OSWM Issue 2: Second Step
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Editorial
By Eddie Jaoude
It has been a busy quarter for all of us, hence the delay in this issues release. I have been in close contact with quite a few of you and I really appreciate everyone's contributions. The learning curve has been steep, however I feel the magazine is slowly but surely pushing on. I think the best wa
Reviewed by Sara Kijjoa
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3 Steps to Remove Pages and Cached Content from Google Search
By James Harvey
Google's indexing of websites for its search is quite good, quite fast, and quite thorough. There are times, however, that pages on a site should not be indexed. For example, admin sections or include files. Asking Google to remove content is easy and Google's response is reasonably fast. If you
Reviewed by Eddie Jaoude
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jQuery's 'this'
By James Harvey
More often that not, in my early dabbling with jQuery and more advanced JavaScript, I found I would constantly get confused over the meaning of "this" in jQuery and my own new libraries. Hopefully this quick guide can help clarify those confusing moments, because once you've got it, it'
Reviewed by Agnislav Onufrijchuk
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HTML 4 and XHTML 1 to HTML 5
By James Harvey
HTML5 has several new block-level sectioning elements that we can use to give relevant parts of web pages more semantic meaning. These new elements are for chunks of related content. For example a logical section of the document: New sectioning elements in a nutshell * <section> a chun
Reviewed by Eddie Jaoude
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Acronyms and SEO :: Is there Pain?
By James Harvey
Anyone that knows me, understands that I am not a big fan of acronyms. I think they breakdown the lines of communication, and confuse people quickly. SEO is a common topic now a days, and I've become acutely aware of the issue of using acronyms in content. Basically the situation can be broken d
Reviewed by Manuel Ciosici
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PHP and XML: An Introduction
By Damian Crawford
Bugger! I've accidentally deleted my windows partition on my mac and have lost my Star trek online game. Ah well guess that means I should have time to write up this article. Well I have used XML in various forms for over two years, and to be honest I wasn't wild about learning about it in the be
Reviewed by Antonio Polia
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The 90's
By Jeroen Diderik
As I wrote in my previous article (OSWM Issue 1, title: Sunday December 28th, 1986) my first experience with computers and Open Source were with a Sinclair ZX-Spectrum and a tape recorder on batteries. It took a while before the first PC made its entrance into our household. My father wasn't into c
Reviewed by Damian Crawford
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My New Social Life:Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Review
By Michael Dabydeen
Change is here! That is the banner under which Canonical is marketing their latest addition to the table called Lucid Lynx, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long Term Support). After working on it for the last two days, I must say It rocks! There are lots of changes as promised and much lived up to the expectatio
Reviewed by Eddie Jaoude