some personal, more technical – by Thomas Einwaller
As I stated already multiple times I am a big fan of Google Reader. Since I am using Twitter more and more I searched for a way to inform my followers about new items on my Google Reader shared feed. I found this solution Bob Lee uses. It is basically a Greasemonkey JavaScript that allows [...]
MountainGrafix.at verlost einen iPod touch 32GB unter allen die sich ihren RSS Feed abonnieren. Es müssen mindestens 150 Abonnenten sein am 3.8.2008 – also mitmachen!
In: Web
30 Jul 2008Ich muss jetzt mal eine Frage stellen die mich schon länger beschäftigt: Nutzen die Besucher meines Blogs Web 2.0? Und damit meine ich nicht (nur) die “lustigen” social-networking Seiten wie facebook, Xing, StudiVZ und wie sie noch alle heißen. Natürlich haben diese Seiten auch einen Nutzen und ich hab dort auch Accounts aber es gibt [...]
Help us to set a Guinness World Record: most software downloaded in 24 hours. The version 3 of Firefox, the best browser in the world, is released today. UPDATE: Seems like the Mozilla servers are hit hard by the traffic – they seem to be down. Still waiting for the final version (20:48 CEST)
In: Blackberry|Mobile|Web
13 May 2008Today Opera Mini 4.1 was released. This version comes with the following new features: up to 50% faster Find text within a Web page Auto-completion of URLs Download and upload files Save pages for offline viewing As every former version of Opera Mini I already downloaded and installed it on my BlackBerry – go to [...]
Lately there a lot of people are experimenting what is possible wiht JavaScript. Libraries like prototype and scriptaculous are building the base für writing extensive object oriented JavaScript code. Some weeks ago the nihilogic blog presented a Super Mario implemented in 14kB of code playable in the browser. It even includes music Today I found [...]
Lately the amount of JavaScript in web applications has grown a lot. JavaScript has always been there but with the need of AJAX and more and more dynamical features modern web developers can not avoid it. Luckily there are a lot of good concepts arising and libraries available (e.g. prototype, yui, …) that show how [...]
Jeff Atwood posted a link to a site that sells T-shirts and stickers with the following image: I am thinking of ordering some of them. Handling encodings is a very important part of programming and from my experience a lot of developers do not care enough about it. I encourage every developer to read “The [...]
Lately we experienced a lot of performance problems in our AJAX applications. Since we went online a year ago we always had problems with users of Internet Explorer 6 but within the last three months they got more and more. We already knew that this had something to do with the huge memory amount the [...]