our forums (200 is coming quicker then I thought) and Kathy Reid recently made us a custom theme for the site (a forum skin is on its way to unify the site looks).

Regular users are visiting again and new coders are starting to find mentors quietly (I now have a little sis myself). I just recently added a thread to the Member’s Benefits section to help them find each other. Hopefully it helps in some small way to bring and keep women in the field.

Well I have done it – scheduled my PHP5 ZCE test for July 13th. Why you ask – for the same reason I took the first. I want it – plain and simple – no more no less.

Also plan to take the MySQL5 certification test as well – maybe Oct… luckily all I need is the Core to Developer upgrade exam instead of having to take their new format of 2 tests. I can live with that.

I have to admit though that the MySQL cert means more to me though. as much as I love PHP – DB is where my heart sits. Need to also work more about the DBA stuff. TML enjoyed reminding me how little I know and have to learn which is kinda nice.

Gtk is kicking my rear… I can compile iconv, gettext, zlib, libjpegm freetype and even annoying fontconfig (with a few patches) with both msvc and mingw and drop them anywhere and have them run properly, and I can compile glib and gtk with mingw perfectly, and php5 with php-gtk2 with msvc perfectly. But [...]