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If you are seeing Out of Service message when you go to Digg.com, it is probably because they are pushing their redesign live. I got a glimpse of the new design this morning when trying to access the site.

Looks like new features such as Videos and Podcasts will be introduced soon too. [...]

Saw the above screenshot on Worse Than Failure: Curious Perversions in Information Technology website, and I found it so hilarious that I couldn’t resist the urge to post it up here.
That’s right; every “dynamic-looking” page was, in fact, static. It was going to be a long maintenance contract…
Source: When the Query String Is [...]

A while ago, I wrote a post about my eZ Publish extensions for Flickr and YouTube. I have been meaning to upload them onto official eZ publish repository but didn’t really get to doing it until I received a comment a few days ago which reads, “I’m exactly looking for these extensions. I couldn’t [...]

I am sure you have heard of all the hype about the fastest growing social networking site, Facebook. Facebook has become very popular, so much so it even creates new jobs in IT & T industry. How do I know, I hear you ask. Have a look at this job [...]

Problem:
You have the following URLs for your website:
www.example.com/about-us.html
www.example.com/services.html
www.example.com/contact-us.html
However, you would like to hide file extensions from the end users, and allow them to access to the files using the following URLs:
www.example.com/about-us
www.example.com/services
www.example.com/contact-us
Solution:
The solution can be achieved by using Apache’s mod_rewrite. Create an .htaccess file in your website root directory with the following content.
RewriteEngine [...]