Month: November 2006
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Battle of the frameworks
Commercial ones that is. InfoWorld put together four of the largests commercial AJAX frameworks and compared them. And the winner was Backbase. You can read the whole story here.
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Games + Web = Flash
Or the other way around. I’m not a big gamer, at least not in the last years (heh, the Fallout and Warcraft era has fallen) but one of the games I have played and enjoyes was StarCraft. Not the campaigns or the single scenarios, but for its multiplayer. Although, one has to admit that the…
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Thou shalt test your software or else …
Or else your users will find your bugs the hard way – by crashing into them. And I don’t think anyone wants to see its app go up in flames because of some sloppy developer that forgot to test its library. For some time now I have been working to fix some bugs and add…
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Command history
Today I found out from Ha neat trick in Windows XP’s command line console (cmd for friends): it has a built-in history of commands. If you open up the console and issue some commands, and then later on you hit F7 you will be prompted with a MS-DOS style window. From this window you can…
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Giveaway software
Today I stumbled into an applied example of an old marketing principle: give something out for free for a while, hook users onto it and then, if they want it they will pay for it. You would think that applied to software it means demos and trials. So did I until today when I stumbled…
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The virtual office
I’ve read before some posts on this topic – mostly on Lifehacker, as an informative tidbit. And lately I have had the opportunity to put that into practice for a small project on which some friends are starting work (no, I won’t expose it yet 🙂 ). They are a small team – only three…
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Microsoft hoax – the new M$ Firefox
As noted yesterday by Ionut (in romanian), The Register pulled a nice one on Microsoft and made public a news on the aquisition and subsequent release of the Microsoft Firefox 2007 browser. Hey, even the website has some of the Microsoft characteristics – a constant push to upgrade to the professional version. Overall, a nice…
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Robocop is on his way now
A bit disturbing I would say, but a step that was predictable .. I only wonder what the specs are for the processor.
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YANB – short for Yet Another Blog
Aafter being a while on blogspot and Yahoo 360 I have decided to get a fresh, clean start with a blog engine that I personally like. And since at the moment I do not have the time (and mood) to put up my own server I opted for the wordpress hosted blogs. I hope I’ll…