Take a look at the collection of the top 15 beautiful Twitter backgrounds here to draw some inspiration for your own.

via Top 15 Charismatic Twitter Backgrounds | TM Web Development Blog.

I started up a development project today after upgrading to snow leopard, and none of the codeigniter links worked. they all said “The URI you submitted has disallowed characters.” Why? This hadnt happened before, same project what changed?

Snow leopard upgraded my php dev environment to 5.3 from 5.2.6 And a few things have changed since then. Namely php bug #47229 “preg_quote should escape “-” (minus) as well” was fixed. (technically in 5.2.8) CodeIgniter checks uri for allowed characters to prevent some bad things. But the use preg_quote to convert the allowed list of character to something usable in a regular expression. Now the minus “-”, or I’d call it a dash (but I know there is a longer character for that) gets escaped in preg_quote with a backslash “\”. That cause the expression “a-z 0-9? to be converted to “a\-z 0\-9? which will not work in a regex.

Note we removed the preg_quote().  Now in your system/application/config/config.php file  look for line 126 (unless you’ve added a lot to you config will be around there somewhere)

Change the line

$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = 'a-z 0-9~%.:_-';

to:

$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = 'a-z 0-9~%\.\:_\-';

we’re now preparing our allowed character string in the config file and skipping preg_quote.  And that’s it.  Now your uri should work

via Fixed: “The URI you submitted has disallowed characters.” error CodeIgniter | DavidMichaelThompson.

This issue prevents many people from upgrading wordpress automatically using ssh

[From: #10604 (class-wp-filesystem-ssh2.php put_contents fails) – WordPress Trac]

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English still dominates Twitter. When exploring Russia as part of a class that I am teaching this summer at Georgetown, one of the barriers we learned about was the difficulty of fitting some Russian language words into just 140 characters. Twitter is, however, extremely English-friendly. As the Sysomos report found, the top four countries on Twitter are all English speaking (US, UK, Canada, Australia). Of these, US makes up 62% of all Twitter users, followed by UK with nearly 8% and Canada and Australia with 5.7% and 2.8% respectively. The largest non-English speaking country on Twitter? Brazil with 2%.

[From: Influential Marketing Blog: 10 Stunning (And Useful) Stats About Twitter]

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