Firefox

With the release of the BackupBluray utility, we knew it was just a matter of time before Blu-ray rips started to appear on torrent trackers. The prediction has now come true, Blu-ray rips are now being seeded right along side HD DVD rips.

On a more practical note, if someone could tell me how to combine the functionality of Kashou’s Inline Ajax Comments with Mike Smullin’s Ajax Comments 2.0, I’d be incredibly grateful. I fiddled plenty, but it’s not something I’m like to figure out on my own.

I have been using Onfolio blog reader since I installed MSN Live toolbar sometime ago; its nothing special but does the job. The biggest problem for me is that onfolio stores state offline so when I read a blog at work (during lunch of course!) it gets marked as read but then when I go home I have to mark it as read again....bit of a pain but at the time I had a look at Google reader and didn't like it so stuck it out with Onfolio.

La gente de Yahoo! Argentina actualizó el servicio de correo. Renovaron la imagen, estructura y funcionalidad. Creo que con estos cambios, pasa a ser el mejor servio de correo electrónico entre los 3 grandes… Por más que me gustaban Gmail (beta) y WL Mail (beta) el nuevo correo de Yahoo! se pasó! Para los que ya tenían una cuenta, cuando se logueen les va a aparecer una ventana invitándolos a probar la nueva versión o para decir que luego lo harán.

There are volumes on IA that go well beyond the scope of a single blog entry, and I encourage anyone who is interested in website design or simple surfing to at least browse one or two, if not take the time to thoroughly study the concepts. The larger websites of the world are designed by teams these days, and those teams typically have a person or person(s) responsible for and educated in IA, but the majority of sites are still put together by individuals who give cursory if any consideration for the organization of the content within the sites. (There are still large organizations that apparently have little or no understanding of IA, or else have allowed the concepts to fall victim to internal politics — I won’t name names, but will generalize that higher education and some e-commerce sites are impossible to comfortably surf on occasions.)

My pangs of withdrawal continued until I got a mysterious email from an AOL address I didn’t recognize. I clicked through my spam blockers, which informed me the email contained content “forbidden under company policy.” More sleuthing revealed that the email had been sent to me (apparently by mistake) at 10:13 a.m. from the AOL account of one of our VPs. The “forbidden content”? An invite to her holiday party. From then on, I figured if AOL was good enough for a VP, it was good enough for me. -Submitted by “Bored in Boston”

The width and height can be modified to any size you want. The autoplay feature and looping can be turned on and off by using “true” or “false”. So far, I tested it on my old mac in Firefox and Safari. It works in Firefox, but not so well in Safari, in fact, not at all in Safari. All I see is the static quicktime logo sitting there, all quiet, taunting me. If your on a windows machine, I’d like to know if you’re able to play the clip.

Das Web-Framework Ruby On Rails (auch als Rails oder RoR bezeichnet) wurde in Version 1.2.1 freigegeben. Neu in dieser Version ist die Unterstützung für REST und HTTP-Status Codes. Download

I’ve been moping about this week about Ruby… I haven’t done it in about 4-5 months since being back in PHP-Land? I’m having withdrawals. It all started after I read this article Technologies of the Year 2006 (BTW -I have done all of them!). I was thinking ..awwww… Rails…. and I picked up my Rails book at work that I look at when I am fed up with PHP, just to cheer me up a bit. I skipped the last Ruby meeting, at the last minute the buddies that I thought would go with me backed out.. and.. well.. I was pretty tired and the topic of “Environments” made me think it would be a mac-love fest. I used to want a mac laptop, but… I’ve decided to stick with the PC environment since I am happiest in Ubuntu.

There are still a couple of seats left in the Advanced Tutorial, where we’ll be talking about Ajax and MochiKit. We’ll also be covering some of the features you can already import from the __future__ of TurboGears — SQLAlchemy, and Genshi.

Here is my list of what I consider to be the Best Free Technical Training and Tutorial submissions for the last month to the programming section of digg.com. These cover several areas, including general programming tutorials, understanding how to code better, Perl, Javascipt and PHP scripting, CSS, Python and Ruby programming, Ajax web application development, web design, and freely available technical and programming ebooks.

Alright, so there wasn’t any actual kissing going on, but there was a great meeting on OpenID and Firefox 3.0 at Mozilla this afternoon. We’ve heard that Mozilla was interested in supporting OpenID in Firefox 3.0, but what does that really mean?

While I’m waiting for my gmail to start working again I thought I’d test out this little blog app for firefox.

The trend toward 1024 and 1280 resolutions means more than you might think. When designing for 800×600 we typically keep “important” items such as navigation, news scrollers, images, key text, etc. above 400px. We call this the ‘fold line’. This term is more commonly used by Newspapers to determine placement for news stories. Newspapers put their best stories in the upper half of the page ( or above the “fold”). A website design concept with an overall height of 700px high means navigation and key elements should be in the top 400 pixels to make sure people browsing at 800×600 resolution view the content without having to scroll down. But, if the accepted standard shifts from 800×600 to 1024×768, your “fold-line” moves down and you have more of that non-scrollable real estate to devote to key web elements. If the trend shifts towards 1280, as the graph suggests, you have even more.

digg tiene demasiados clones, con el éxito del sitio han aparecido clones en casi todos los idiomas, en español el más conocido es menéame, que no se le acerca ni a los talones a la elaborada arquitectura de digg, menéame es otro sitio que he probado por un tiempo y me ha decepcionado. Está lleno de gente que echa abajo la mayoría de las noticias que se publican, se siente una mala onda en el sitio. Como si las únicas noticias importantes fueran del último productos de Apple, o de la última versión de Firefox.

The always remarkable Free Software Foundation have released a new campaign/site: http://badvista.fsf.org/

What you need to do: Sign up for a free account, easy if you have a gmail account,(if you don’t tell me, I will send you an invitation) or sign up with your other email ID. Then head over to the blogs you want to keep in touch with and find a button that says “FEED” (or subscribe) it’s usually bright orange and easy to find. Click on the link and follow onscreen instructions.

HostICan has updated its web hosting plans this new year. First and foremost they have added PHP5 and Ruby on Rails support to their hosting accounts. Also, they have implemented FastCGI.

On the other side, Firefox had a single 9 day window of vulnerability to an exploit.

Cisco offers a free version of TACACS+ that you can download. However, please note that it is not a fully supported version. In fact, Cisco seldom updates the free TACACS+ daemon and it lacks several of the advanced features of commercially available TACACS+ software. Furthermore, Cisco warns that this free software comes with no warranty or support.