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Maybe it has been said too much about this matter, but I’d like to share my opinion on it.

As most of the developers/designers out there, I started web development using the regular and common tool. Recently I gave a try to CSS2Edit, and after two weeks using it I just bought it. Is an excellent tool for the creation of CSS, I strongly recomend it (Sorry Windowz users, you can’t have it, it’s only made for Mac because it’s based on WebKit, the rendering engine that Safari uses).

The other wonderful piece of software that I’ve been trying is TextMate, which is a really powerful text editor. I find myself using it daily and I’m planning to buy a copy this week. it handles almost every known programming language currently used, and it has a very active plug-in and bundles building community. I will write more about these two monsters in further post.

As a bottom line, I’m seriously thinking in not buying the long awaited next generation UB of Dreamweaver.

MacBook Pro 15″
2.16GHz
1GB RAM
100GB 7.200RPM HD

I’ve just installed the inlineRSS plugin from iconophobia to put my Simpy bookmarks here

I’m working hard in some projects now (nice!), so I have no spare time for blogging, but I’ll be back…

Trying to display chinese text in a PHP script from a MySQL DB, proved to be more tricky than i thought, using phpMyAdmin i was able to insert an edit chinese text in a db which has a ‘utf8_general_ci’ charset, but when i tried to show that text in a php page the only thing i’ve got was a long string of question marks.
Searching for a solution on the internet, i found this solution in a comment in php.net

mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8'", $conn);

Placing this just before the query did the trick!

As a web developer these are good news, I had a lot of trouble supporting it, but it seems that Microsoft and Apple are getting far away from each other…

This text is from the Microsoft site

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER FOR MAC USERS

In June 2003, the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit announced that Internet Explorer for Mac would undergo no further development, and support would cease in 2005. In accordance with published support lifecycle policies, Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer for Mac on December 31st, 2005, and will provide no further security or performance updates.

Additionally, as of January 31st, 2006, Internet Explorer for the Mac will no longer be available for download from Mactopia. It is recommended that Macintosh users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple’s Safari.

24 ways: Avoiding CSS Hacks for Internet Explorer

Its time to clean up our code…

FatBits: John Siracusa’s Journal
A journal writen by what I think is one of the most knowledgeable and objective columnist that writes about the Macintosh.
On the whole, all the writers at Arstechnica are A+ columnists.

Ok, I think this time I’m serious, I’m going start bloggin’!