Firefox

Two recent developments in Google’s ever-expanding assortment of online applications show real promise: Google Docs and Spreadsheets and Picasa Web Albums.

Drop 6 of the Web Client Software Factory is now posted on the CodePlex site here. If your not familiar with the WCSF it's from the PAG group and is intended to provide guidance on building ASP.NET applications that combine workflow, AJAX and bring a flavor of the Smart Client CAB to the web.

I have been alternating, back and forth, between my MacBook Pro and a Windows XP notebook for development, depending on where I’m at. This has been relatively easy through the use of Subversion, however, I keep running into a consistent problem when using Rails and PostgreSQL together:

It seems there's a bit of confusion preceeding the release of Firefox (FF) 2.0

Ameritrade’s Becker said the company advises clients to make sure they have good spyware detection software on their computers. Ameritrade’s Web site also offers clients free software that helps detect or eliminate snooping programs.

This free software isn’t just an uninstaller utility but also a clicktrail and Registry cleaner, secure file file eraser and basic system privacy tool.

wired.com列出了他们认为的 5个最好的BitTorrent软件的优缺点，优点就不说了，看原文吧， 没优点还会不会用这个程式呢？俺列了一下部分缺点

Akamai provided global Internet caching meaning a client browser requesting a specific file when is then sent to another website which gives you the index page of the source site of the file. From the source code you can parse it into your site as an image, video or audio file. The disadvantage here was the hoops one had to go through in order to get a file, plus the fact that they could only use the servers provided to them. Now take BitTorrent, every client is also a server, hence the more popular a file is the faster it can be downloaded because more clients or servers in this case that host the give file. Again the lesson here is to give the power to the people.

Surprise surprise, got redirected to docs.google.com - writely is now known as "docs" and is open to anyone with a Gaccount, and is furthermore integrated into Spreadsheet.

The new controversial TVUPlayer has appeared on the internet and could be the TV studio’s biggest enemy since Bittorrent. This new player allows you to potentially watch any television channel in the world on your PC.

One of the coolest brands in the world, WeSC, have launched a pretty smart campaign on the world’s largetst bittorrent site The Pirate Bay. They have placed a huge banner on their frontpage (featured above) and when you click the banner you’ll get access to 3 different bittorrents: WeSC.Calendar.PAL.DVDr-WeSC, WeSC.Calendar.DVDRip.XviD-WeSC.avi and WeSC.Calendar.Episodes.DVDRip.XviD-WeSC. Smart move Greger Hagelin!

For the past few months, since upgrading Firefox to one of the 2.0 betas, I've been somewhat lost without my handy del.icio.us integration courtesy of the official del.icio.us extension for Firefox (which isn't 2.0-compatible).

Buen ejemplo es el de hoy, ya que ha salido Google Docs & Spreadsheets, página que amalgama el estupendo procesador de texto Writely y las tablas de cálculo google spreadsheets. Suelo usar writely para escribir y almacenar documentos personales, de hecho, muchas de las entradas de este mismo blog han sido escritas y enviadas desde allí ya que el editor de Wordpress es un poco parco. Google ha cambiado su estética adaptándola a su imagen de empresa haciéndola muy similar al insuperable Gmail (de hecho ya no se lee Writely por ningún lado) pero por lo demás las funcionalidades siguen siendo las mismas, se pueden subir y descargar archivos de texto, bloguear desde allí, compartir escritos con otros usuarios, crear un documento simplemente enviándolo como email o como attach de un email… una gozada.

And, they’ve got Ruby on Rail container! You can install you own Gems and manage you own RoR instance. The container will increase size automatically if your application grows larger.

I’m picking up Ruby and Rails. PHP/MySQL is so, like, college, dude. So far it’s pretty fun. The whole ethic of it all is great: everything should be as easy as possible! Infinite configurability is fine but let’s have aggressive, sensible defaults because you don’t need to reinvent the wheel every time! Use your programming brainpower on the programming part not all the run-up stuff!

Provate ad accedere alla vostra Gmail, e noterete la comparsa di una nuova voce nella barra laterale (vedi screenshot sotto, evidenziata da una freccia rossa).

I like the tabbed browsing so far, initially when I first used it in Firefox, I didn’t like it, but it was just because I was used to alt tabbing between windows, etc, but, I’m old and set in my ways. This is a lot better than the grouping that was introduced in earlier versions; I turned that off in about 2 seconds.

This may sound paradox but spreading your content on the web and different sites may be a much more efficient way to make it available than keeping it on one server. Of course you need to use the right sites to do so. We live in exciting web times where you can upload your photos to flickr and connect to other picture enthusiasts, upload videos to youtube , share links at del.icio.us and documents at writely.

A ako posledné si ukážeme, ako to všetko použiť v Ruby on Rails.

Just download and go…..no install required….RadRails is a sweet IDE for Ruby on Rails.

It wasn't until I was driving away that evening that the last piece of the puzzle clicked in my head. Windows Live Writer was created by the same team that brought us Onfolio. This team of hungry developers was acquired from the "outside".

I've been doing a lot more Atlas...err... ASP.NET AJAX lately so expect to see more on the blog about that. I still am not convinced that not keeping the Atlas tag around isn't useful. I can search for Atlas UpdatePanel and get better results then if I search "ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel". But then again I still think of workflow as WWF!