Firefox

Fans of firefox always want to know how many downloads are occurring in real time by a counter. So came the development of counters and feeds. But I could not figure out to getting one due to the scattered data available. So this post is an effort to find how to place a firefox download counter on your site. Many of these tools are created by efforts of the hard working Firefox teams, supporters and fans. And as firefox nears 100 million downloads, add a firefox download counter to your site and let the world know. Get Firefox!

It is sad to hear that one of the pioneers in search-engine technology passed away young at the age of only 42. Paul Flaherty was one of the driving forces and masterbrains behind (originally) Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)'s AltaVista, which was one of the first real search engines. I personally liked and used it alot back then and because AV helped me numerous times and saved me countless hours, I really do want to express my compassion and condolences for his friends and family.

And it's an iframe so it can be embed anywhere! Maybe even in Yahoo360 and of course MySpace!

Ajaxwrite is the newest online wordprocessor. It opens and saves documents in Word format (you can also save in PDF), has good basic functionality and is fairly fast. (Techcrunch)(I will do a thorough review next week).

The developer of this application is Michael Robertson. He believes that AjaxWrite, and similar applications like Writely and Zoho Writer, will significantly reduce the need to purchase products such as Microsoft Word in emerging growth markets.

I was just reading, that there is a new free ebook out that has tons of Firefox tips and facts. This book comes from Firefox Facts You can download it from here.

It’s almost a month after the MPAA targeted 5 of the bigger torrent sites. In the meanwhile Isohunt has been planning to fight the MPAA and is currently raising money to do so. Niteshdw on the other hand doesn’t have the money to fight and tries to settle without taking too much damage.

For example, a significant part of the traffic generated by BitTorrent-powered P2P (peer-to-peer) networks now provides the ground, the *marketplace* for the exchange of television shows, films, and not just downloading music files. This, of course, has caught the attention (and earned the enmity) of associations like the MPAA.

Через 6 месяцев, мы полностью переписали сайт с нуля на Ruby on Rails и dojo. Заодно мы увеличили команду вдвое, переделали интерфейс и добавили кучу дополнительных, приятных фич.

This is very frustrating. I’ve been using Safari for several days now prior after the purchase of my brother’s iBook. The browser break at several sites that I pretty much loved such as Writely. It even broke on my WordPress Admin section by not displaying any quicktags (which I sometimes used).

But seriously, besides Ruby on Rails (duplicate a dozen times in PHP by now with limited success), ActiveRecord (duplicated...yada, yada, yada - I dislike metaprogramming of that nature), and a nifty pure OOP syntax it doesn't really offer anything truly awe inspiring. If you're a purist, with strict OOP-Forever ideals go have fun - but PHP just works better in the real world whether its familiarilty, wasting effort on another language to duplicate what PHP already does well, hosting preferences, or some other reason why PHP is preferable. Maybe in a few years with some maturity under its belt, and more widespread adoption...

ROOT is fascinating. ROOT is creating a vault and a market for your attention metadata. Get some context from CEO Seth Goldstein’s talk at ETech. The interface looks like Ajax-y Bloomberg, which shouldn’t be surprising. Goldstein’s blog tagline says it all: “Somewhere between Wall Street and Madison Avenue lies the future of both.” ROOT is Madison Avenue meets Wall Street via Silicon Valley. There are plans to capture attention metadata from websites to videos to music to, well, just about anything that can leave behind metadata breadcrumbs. That data is yours to be stored in /Vault and can be “sold” via /Market. That’s when it all gets fuzzy to me.

Don works at Microsoft. He's 100% working with companies that could become the next big thing, and lists 32 of them. I've personally only heard of three that he mentions: Akimbo, Newsgator and Onfolio (Don - didn't we just buy them??). I need to find out more about Adesso Systems ('WinFS today'), Digipede (gridware) and Fractal Edge (data visualization).

However, it only took a few hours for the UK premiere of Battlestar Galactica to become a global premiere thanks to peer-to-peer networks like BitTorrent. In general, Sci-Fi fans are pretty geeky. Recording and distributing Battlestar Galactica became a global past time for many Sci-Fi fans. Torrent tracking websites like TorrentSpy have an entire Battlestar Galactica listing with 94 different files.

