Category: Internet
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Flex API contest extended
The guys with the Flex 360 conference have extended the deadline for their Flex API contest, so that participants for Europe can sign in as well, The new deadline is 4th of April, the friday before the conference begins. See more information on this here and here. Also, there’s almost a month to go until…
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Preview handlers
I’m using Office 2007 for some time now and the ability to preview the content of some files without actually opening them in the dedicated editor is quite nice. It’s a pity that the number of supported file types is so small. A good thing is that they everyone can create such a preview handler,…
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Why can’t we just erase accounts?
We optimized the way we create accounts on various sites. We optimized how to recover lost passwords or set preferences. Bt why can’t we do the same to remove an account? Most people already have this: too many accounts on sites / web applications that they no longer use, like or are even annoyed. But…
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FlexCamp is upon us
Today at Adobe Romania takes place the FlexCamp Bucharest. It’s a conference about Flex which had already sold out in the first three weeks from its announcements. I will hold a camp session showing off the improvements we have added into Flex Builder in terms of web services – the introspection wizard which generates strong…
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Silverlight 1.0 is out the door with a surprise
Yesterday Microsoft launched Silverlight 1.0. Officially it is supported by Microsoft on Windows and Mac. So if you’re running on Linux, tough luck. Or is it? Along the lines of what seems to be an ongoing internal disagreement on how to treat open-source, the developer division seems to be the one that opens up first…
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How do you create an Apache module for Windows?
Part 2: The Windows way. Until Apache 2.0, the community disregarded using the webserver on Windows systems. It’s true that the 1.3 release also had a Windows version, but it has always seemed that it was treated like the ugly duckling. Even the release notes stated that it works, but it’s not recommended to use…
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Updating WordPress
I guess everyone knows by now about what happened with WordPress release 2.1.1. It seems that a hacker managed to get an account on one of the download servers and tampered with some of the releases. He added some exploitable code that allows remote control of the blog (e.g. this usually means the possibility to…
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Wikipedia out of ca$h?
Acording to a declaration made by Florence Devouard, Wikipedia may be in the slumps – “At this point, Wikipedia has the financial ressources to run its servers for about 3 to 4 months.”. This may very well be just arather extraordinary example of begging for money, or a way to put itself on the shelf,…
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Blogging essentials?
There aren’t too many! I’ve come upon an interesting article today that explains what are the “must have” tools if you’re a blogger. You can read the entire article here, but I think they are kind’of missing the point. All one needs to write an interesting blog is content. Sure, having it look decent is…
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Shopping spree
Yahoo starts the new year with another acquisition – MyBlogLog.com. This is a move to further go into the blogger world, aside their own Yahoo! 360. True, the two are not quite in the same category, but MyBlogLog.com provide a nice service and the founders got rewarded through this. You can read their blog post…