Archive for October, 2008
Google is afraid of zombies :)
If you take a quick look at Google’s robots.txt file you will se the following lines added: User-agent: zombies Disallow: /brains It seems that in this evening zombies will be crawling even on the internet and Google took some measures in order to protect the search engine from unwanted service disruption caused by zombies If [...]
3 books for building revolutionary web applications
So i read again. That is not news. But i wanted to share with you what i read lately. Below you can find 3 very good books that can help you if you want to build scalable and revolutionary web applications. Maybe you know some of them, maybe not, but here they are anyway: Building [...]
PHP support may be on the way in Google App Engine
Rumor has it that Google is adding support for a new runtime language for Google App Engine. If you take a closer look at their roadmap you can see that for sure another runtime language will be added. But which one will be ? Java or PHP ? According to some reports, Google said that [...]
The origins of the Google Chrome logo
Source: http://thenextweb.org/2008/10/28/origins-of-the-google-chrome-logo/
The most annoying website plugin
Some people believe that they can add value to their site just by adding plugins to the page that disturbs the users. For example a plugin provided by snap.com which displays a snapshot of the link you are hovering. For me this is the most disturbing thing that happens when i’m browsing. I frequently hover [...]
Controversed namespace separator for PHP namespaces
The PHP development team decided to use the backslash (\) as namespace separator in future releases of PHP (up from 5.3) The decision wasn’t very welcomed by the community and numerous people already started basing PHP again. i feel that some of the people involved are beeing very single minded on this. I think time [...]
Funny Firefox easter egg
I’ve just seen a funny easter egg hidden in Firefox. If you open the browser and type in the address bar about:robots you will see a funny page dedicated to robots. It is kinda old trick – since FF3 appeared but i just learned about it. It made my day.
How to tell if your site is beeing listed as suspicious by Google
If you want to see what Google thinks about your site just go to http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=http://www.example.com Do not forget to replace example.com with your domain
Two annoying Chrome issues
I’m using Chrome heavily lately for work and for regular browsing. I’ve come accross two annoying issues that just ruin my Chrome experience. 1) When i type a domain name without “www” and the particular domain is not configured correctly it will give me an error. Firefox just ignores this and tries the domain with [...]
Geolocation for webdevelopers with Mozilla’s Geode add on
The folks at Mozilla Labs released an experimental Add-on for Firefox called Geode. This extension will allow website developers to request a user’s location from the browser. The browser will ask the user for permission and return the location of the user if allowed. The location can be determined automatically if you have a GPS device [...]
Evolution forgot someone behind: The Automobile
In the last few decades technology evolved with giant steps, especially computers and communications but not only. We can now clone animals, we can comunicate over the internet, we can travel to the moon if we want to. But there is a thing that didn’t evolved too much. At least it is not yet there [...]
2009 Formula 1 Calendar
FIA surprizes with the removal of the Canadian Grand Prix from the 2009 Formula 1 Calendar. The canadian race is being replaced by the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Here is the complete schedule of the races: 29 march – Australia (Melbourne) 5 april – Malaysia (Sepang) 19 april – Bahrain 10 may – Spain [...]
Google Chrome after one month of use
It is more then a month from the moment when Google Chrome went live. I use it since then and i love its speed and its simplicity. It crashed on me only once and it took all the tabs with it. But that was a minor incident, it can happen. But what is worse is [...]