It can open links in a near window size in-page, so you can open any web application inside, like your ajax homepage.(why would one do that?)

圣路易斯的资深软件开发者Curt Hibbs（这里所说的资深指得是30年以上软件开发经验，呵呵）在ONLamp.com的经典Ruby on Rails教程经过InstanceRail开放源码组的精心调整，重装出现在InstanceRail的网站上（链接），用一上午的时间就可以看完，从而得到对Ruby on Rails大概的了解，然后再菜鸟级的你也能对开发一个自己的网络应用充满信心和向往。

At last — the new episode of Consolevania (series 2 episode 3) has arrived! If you’ve never seen it before, you’re in for a real treat. It can be snagged via BitTorrent or HTTP download at the official site, while fans of instant gratification can watch it at Google Video.

Danny over at SearchEngineWatch claims Google’s purchase of Writely.com (a browser-based word processor) drove him over the edge last week. The growing number of things Google “haven’t finished, gotten right or need to fix” led him to compose a list of 25 Things I Hate About Google.

I don't know what Google has up their sleeve for this product, but it's a break from their previous acquisitions. Sketchup is a serious piece of software, which isn't to say that their previous acquisitions weren't, but think of the difference between Microsoft Paint and Autodesk… Google just bought the equivalent of Autodesk. Sketchup, which is an application not a service like Writely, is also targeted at design professionals and architects, a group of people who wouldn't think twice about coughing up $500 a seat for a tool, which is what Sketchup sold for. I wonder if the Google Earth plugin for Sketchup had anything to do with this?

Does anyone remember how, less than a year ago, several commentators suggested Google was compiling a series of products that could emulate an online operating system? At the time, Google steadfastly denied such rumors. Yesterday, Google purchased Upstartle, the maker of a browser-based word processor called Writely.

Would you mind letting us in on your thought process for learning Python as opposed to something else? Is this a new part of feedster or just a personal goal? I am asking because I too am seeking the next step in my personal education and right now I am leaning towards learning Ruby on Rails.

If you’re interested in AJAX development with PHP, head over to Joe’s blog, where he has documented some stuff about the development process and RedLettr. Great stuff.

There’s been a lot of buzz about Ajax lately, but not a lot of good introductory learning resources. That’s why I created the “Ajax Toybox“. (Hereinafter referred to as “The Toybox”.)

Для начала хочется кратко пробежаться по различным шаблонным движкам. Для примера я выбрал Kid (TurboGears), Ruby on Rails и Smarty.

and unfortunately it has nothing to do with sex. No. I am on my knees begging you all to use Firefox. Thanks to sammelsurium (who just translated this post for Blog Against Sexism Day) for pointing out that my new design looked like utter shit in Internet Explorer. I was a bad designer and didn’t think to check to see if it worked in IE. I’ve just spent a few hours working on the bugs and i think i fixed most of them. However, for now you IE users still won’t be able to correctly view some of the graphics (like the ‘blogroll’ and ‘metafied’ images on the right) because they are PNGs. I’d like to switch them to another format so that all you stubborn IE users can get the full transparent experience, but they just don’t look right. Perhaps i’ll figure it all out later, but for now you’re just going to have to get Firefox or deal with it. Sorry.

This is freakin cool: “Goowy is turning into a lot more than just another ajax/flash home page - its a full on desktop platform that is shaping up to be the best competitor to Microsoft’s Live.com…Goowy is now preparing to roll out additional functionality, including integrated instant messaging (look out Meebo) and online storage (via a partnership with box.net, using box’s new API). If you are a Goowy user, look for these features to be included with your account over the next couple of weeks.” Via [TechCrunch]

A whole bunch of AJAX mistakes to keep in mind when playing with the mcguffin that drives web 2.0

We have released the Windows Live Toolbar beta which adds some really cool technology from Onfolio, a company we just acquired. Onfolio grabs scraps of web pages to be shared or viewed later, which is my favorite part. Also, it allows you to collect and read feed collections via a great reader that is integrated into IE so you can read all your feeds in one place. This is a great tool to help organize information that you find on the web.

