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Archive for January, 2010
Apple Reveal iPad
Jan 28th
After so much expectation, a new family member of Apple named iPad, has seen the light. Steve Jobs introduced it in his annual San Francisco event and has already produced long queues to book on major stores.
IPad is called, weighs just 680 grams, and is thin, only 13,4 mm. This is the newest member of the Apple that was released yesterday. Steve Jobs, CEO of the firm, on its annual event in San Francisco released its new device to thousands of expectant people. And that, along with the iPhone, which was introduced three years ago, has become one of the More >
Php Frameworks
Jan 26th
I decided to jump over the MVC (Model View Controller) pattern and on one of my linkedin groups I drop a question:
Which one is best?
A huge amount of PHP programmers started to join this discussion writing their personal PHP Framework tastes, providing me with a huge list of Frameworks I would like to share with you. I don’t say that one is best that another, as one of the members said, there is no ‘best PHP MVC Framework, is whatever suits you best on your project goals’.
I know the list could be much bigger, if you know more PHP More >
Get Latitude and Longitude with Google Maps V3
Jan 22nd
I would like to share with you a little piece of code that I find quite useful in my applications. I do create lots of guides that require a small utility to find out the latitude and longitude of a business location from a control panel in order to display the maps appropiately on the Web. Here I will do my best to explain a step procedure on how to do that -once you know the procedure, it is easy to create plugins or whatever you wish to do.
Step 1First of all, lets make a reference to the new More >
Germany recommends not using Internet Explorer ‘for security’
Jan 18th
Microsoft recognizes that the security of their browser failed to recent attacks on Google
Europa Press News
The Federal Office of Information Security from Germany, warned Internet users to find an alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) ‘to ensure their security’, after Microsoft recognized that their browser failed in the recents attacks to Google’s sytems.
However, according BBC Channel, Microsoft rejected the advice of the Federal Office, saying that the risk to their users was low and by improving the security settings in Internet Explorer would solve the problems.
Nevertheless, German authorities said that even improving its security settings would make More >
jQuery 1.4 -Are you ready?
Jan 14th
jQuery lovers, today, 14th of January, the programmers of jQuery celebrate its anniversary releasing a new version of this wonderful library. Better iFrame support, great new shorthands, I don’t know what to say fellows but I am eager to find out what its new features are capable of.
The jQuery programmers not happy with a new release has also created a new jQuery API site. Check what they have done on their API site here.
John Resig will announce 1.4 release details tomorrow but meanwhile, you can download it and see for yourself.
Fixing 500 Internal Error on Xampp
Jan 12th
First of all, let’s talk about XAMPP a bit. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.
There are three types of distribution (Windows, Linux and Mac). I am not going to discuss anything about XAMPP, I think that with a visit to their site you will all the info required to install and run this wonderful package.
What I want to concentrate on is that when trying to use a regular .htaccess in a specific folder, Apache fires a beautiful and really annoying More >
EzRegAPI OCX Control
Jan 12th
Here is another Activex Control I have created on the old times of Visual Basic. This time, it easiest the tasks of a programmer to use the registry API functions of Windows.
Visual Basic was one of my preferred languages when I started programming, everybody thought that it was a very slow programming language and, even more, it was not a true programming language. My love for this pseudo-language was so strong that I decided to prove to everybody that, with a bit of tweaking here and there and making use of the DLL libraries, I could speed up the application More >
Build iPhone Web Apps with iWebKit
Jan 5th
Iwebkit is the revolutionnairy open source development kit used to create high quality iPhone and iPod touch websites in a few minutes. In the first 4 months of it’s existance the pack has greatly evolved from a basic idea to a project that has reached worldwide fame!
This Open Source Free Development Kit is accessible to anyone even people without any html knowledge and is simple to understand. In a couple of minutes you will have created a full and profesional looking website.
Awesome new and advanced features offered by no pack in the world like a custom popup and iphone-style form elements.
Check out their More >
SWFUpload_0_0. Error HTTP Status: 403 Solved
Jan 5th
SWFUpload is a client-side file upload tool originally developed by Vinterwebb.se. It uses a combination of Flash and JavaScript to provide file upload functionality beyond what the basic browser provides with the <input type=”file” /> tag.
The main features that SWFUpload provides are:
- The ability to select multiple files in the file browser dialog.
- AJAX-style uploading without a page refresh.
- Upload progress events.
- Namespaced classes compatible with other JavaScript libraries (i.e., jQuery, Prototype, etc.).
- Flash 9 and Flash 10 support. (Flash 8 support dropped in version 2.2.0)
SWFUpload is different from other Flash based upload tools because of the philosophy behind its design. SWFUpload gives developers control by More >
eyeOS a ‘very close’ Web Operating System
Jan 4th
eyeOS a Web Operating System
I would like to talk to you about an open source Web application that I have followed since its beginnings: eyeOS. This application started with the goal to become a true Web Operating System and now the guys call it Open Source Cloud Computing’s Web Desktop. Even though the idea of having the system files on a server and have ‘dumb’ clients is not new, these guys have created a great tool and nowadays they even work in conjunction with the IT monster IBM.
Maybe the dreamed future of every System Administrator is near, where they do More >
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