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  • It turns out that you can tell tar this, but not with a command-line option, instead with an environment variable: COPYFILE_DISABLE. Setting that to “true” (or perhaps any value) tells tar not to copy resource forks. For added confusion, this apparently undocumented environment variable used to be called COPY_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES_DISABLE in versions of Mac OS X prior to “Leopard”. At least that works with the tar that ships with OS X: ¶

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March 5, 2010

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  • Bite-Size Edits connects readers and fans with writers, right in the engine room, where sentences are honed and improved. Here you can discover new writers, you can polish sentences written by the writers you love, and you can even upload your own texts.

March 3, 2010

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  • These steps will install PostgreSQL in /usr/local.
  • Forms make or break the most crucial online interactions: checkout (commerce), registration (community), data input (participation and sharing), and any task requiring information entry. In Web Form Design, Luke Wroblewski draws on original research, his considerable experience at Yahoo! and eBay, and the perspectives of many of the field's leading designers to show you everything you need to know about designing effective and engaging Web forms. See Complete Description...
  • A while ago, I came across a unique registration form built by Jeremy Keith for his audio sharing site, Huffduffer. Though it asked people the same questions found in typical sign-up forms, the Huffduffer registration form did so in a narrative format. It presented input fields to people as blanks within sentences (Mad Libs-style, if you will).
  • But wait… if you need to use an image anyway, why bother with declaring the gradient with CSS? That is kind of how I felt for a long time, but there is one important aspect that makes it worth it: browsers that support them don’t load the image fallback. One less HTTP Request = all the faster your site will load.

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