Update 8/4/2010: Note that in at least WordPress 3.0 there is a new filter specifically designed for changing the length of the excerpt: excerpt_length. Instead of re-implementing the entire excerpt-creation function you can now simply return the appropriate value.
There appear to be a lot of misguided people on the intarwebs claiming all sorts of varying things you have to do to get CURL to work on a Windows-based XAMPP install. I’d like to clear them all up here and now.
At the end of the Yahoo! javascript videos I mentioned earlier, they include links to all the major documentation sources for browser Javascript implementations. For convenience, I thought I’d just link to all of them right here on a single page:
This morning I’ve been watching a series of videos put out by Yahoo! regarding Javascript. While I consider myself pretty adept at Javascript these days, the first video gives you a great intro to some of the basic concepts of Javascript. For example: