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In my article today I will cover some basics about dog training and why it is so important. In today's world dogs serve principally as companions in our busy every day lives.

"A year ago we wrote a number of articles devoted to the PSD-to-HTML/CSS conversion market (which afterwards were collected in the e-book "Introduction to PSD-to-XHTML Services: Consumer Guide"). It's a good time now to analyze changes in the Design-to-HTML field: what's new, what tendencies have a positive or negative impact on customers."

According to Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance Team, 40% to 60% of Yahoo!'s users have an empty cache experience and about 20% of all page views are done with an empty cache (see this article by Tenni Theurer on the YUIBlog for more information on browser cache usage). This fact outlines the importance of keeping web pages as lightweight as possible. Improving the engineering design of a page or a web application usually yields the biggest savings and that should always be a primary strategy. With the right design in place, there are many secondary strategies for improving performance such as minification of the code, HTTP compression, using CSS sprites, etc. In terms of code minification, the most widely used tools to minify JavaScript code are Douglas Crockford's JSMIN, the Dojo compressor and Dean Edwards' Packer. Each of these tools, however, has drawbacks. JSMIN, for example, does not yield optimal savings (due to its simple algorithm, it must leave many line feed characters in the code in order not to introduce any new bugs). The goal of JavaScript and CSS minification is always to preserve the operational qualities of the code while reducing its overall byte footprint (both in raw terms and after gzipping, as most JavaScript and CSS served from production web servers is gzipped as part of the HTTP protocol). The YUI Compressor is JavaScript minifier designed to be 100% safe and yield a higher compression ratio than most other tools. Tests on the YUI Library have shown savings of over 20% compared to JSMin (becoming 10% after HTTP compression). Starting with version 2.0, the YUI Compressor is also able to compress CSS files by using a port of Isaac Schlueter's regular-expression-based CSS minifier.

Have you ever found yourself literally frozen creatively while trying to get a website design going, or maybe even while trying to finish one up? If so, congratulations, you are a human being, and web design is a damn frustrating thing time to time. This article is for you -- for us.

This RSS Reader extension tries to provide a tool for including RSS feeds inside various articles across your wiki. It is best used on specialty pages made so that users can easily track the news, etc. This extension was made because all the other RSS extensions did not work or performed poorly on MediaWiki 1.10.

If you are interested in how to create fast MySQL queries, this article is for you

Article date 11/03/08 Posted purposely after the triumph. The number of all voters who would reject Obama based on his race, and the number more likely to vote for him because of his race, is about the same. There's apparently more than one reason for a racist to vote for Barack Obama; An abysmal economy during which the white candidate's campaign has seemed disorganized and erratic, common sense or shared values can prevail over gut fears about the color of a candidate's skin. People can look past skin color while acting in their own best interests. For whatever reason or reasons -- the economy, healthcare, the Iraq war, Sarah Palin -- some racists are determined to vote for the black guy over the white one.  Racism will remain an elusive, unquantifiable force, one whose influence we can't tease out from among the many other conflicting factors that will determine how Americans vote.

This article offers open source software (oss) for FAT over MMC SDC. We have many options of open source TCP/IP stack implementations. However we don't have enough choices for open source FAT file system

This round up presents a collection of great articles in my opinion and I want to stop to ensure you have the time to digest them! Take the time to help yourself!

The Guardian website launched earlier today its new online suite of services called "Open Platform", which will allow web developers to build application using content from the newspaper. The Guardian content APIs being released includes not only articles but also videos, galleries and other content..........

This is a collection of completely free online logo, icon, and button creators and/or editors. A couple of these have been around for a number of years now, but not that many people know about them. All websites have been tested prior to the posting of this article.

interesting article concerned with twitter & conferences. how to deal with it. etc.

Article about TweepMe, the ethics, what it does and does not, how it works and does not work, the security risks.

Twitter is truly an awesome place to make really cool friends. In this article I am going to show you how you can also use Twitter to gain quite a bit of relevant traffic to your blog. For those of you guys and gals who don't know me, my name is Garry Conn. I run a small blog that teaches people how to make money online. You might or might not know me.

A good article on "OpenSim" in SecondLife.

You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. However, it's forbidden to sell them. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word. This iconset was designed by Helen Gkizi from http://www.webtoolkit4.me/ especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

You weren't hoping for backyard privacy anyway were you? Google Earth will soon show even higher resolution images. Check out this article for details on the deal.

Today GPS is involved in many location based services, more and more mobile equipment are integrated GPS feature inside. This article will cover GPS receiver module design based upon existing chip-set,

The purpose of this article is how to do serial port communication using C#. The serial port of the PC is a very important resource both in industrial environment and in home-made electronics, due to the wide popularity of the UART interface which is to