I killed Mephisto. Screw Rails’s inability to perform on shared hosts, and screw using a system that no-one has updated in any real way in years.

Read more: New Blog Engine and Feed Urls

A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects: All software is subject to copyright law. The moment you save code to a file, copyright law gives you certain rights to control what other people can do with your work. Because almost everybody who contributes code to a software project has rights with respect to their code, understanding the basics of copyright is essential to running a FOSS project.

Read more: A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects

Ajax and Flash mistakes was pretty interesting. Some new idea for Kindo there, and some affirmations of stuff that I have been feeling negative about for a while. Also some affirmations of stuff we’ve done well too. Checkout slideshare.net

Read more: Thoughts on first day of SxSW - 8th March 2008

It’ll be cool if Google tells the publishers about it or at least clarifies about that how are they selecting the sources of the related pages section of the Gmail sidebar.

Read more: Gmail shows Related pages in the sidebar!

This session felt like a recap session on some of the technologies the client-side AJAX support. I am constantly impressed by the javascript intellisense support that is avialble inpeople are already using in their day-to-day development. You can see his own recounting of the session here. He talked about Muti-targeting, CSS support and LINQ to SQL for data access. He next walked through a pretty simple example of using a server-side UpdatePanel to reduce screen flicker.

Read more: Mix08 Day 2

Visiting the Microsoft Office Live Workspace promises to allow users to store as many a 1000 documents online and share them with colleagues. Sounds good. Unless you try and sign up for the free service and you’re running Linux. If you are running Linux then you’ll be greeted with a screen informing you that you’ll need to be running a version of Windows or MacOSX and either Internet Explorer or Firefox (good to see Firefox in there).

Read more: Microsoft makes online Office play, but not for Linux

Fue después de leer ayer tarde esta entrada de Andrés Nieto que se me ocurrió que quedaría bonito hacer una comparativa del estado actual de las betas de Explorer y Firefox. Y aquí está. Con todos ustedes el navegador más usado del panorama y el intrépido aspirante:

Read more: Explorer 8 vs. Firefox 3

I’m sitting on hold with my website hosting company, Bluehost, waiting for tech support. Here’s a company that impresses me with its customer service, and here’s why:

Read more: Humane voicemail waiting queue

Second, Facebook. Why is Facebook so popular? Once again, it’s simple: curiousity, jealousy, etc. People love to check up on friends, show off to friends, etc. More so than anything, the Photos application has made Facebook what it is today. Knowing where and when you’re being tagged, along with the ability to find pictures of your friends is, simply put, completely targeted at human emotions. People can’t help but use it. THAT is compelling content. And best of all, it’s user-generated, AJAX-validated (ie, it fills in names based on your existing friends list) and virtually maintenance free. It’s really the perfect idea for traffic generation.

Read more: Website Success: Part Two

Firefox went to its knees under the load, but it survived until I could kill the window. Yay for popup blockers.

Read more: Thank you, Firefox

Focus Generator is a really neat (and new) technology which will allow you to present an attention getting marketing message on your website without getting blocked by popup blockers.

Read more: Focus Generator Review

But if you’re using Firefox, which you should be instead of the annoying IE, you can use a script to do a quick fix and be able to access blogspot, wordpress, wikipedia, and livejournal.

Read more: Getting around the GFC

My most popular post is Test Driven Development with ASP.Net and the Model View Presenter Pattern, which is a bit ironic because I've even put up a warning message on that post pushing people to look at MonoRail or the MVC framework instead of the MVP pattern for web development. A couple months after that I read the Pragmatic Programmer's book on Ruby on Rails and I've hated that ASP.NET post ever since. If I had to pick my favorite post, I'd go with My Programming Manifesto.

Read more: 500th Post

Every Malaysia blogger have had thanked Google at some point of their blogging journey (or career). Now, it’s my turn finally to be able to thank Google for their monetary donation in supporting my annual domain and website hosting.

Read more: Thanks For The Monetary Support Google

Heads up to our Live team - this would be one to work over Christmas on to gain some big kudos. Just blow the dust of OnFolio and webbify it??

Read more: fav.or.it's BIG window of opportunity