In working with Rails, I’ve started playing with some basic Javascript stuff—things I’ve long since ignored. To do that, I’m using the script.aculo.us framework that is include (along with Prototype), but running into some odd behaviors with the following example code:

Sean Kelly has posted an interesting comparison (warning 60 min video!) of Rails, TurboGears, Django, Plone, and Java Sevlets/JSP, and full fledged J2EE development.

Leaked news! Google’s next Gmail integration - CL2. Visit TechCrunch for some exlusive screenshots of Google Calendar.

I’m constantly on the look for a new start page setup, since I’m not convinced that I’ve found the best solution yet, and live.com is really cool looking. I especially like that you can make different pages (like with My Yahoo!) and use them like tabs. Hooray ajax.

Microsoft buys Onfolio. Robert Scoble points me to this. I have used Onfolio a lot before, i.e. in late 2004 and early 2005. I have written about in in my previous blog. It is a great product and I am sure Microsoft and it's users will get a lot of value out of it when they integrate it within the toolbars of Microsoft Live. Will it interesting to see in what software will they integrate this tool if they do. To check out what Onfolio has to offer, check out this tour of it's features.

Well as predicted, Calendars would be a big thing, in a previous post Google are just about to realease a calendar application called CL2 according to TechCrunch. The interface is similar to GMail so it'll get huge uptake as people are used to it. I guess the main question I have is can you get to it using a Web Service or API because you could use this calendar system to add, edit, insert and then pull out the information using RSS.

This is a big version release for µTorrent, the popular and lightweight BitTorrent client. The major additions are Peer Exchange and Protocol Encryption, in combination with optimizations to download speed and hard disk accesses.

Beh, un'occhiata a Ruby on Rails..(Rubini su Rotaie..teribbile!) ve la consiglio... cioè a me lo ha consigliato un giovane sviluppatore Svizzero Raven (raven.ch stanno avanti lassù) e visti i progetti realizzati da questo ragazzo un pò di credito glielo darei :-)

15) Check my spam. This isn’t compulsive but the reason my gmail account was suspended, I realize as I get at least 400 a day. Didn’t delete it for nine days, paid the price.

The Hotmail classic feature is mainly an update to the non-AJAX version of WLM for browsers other than IE (although, you can use the non-AJAX version in IE now too). I don’t see why they can’t just create an AJAX version compatible with the other browsers though, I mean, Gmail has shown that Firefox and the like can handle AJAX perfectly well, at most they’d lose their right-click menu. Probably even better than IE. Oh well, here’s a screenshot:

Shared Source, is an umbrella term used by Microsoft for its dabbling in the open-source wave. It encompasses multiple programs that grant licensees to access the source codes from ASP.NET sample kit all the way up to the Windows itself. The license under which SSCLI is distributed does not exactly make it free software as the license fails to satisfy the four freedoms of an free software license. However, there is enough discussion on this topic and certainly nobody can argue that having access to the source code of the CLI is worse than not.

On accessing the website and logging in, the site launches an Instant Messenger window that provides access to the following gateways - Yahoo, Hotmail, ICQ and AIM. The interface is good with the ability to categorize users and IM functionality is also fast. You would see another excellent use of AJAX in this application. I think AJAX is to Web 2.0 what Javascript/Flash was to Web 1.0.

Change 6) I have beefed up the spam blockers on here. For about a month I had VICIOUS attacks on here, mainly because the spam was down, it made the server run at about 20% CPU , which I didn't like. So I took it down until I could clean up the code a wee bit. Which I did, now it runs and I haven't had a spam comment in about a month, not bad.

I have successfully tested this file format with both IE and Firefox. It is provided below as an example for you to utilize, but I make no warranties or claims of fitness-to-purpose. There are many additional testing conditions that might be more relevant to another environment or set of business policies (e.g. Time-of-day, day-of-week, DNS information, etc.).