Monthly Archives: June 2009

What are they thinking? Opera still proprietary

This came to mind recently, what the hell is Opera Software thinking? They’re code is still proprietary, is there any point or benefit. I mean, even webkit is open source, they’ll only be left further behind if they keep this … Continue reading

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PHP Particularities: Escaping characters the right way

PHP, like any language has its particularities. One of the them is the inability to understand escaped characters which aren’t in double quotes. So yes, there is a technical difference between a quote and a double quote in a programming … Continue reading

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Windows 7 Pricing Fail

A few days ago Microsoft released the official US pricing for Windows 7, which got detailed in a beautiful feature comparison by Paul Thurrott. In some ways, I could say Microsoft did exactly what they shouldn’t have done, put the … Continue reading

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Feature Crap: Safari What?

Today I got a funny experience on TechCrunch that led me to accept that yes, other IE alternatives really are incomplete, well, Safari is at least. So, I’m in Safari 4 on my Mac, browsing Tech Crunch, and I want … Continue reading

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How secure should your wireless network be?

Wireless network security is something often overlooked. Network is already complicated enough, most will simply bypass the complicated setups and go along with unprotected network access for years. But even if you go through the trouble, there’s a tone of … Continue reading

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The new video element in Firefox 3.5, despite having been implemented much earlier by Safari, is making all the rave on the web, especially in the open source community. However, you may still want to stick with Flash for the … Continue reading

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Saving yourself from Piracy: Make it free

Examples Matter – What Ragnarok Online did and should have done from the start Ragnarok Online is one of the MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) games you could say missed the opportunity. Initially the game was a cost per month only … Continue reading

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Browser Speed is not all about Load Speed

Have you ever had this weird feeling that although Google Chrome itself was quick, the page was dreadfully slow? If yes, it’s perfectly normal, because Google Chrome may be the worst in dynamic page render speed. Hmm, what’s dynamic page … Continue reading

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Left in the dust: IE’s demise

When Acid2 was released, it took a few months for Safari to pass it (webkit), a year for Opera (presto) and 3 for Firefox. Internet Explorer took 4 years, with the release of Internet Explorer 8. Now that Acid3 is … Continue reading

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Object Oriented CSS – A Primer

Preface Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS) has recently made some buzz in the web industry and for very good reasons. It’s the kind of thing I go: why didn’t I think about this? As a CSS architect, I’m very enchanted to … Continue reading

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