Today I whished to add RSS and Atom support to one of my projects. When I took a look at the standard I realised it would be naif to spend time trying to support all the versions and imcompabilities of RSS. I then searched for projects implementing this and found one, to RSS, that fitted […]
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Browsers History, Back and Forward – Time To Enhance?
September 24th, 2006Ever since I know World Wide Web, and I believe ever since its very begin, browser’s history had been atomic, with one path or two-dimension if you prefer. While this concept is very simple and easy to understand, there are some cases where browsers could help us improving productivity. What exactly am I talking about, […]
Privacy Is Not Simple…
September 17th, 2006For a while, I’ve been working on this. Now that I saw something similar on a Slashdot article I decided to publish my own research. The truth is that the problem uncovered by that article handles the problem of handling your own users – maybe other site’s users if they use those kind of tracking […]
Small cleanup on my blog
August 29th, 2006Well, if you happen to read portuguese and read some of the few last posts, they are no more readable. I’ve deleted them because they are too depressing, the subject didn’t really deserve the honor (cof cof) to be here and stand to the time. There are things that are better death, in fact they […]
Petition to Reverse “.NET 3.0” Name
August 10th, 2006Today, I’ve found that some users are doing a petition to try to reverse the recently announced “.Net 3.0” name to the previously known WinFX tecnologies. So far, the best arguments I’ve tought and read are that there will be a confusion between C# 3.0, and a few other things, and the name .Net 3.0. […]
Miguel de Icaza on “Exame Informática”
August 8th, 2006Tody I bought this months’s edition of “Exame Informática”, one of the best computer/software/gadgets magazine in Portugal and just found an interview with Miguel de Icaza. I’m not sure the interview was done by the portuguese author, as I believe I’ve seen those questions somewhere else, but hey, they could be just similar. The interview […]
Table-less Freaks VS Reality
July 16th, 2006So, we need a nice little cute of our page to have round corners. Cool. The easy way? Do a table with 8 or 9 images, depending on the background, if its a solid color you only need 8 images, a pattern, you need 9. The next step if to have some freak Table-less guru […]
Busy times with AJAX, Javascript and Effects
July 11th, 2006Lately I’ve not been able to blog much. I’ve been very busy working on ePortal that is improving very much. Thanks to the help of some nice libraries I’ve found I’ve been able to replace some of compatibility code I’ve done in the past. The biggest problem is, of course, Internet Explorer. I’ve even found […]
.Net Framework 3.0 to be released with Vista (Updated)
June 12th, 2006UPDATE: Microsoft has a new community site for .Net 3.0 – NetFx3 – with lots of information and some popular RSS toolkits. In this MSDN blog Somasegar explains that many developers were confusing the tecnologies, so they decided to rename WinFx to .Net 3.0. What this really means is that the Windows Presentation, Communication, Workflow […]
Sync your data
June 9th, 2006Today I read the news about Google Sync FireFox Extension, funny, because I’ve been doing something similar. I’ve tried it and I’m not enjoying it that much, first because the cookie sync had broken several things, second because it is slow, CPU intensive, and intrusive – you can’t do anything while it is doing an […]
Hackers and UFO
May 6th, 2006A really cool interview with a hacker in search for proof of extraterrestial life. Here. Well, this is BBC, yet he could be saying those things just to earn money or something else, but I don’t believe he is lying. I do believe in UFO’s and I do believe governments, specially USA, are hiding it […]
Cyborgs
April 26th, 2006While surfing the Slashdot comments to their current poll entitled “What Kind of Bot Would You Be?” I had some of the most funny moments of the week. Specially this comment: «Personally I picked Soongian android partly for that reason. We know they come “fully functional”, so it’s close enough. Just make sure you get […]
Tableless design…
April 25th, 2006While ago, about 5 years, when I started developing web applications for a small company called Widesolutions, I was introduced to tablebased design. I rembember my opinion was and is that it is simple and it makes sense. Today, I think exactly the same with a few more ideas. Layers, or divs, can do most […]
New controls with Gtk ideas
April 8th, 2006For my current job in ePortal I’ve been designing some new controls that mostly add features not present in the HTML native ones. One such features is the ability to add an icon (or something else like a checkbox) to a dropdown list (combobox). How do we solve this? By implementing it using HTML, but […]
Clean ASP.Net control rendering, another way
April 2nd, 2006After reading Joe Audette «Cleaner Rendering of ASP.NET Server Controls Coming Soon!» blog post I was sad I were developing with ASP.Net 1.1 and that would be a very nice addition to my current project(s). ASP.Net 2.0 has good support to change the rendering of controls, yet I found that the same is possible to […]
The C(haos) day
March 29th, 2006Slashdotted and reported by many other news sites, IE will change the way it handles ActiveX content. They tell you that there will be minimal impact, but I don’t believe it. Some problems will be with ads, you’ll need 2 clicks to close those nasty things, to stop music and the case is worst in […]
Torrent Web
March 22nd, 2006Torrent is a nice techology that enables distributed access to a file. Users share their connection and in the end the server doesn’t need to handle huge bandwidth problems and it saves costs. While this is desired by some, there are places where this scheme needs changes. For instance, Torrent could be used to balance […]
Cool bet from Microsoft
March 21st, 2006I’ve checked the news (sourceforge) before, but now I needed to check some information about Microsoft Expression ?suite? and I saw the videos again. I’ve to confess that I’m impressed with their work. Not only they are managing to create a possible Fireworks/Photoshop killer but they are bringing together the designer and developer rules. This […]
Managing my email
March 16th, 2006For about 2 years now, I’ve been using dovecot as an local IMAP server to store my email. Truth is that it is becoming more slow each day. So, I’m planning to move it to my server and start handling all the email in there. I’m thinking of giving a try to cyrus and something […]
Corba.Net
March 13th, 2006While using the native .Net libraries you only have two options to Remoting: Tcp and Http. While this is enough for most cases, people wishing to integrate with Java and other Corba implementations may miss Corba.Net. I’ve not tested it either in Mono or .Net, this is only a reference to anyone that may find […]
jsx
March 12th, 2006One of the benefits of ASP.Net is that you have a set of controls specially designed to handle different browsers and HTML versions. While the structure is there and somehow it actually works, in ASP.Net 1.1 some MS controls don’t actually work well in other browsers but IE. Thats MS implementation fault, not ASP.Net fault. […]
Suspending Linux
March 9th, 2006Presently to suspend you desktop or laptop you only have two options. The stock swsup that comes with the kernel and Suspend 2. Swsusp never worked for me, on the other hand Suspend 2 does a great job providing me an hibernation like experience with graphical suspend and resume phases. The sad thing is that […]