Archive for March, 2009
Bye bye Adobe Reader! I need no bloatware!
I’ve just uninstalled Adobe Reader and hopefully i won’t have to install it again. I was very annoyed with this piece of bloatware. I’ve made a full reinstall of my computer and i needed a PDF viewer to read some e-books. Right away i went to Adobe’s site and tried to download Adobe Reader. But [...]
Interest for PHP is declining ?
Google Insights for Search is an interesting tool, it allows you to take a look at what people are serching for in different parts of the world and how is the volume of search evolving for a keyword in a specific part of the world or worldwide. I played a bit with Google Insights and [...]
TYPO3 Installation and Upgrade E-book
Dmitry Dulepov just released a free e-book with the title TYPO3 Installation and Upgrade. The book covers some interesting topics such as the installation and the upgrade of TYPO3. I’ve read the book because it’s not too long and i can say that this book is a must read for every TYPO3 developer, especially newbies. [...]
Chrome Experiments and Extensions
Or could i call this post just Javascript is the future ? It seems that Google indeed has big plans with Chrome. That’s why they built in a very advanced and fast Javascript engine called V8. This Javascript engine will allow developers to create highly advanced applications that run directly in the browser without any [...]
HRP-4C – the japanese robot fashion model
As a kid i often watched Star Trek and one of my favorite characters was Data, from the Next Generation series. I always wondered when we will be able to build an android just like Data. Well, it seems that we are one step closer. Although far away from Data’s capabilities, HRP-4C, the 158 cm [...]
New Google Chrome Beta
Google is just rolling out a new beta of the increasingly popular Google Chrome browser, with many improved features. This update comes just a few months after they took off the beta label from Google Chrome in last December. From the new features: improved speed (about 25% to 35%) form autofill full page zoom autoscroll [...]
How to create SVG images with PHP
I’ve just found a nice tutorial on how to create SVG images with PHP. This is a great example, explained step by step on how to generate all kinds of images. And after you read it, you will see that this is not so hard as you might have tought.
Book: Drupal 6 Social Networking
I’ve just noticed that there is a new Drupal book under the sun: Drupal 6 Social Networking written by Michael Peacock and published by Packt Publishing. Evidently the book’s target audience is formed by developers aiming to create social networking sites with Drupal. A task that is not so simple, not even with Drupal. From [...]
Magento’s momentum
Not so long ago i downloaded the Magento Ecommerce Platform and installed it on my server. I did this because a few people asked me about this platform they heard of and i didn’t know anything about it. The installation is not too complicated, anyone with reasonable knowledge in this area should be able to [...]
Powermail javascript bug
Powermail the popular Typo3 extension used to display forms and send the data through email has a bug in version 1.4.10 that generates a javascript error like this: var Validator = Class.create(); ‘Class’ is not defined I found that this is caused by a configuration setting in ext_typoscript_setup.txt If you wondered, there is a workaround until [...]
JsMag – a new javascript magazine
A new javascript magazine has been launched: http://www.jsmag.com/ Headlines from the first issue Debugging JavaScript without alert() Introduction to ExtJS Community News Unit testing with YUI What’s new in jQuery 1.3 Functional Programming in JavaScript Seems rather good but its interesting to see if a subscription based magazine it will have success in these times.
The right CMS for the right job
I was trying different content management systems for a long time. And sometimes choosing one for a site is a difficult job. That is because we have plenty of packages to choose from. After a while i came to the conclusion that each of them is suited for different kinds of sites. For example if [...]
