Software
Blogging with Windows Live Writer
I just recently discovered Windows Live Writer and i must admit i like very much the idea to use one tool to update all my blogs from one central place! But the centralization is only one thing. There are lots of other things that make blogging easier. For example you have several plugins to insert [...]
Browser wars again
We’re in the middle of a war. A war of the browsers. I’ve found today very good post (episode one, episode two) about the renewed browser wars on the Avencius blog. Fortunately these wars will only benefit the users and not some bloodthirsty ruler.
Thinking about switching to CentOS
Recently i’ve been playing with CentOS at work, setting up a server and configuring stuff on it. I used Linux a long time ago, when Mandrake was my OS of choice and i had plenty of time. But i had to switch to Windows because of some GIS software i’ve been using in school that [...]
A lesson to be learned in software development
I’ve just read a great and insightful article on Wired about the development of a game that was never finished and it was canceled after 12 years of development. The game is Duke Nukem Forever and the article is called: Learn to let go: How success killed Duke Nukem The situation from the article happens [...]
Google Chrome in Internet Explorer!
Most modern web browsers support HTML5, a standard that allows web sites to have features that previously only desktop applications had. Also most modern web applications use heavy javascript code to create the functionality of the site. Unfortunately Internet Explorer isn’t supporting HTML5 yet. And developers can’t ignore this, because IE is used by a [...]
Google Chrome bookmark synchronization just landed on dev channel
The Chrome development team just pushed live to the dev channel the new Google Chrome with version number 4.0.201.1. This contains a lots of bug fixes but one major new feature too – bookmark synchronization. Now you can synchronize your bookmarks across multiple Chrome installations (multiple computers). To activate bookmark synchronization, start Chrome with the “–enable-sync” [...]
Opera and Typo3 ? Thanks but no thanks.
I’ve downloaded a while ago Opera 10 and once in a while i open it up just to see how it works and how it evolves. But a few days ago i decided that i try to work on it for a full day to get a more comprehensive image of what can this browser [...]
Popup management in the new Google Chrome
I’ve upgraded today to the latest version of Google Chrome available on the dev channel and finally popup management is available in Google’s browser. I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. I even made a post about how much i hate the lack of popup management in Chrome. Theme support also has been [...]
PHP 5.3 is here!
The PHP team announced the immediate release of the much anticipated PHP 5.3 This version is a major step forward for PHP which introduces namespaces,native closures, late static bindings and optional garbage collection for cyclic references, jump label (g0to). Also a handful of new extensions have been introduced (ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo) and Windows support has [...]
Romanian browser usage trends
I’ve recently made a study about the browsers preferred by romanians. I don’t claim this study to be 100% accurate but it can be useful in some situations. The methodology was simple. I took the browser data for a few of the largest romanian sites listed in Trafic.ro (a web statistics system which provides browser [...]
Yahoo just lost a friend
Yahoo Messenger is the IM software i use most often, not that i really like it but here everyone is using it. So if i want to talk to someone i have to use it. Two days ago it asked me if i want it to automatically update itself. I said why not, lets make [...]
How some people make free software to cost more then commercial software
Free software should be free! That’s why people choose it instead of commercial software. If you don’t have the means, the passion and the time to develop free software then you better don’t do it or make it commercial software. Because when you call a product free, then people expect it to be really free [...]
HTML and Javascript code to crash IE6
I’m a declared adversary of IE6. I even wrote about it a while ago. Now i saw that Cats who code wrote an interesting post with the title 6 HTML and Javascript codes to crash IE6. My favorite is this one : <STYLE>@;/* These code snippets should be everywhere and people who still use IE6 should [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
