Bookmarks of the week 2013-03-09

Web Skills Profiles

Ever tried explaining what do you do for living? Finally some standard answers (in Italian):

• SkillProfiles.eu (Italian)
• Disponibili i primi profili professionali per il Web conformi ai principi di alfabetizzazione dell’Agenda Digitale (Italian)
• Il Web ha i suoi professionisti (Italian)

Apple Mac OS X

Need to concatenate some PDF files? Thanks to otofriz.net I now know that Mac OS X provides a great Python command line tool:

$# "/System/Library/Automator/Combine PDF Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py" -o final.pdf path/containing/*.pdf
$# "/System/Library/Automator/Combine PDF Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py" -o final.pdf 1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf
$# "/System/Library/Automator/Combine PDF Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py" -o final.pdf 1.pdf 2.pdf path/*.pdf

Who to follow (PHP community related)?

Brandon Savage provided a list to some good blogs of people involved in the PHP community. I thought I might list my feed subscriptions:

• Anthony Ferarra
• Cal Evans
• Chris Hartjes
• Fabien Potencier
• Lorna Jane Mitchell
• Marco Pivetta
• Matthew Weier O'Phinney
• Rob Allen

and...

• PHP Master
• Planet-PHP

Thinking about becoming a parent?

Please, don't ask me why!

• 10 Things I Wish I Had Known Before Becoming a Parent (lifehacker.com)
• Smartest toys for kids can be the simplest (usatoday.com)

Last but not least

• ZendCon 2012 videos and slides (zend.com)
• How to perfectly fold a t-shirt (lifehacker.com)
• Use comics to Communicate Ideas (alistapart.com)
• Open source education Apps (datamation.com)
• 13 Linux Network Configuration and Troubleshooting Commands (tecmint.com)
• Replacing MySQL with MariaDB (openlogic.com)
• Soul Men: The Making of The Blues Brothers (vanityfair.com)
• Kodiak PHP: The iPad app with offline PHP code execution (becomekodiak.com)