Archive | January, 2006

Stupidity strikes

27 Jan

I read this story (scroll down and read the description) about a stolen Apple Powerbook. Two theives stole a powerbook in an office in Sydney, Australia. The morons were stupid enough to connect the powerbook (unaltered) on the internet. But thats not all..*mwuhahaha* Stupidity strikes once again, the guys checked the company email, that way they left their ip adress on the mailserver log files…The owner of the portable soon was onto them and decided to send them an email of the security camera showing different image of their faces entering the building…

And it get’s worse !!! Because they got scared by the email sent to them, they decided to called the owner anonymous (yeah right !) on his cellphone to promess he would get the portable back by taxi post if no further actions were taken. They really knew what they were doing as they turned caller-id off !! haha, like thats gonna help….Guys if i were you, i would go find a good lawyer before the police knocks your door down, good luck !
I had a great laugh with this one (full story). One the otherhand, a good lesson for the owner that you should always back up your important information !

Today’s del.icio.us bookmarks

26 Jan

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user snk00sj on 2006-01-30

Google and BigDaddy

26 Jan

We all know the Google algorythm is a big secret, search results depend on so many factors, that eventually over the years the job of SEO (Search Engine Optimizer) was born. Now whats BigDaddy ? BigDaddy is a term used in the SEO blogworld and over at google itself to name a new datacenter infrastructure (not finished). This will add new capabilities in the “so popular” search engine and change the SEO world once again.
For a more detailed article concerning this matter follow this link.

Some more google news from ITworld.com. Some people think that google homepage will get a makeover soon. I hope they keep it simple and clean like it was before, not too much clutter and unuseful information….but i am sure the brainiacs know what they’re doing…

And some more google news, google launched google news in belgium and netherlands. Google news is a rss feed reader you can customise to your needs. If you want a decent rss feed reader in dutch, have a look at google news

And then another link to something less common, “google admins online stumble” with google video search. Have a look :) It’s not every day you hear negative google news…

Prado v3.0 alpha edition is out

25 Jan

I just got a very nice email concerning the release of an update of my favourite MVC php framework.

We are very pleased to announce that PRADO 3.0 alpha version is now available for downloading. Please use PRADO v3 discussion for topics about this v3 alpha release. We are working on a new website at pradosoft.com which will be available upon v3 beta release.

I got the 3.0a version just 5 minutes ago, because i am starting a new project with another user registration / signup, i decided to give prado a shot. Very nice is the v3 quickstart tutorial, the guys over at xisc realize how important it is to have good user documentation / sample applications.

I used prado v2 before to develop a small intranet, and back then the petshop example (available by CVS) helped me quite alot trying to figure things out…and it seems like they are putting a big effort into documentation once again. Another big advantage is that prado has a good / friendly community, decent questions on the forum get a fast reply, and also developers are hanging around to help people as much as possible, keep up the good work guys ! i’m with ya !

Go get it over at xisc.com

AJAX Frameworks

24 Jan

Cajax :

A PHP class library for writing powerfull reloadless web user interfaces using Ajax (DHTML+server-side) style.

Homepage : http://sourceforge.net/projects/cajax/

On the first view i can’t seem to find a webpage or online documentation, now that’s a bad start. Because there are alot of AJAX frameworks available, i decided to let this one go…i had a look at the sourcecode, some examples included but besides a README.developer file i prefer some more documentation…

AjaxAC

AjaxAC is an open-source framework written in PHP, used to develop/create/generate AJAX applications. The fundamental idea behind AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) is to use the XMLHttpRequest object to change a web page state using background HTTP sub-requests without reloading the entire page. It is released under the terms of the Apache License v2.0.

Homepage : http://ajax.zervaas.com.au/

Also not much documentation, three nice examples are online on their homepage, one example with similar functionality as “Google Suggest”. I downloaded the source file, in total the lib comes down to 56kb (example excluded), all bundled in one big class file with 3 dependencies, i am still playing with the examples to see how this framework works…i’ll keep u posted

XAjaxÂÂ

Ajax-enable your PHP application with a simple toolkit that gets the job done fast.

Some very nice examples online, including a signup form (thats exactly what i needed), i’ll give it a try and let you guys know what i think about it

PHP Form Handling

24 Jan

Goodbye page refreshes, goodbye “post page” before being able to check the inputted data. Nowadays the life of a webdesigner is alot easier because we now have AJAX !

In the “old days”, the way to check form input was to send it to the server using a POST/GET method, then verifying the data and send the user to the appropriate page, depending on the validation of the input. This way of form validation works for everything you want todo, but with larger/more detailed forms you will soon realize that it’s very hard to maintain & extend, and then we’re not talking about the end-user annoyance.

On the internet you will see dozens of AJAX frameworks, websites using AJAX. The best example of this all is Google suggest, type in a keyword and instantly get the number of hits google found for your keyword, no need to refresh, no need to click a button…it’s magic isn’t it ?
But this **** is al over, we’re past that now! some really smart people came up with a thing called Asynchronous JavaScript And XML aka AJAX . The intent is to shift a great deal of computation to the Web surfer’s computer, so the entire Web page does not have to reload when a change is made due to user interaction. Using this technique, webdevelopers can create dynamic forms that instantly check the users input and take appropriate actions after.

In the upcoming posts i will give some AJAX frameworks a go, because i need to find a good way to check the form input on a new website i am developing, the first one that i run into that is easy to use, extendable and fits my needs will be my last post on this matter (for now)….

Today’s del.icio.us bookmarks

22 Jan

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user snk00sj on 2006-01-22

2006 : and another exciting IT year

22 Jan

If you are following tech news, new technologies it makes me feel like it’s going to be a very exciting year for us (webdesigners) and also end-users. Firefox is coming out with v2.0 of their browser, the roadmap looks interesting. With AJAX getting more attention during 2005, all kind of interesting apps / packages / websites are popping up using the “Asynchronous JavaScript And XML” possibilities…

Too much new things are popping up, i can’t seem to catch up fast enough (combined with loads of work and social life)…but hey, what else is new ?

Contact

22 Jan

You can contact me on snk00sj [at] lifelog dot be

Plugins Used

22 Jan

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