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Here is some interesting news for all those web developers out there from www.mysqlconf.com

We are pleased to announce that on February 25, 2008, Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL. This is great news for Sun, MySQL, the open source community, and the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo.

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Feel free to visit the links section of the Ironvine Search Marketing blog for useful links to resources I have created or related companies. In the links section you will also find links to articles I have written about SEO and search marketing.

If you have comments, content, or things you would like to write about in the search marketing field please contact me at steve@ironvine.com for publishing on this site.

For more information on programming related things, or to submit programming content to my sister site AjaxKnight.com, please contact me with your requests as well.

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In the interests of keeping focused information and relevant content, I have decided to move my programming section of Ironvine Search Marketing to a new blog AjaxKnight (http://www.ajaxknight.com/blog/).

I hope to have more programming information there and posts at least weekly.

You should still get daily updates here about search marketing, search engine optimization and marketing news here on Ironvine Search Marketing.

Thanks! And I hope you visit AjaxKnight soon.

~Steve

This is a good little tutorial article about migrating your web design style from tables to CSS. Bulding your first CSS site article on Adobe Developer Center has good examples and walkthroughs of setting up the structure and compliant methodology that can get anyone started with CSS designing.

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SketchUp is one of Google’s lesser publicized applications that it offers for free online (for personal use).

SketchUp is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D. With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects - even space ships. And once you’ve built your models, you can place them in Google Earth, post them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies.

This is a downloadable product and not an online tool, similar to Picasa. You can do some really neat drafting and design with this tool, and for basic users who want to build a tool-shed in the back yard, you will be hard pressed to find anything close for the price (free!).

A neat little tool that I will be installing to show related entries. My blog tends to be a bit broad in scope at times and perhaps this will help the usability.

http://www.w-a-s-a-b-i.com/archives/2006/02/02/wordpress-related-entries-20/

JasonR let me know about a great resource for Flash, PHP, Photoshop and CSS tutorials [http://www.kirupa.com]. They include lots of video tutorials as well as code walkthroughs. They have a good selection of tasks that they walk you though.

If you have text that is in ALL CAPS you can copy it into Word and press [Shift]
+ F3 to make it all lower case

Jon Galloway has quite helpfully written a batch script that allows IE7 to be installed in Standalone Mode. What this means is that you will be able to have IE6 (which is fairly stable) and also be able to run IE7 (which is not so stable).

What does the program do?

“IE7s.exe” will create a .exe.local file. After that it will add
values to more than a thousand registry keys in your Windows Registry.
Internet Explorer 7 should start then. 10 seconds later the program
will perform a cleanup, remove all the registry keys and close itself.
It is OK to run multiple instances at once.

What does NOT work?

• Openning a new window and IE7’s context menu.
• Bookmarks,
  RSS reader, and the search box. The search box works if you install
  IE7s using the installer. Alternatively, you can directly add search
  providers to the windows registry (article coming soon).
• Visiting pages that need HTTP authentication (username/password)

This article guides you through the AJAX basics and gives you two simple hands-on examples to get you started.

This Code Search beta search engine released by O’Reilly searches through over 700 O’Reilly books which means there are over 123,000 examples and 2.6 million lines of code.

The search results page works quite well with the condensed view and the full view code options inline with the results.

The downside to the search capability is that you cannot search on topical results such as “ajax” unless it is labeled in the code itself, perhaps in the # comments # section.

Tons of links to Adobe ActionScript 3.0 code and samples.