Sometimes a text header link just doesn’t cut it. Making a image a clickable header link is very simple. You can see the result above, the area around the name in the image is a link back to the home page.
Making Header Image Clickable Link
Kubuntu 8.10 Released
The latest version of Ubuntu and Kubuntu have been released. These released are both called Intrepid Ibex, hence the logo. Me being partial to KDE I really cared about this new release because it includes KDE 4.1, which include some very nice features. Mainly some nice eye candy but also the inclusion of a new file manager called Dolphin which is nice since Konqueror was one of KDE pitfalls in my opinion. Here is the official release page with screen shots and more descriptions on the features in this release. Here is the torrent page with all the different torrent files for all the versions of Ubuntu.
Font Burner Plugin
Font Burner is a service that allows a blog owner to use a custom font for their post headers. It uses some flash and javascript magic to turn the text into whatever font the author chooses. They have also just released a WordPress plugin that makes the task even easier. Visit Font Burner and try out their service.
The Cost of Linux
The Linux Foundation has calculated the total cost of developing a Linux Distro. They used Fedora 9 as their basis. The total cost estimated to be 10.8 billion dollars. With 1.4 of that developing the kernel alone. They came to this figure through calculating based on the number of lines of code and the average salary of a software developer. It has estimated that to develop from scratch it would take 24 years. There are more interesting stats in the Whitepaper.
WordPress 2.7 Comment Callback Function
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