Recent Links: November 05 to November 08

“Flex supports external CSS style sheets. You can declare the location of a local style sheet or use the external style sheet to define the styles that all applications use.”

A Flickr photoset of Polaraoid pictures showing various signs in 1960s America.

A handy plugin that makes it easy to reply to comments from within the Admin interface. You no longer need to jump to the commented-upon page to reply.

Quality, accessible site should cost more money. They take more time, require a higher attention to detail and knowledge. Plus these sites benefit the client. Tell them.

“The goal of this article is to explain how to upload multiple photos in CakePHP using a single MySQL table. The images will be uploaded into an uploads folder, while the image names will be stored in a single MySQL table.”

“With over a dozen government-related APIs and government-related mashups there are a growing number of ways to get data from government sources and to learn more about what elected representatives are doing with your tax dollars.”

“Defensio is a spam filtering web service that you can use to protect your blog or web application from comment spam.”

“A private place for storing and sharing photos, video, audio, notes, docs, etc. Each is accessible only to those whom you tell exactly where to look.

No signup and no ‘account’. We don’t even ask for your email. Create as many drops as you want…”

“UK drive recovery company Retrodata is warning customers of a rash of failures involving a particular Seagate drive model, a SATA unit made in China and used in Apple laptops. This specific mechanism, according to Retrodata’s intake notes, seems to be prone to a spectacular self-destruct where the drive heads auger into the platter, rendering the data mostly dead.”