While searching the internet for information on using the PHP GD image library to create images on the fly, I a killer way of graphically displaying information using the GD library. Sparklines are described by Edward Tufte as "intense, simple, wordlike graphics." Not much development has happened on the PHP sparkline package, but it is definitely a good starting point for putting... [more]

I recently downloaded Windows Media Player 11 Beta and gave it a beta test. It didn't take long for me to decide that Microsoft has made some criticial mistakes with it's new media player.Overall, the feel of the Media Player 11 is similiar to the previous version. It of course has been reskinned to the darker aero-glass feel that can be found in [more]