Twitter co founder Biz Stone recently announced on the Twitter blog that they are all set to integrate retweets into the service and application programing interface. Currently the method of retweeting on twitter.com is a cumbersome process of copying and pasting. Project Retweet is in its Phase One in which Twitter would take feedback from the developer community on how will the API handle the process.

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Cross-browser and cross-platform testing is a bane as well as a requirement for web applications. Consider Internet Explorer on Windows. There are two major version 6 & 7, not to mention still used 5.5. You need to either use different machines or multi-boot machines or use hacks to run them simultaneously or virtualization software like VMWare; not of them are really easy to setup and use for common web developer. Then you have Opera & Firefox (we develop in Firefox so it gets tested first in our case). Did I mention testing on Mac with Safari, Firefox and other browsers? Oh, and don't forget Linux too. Are you feeling overwhelmed? Let's see how you can solve most of these problems.

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I have tried several HTML Editors over the years. One of the earliest WYSIWYG HTML editor I used was Netscape Gold / Composer, which was quite basic but probably the only one at that time (1995). For quite sometime after that I used Visual Page, even when the product was discontinued because of its simplicity and ease of use. I graduated on to Dream Weaver. Anyway back to the present when I moved to Linux, I was looking for a high quality HTML editor to be a replacement of DreamWeaver on Linux platform. I was looking for an editor with WYSIWYG capability with modern CSS based layouts. I needed something light-weight and yet with well rounded features. Syntax highlighting was a nicety but not necessity.

I tried several editors including but not limited to SciTe Text Editor, Nvu, Bluefish Editor, XEmacs Text Editor, KompoZer & Quanta Plus. Here is a brief overview of each followed by my recommendation.
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Google GMail increased the attachment limit of individual emails to 20MB. On the other hand the total space inches closer to 3 GB; it is currently at 2857 MB of which I am using only 3%.

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An amazing video based on actual data showing how a 6 foot long DNA is tightly packed in a molecule and then in the second part you can see DNA replication machine via computer simulation.

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Revision number of a file is an important information. Two most common uses are in serialization and in making version specific database upgrades for an application. I am using it for the later. Here is a simple way how you can add revision number (Id, Date, Author and HeadURL) automatically to your source files.

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Open up conf/settings.php and add this line:

$Configuration['URL_BUILDING_METHOD'] = 'mod_rewrite';

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Bill Stevens, Senior Director at Cognos, contends that CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software do not provide proper granularity to enable informed decision making for pharmaceutical industries.

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Study conducted by researchers at the University of Scranton suggests that tea might prevent diabetes and its associated complications, including diabetic cataracts.

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