Monthly Archives: December 2009

Opera on Mac gets new makeup; From 9.6 to 10.5

I’m seriously happy about Opera right now. Not only have they succeeded at keeping up with the technical updates, their browser is now finally another proud owner of a native shell on Mac. This whole native shell movement really makes … Continue reading

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HTML and CSS Discrepancies
Working around the W3C Box Model

Many thanks to Parakey for their Firebug Firefox Extension and to Opera Software for their Opera Dragonfly without which this CSS study wouldn’t have been possible. If you’re an experienced web interface coder like me, the kind of guy who … Continue reading

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A Google Phone doesn’t have to be the death of Android

[ad#google]Micheal Gartenberg has had a bit of fun saying the Google Phone could be the death of Android. The rumored Google Phone is a would-be carrier-free (unlocked) phone built by HTC and sold directly through Google. As Micheal points out: … Continue reading

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Bing Maps Betas its Way to Silverlight

I’ve just stumbled on the Silverlight beta for Bing Maps this morning while making my daily new-feature check routine and let me tell you this makes you want to develop with Silverlight. The experience is smooth like no other. Essentially, … Continue reading

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Learn Java the Awesome Free Way

In my new career as a Java developer, as I’m French, I’ve been using the siteduzero.com’s Java tutorial. Actually, that’s just when I didn’t want to get my big Deitel and Deitel book out, but seriously, forget about SiteDuZero’s crap. … Continue reading

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Enable Explicit Error Reporting in IIS 7

Well, after trying to find out via Google, I gave up with the stupid answers from dumb ASP.net programmers such as “VBScript is not a server-side language” or “you can’t run .asp on IIS 7″. Sure… So for the curious, … Continue reading

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Google Chrome, Now in Mac and Linux Flavors

Google Chrome is out in beta for Mac and Linux. The real surprise is Linux; only heard rumors of the one for Mac. I’ll post a review here later.

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20 Years Early; Java Applets

Flash Wasn’t Sun’s Java Applet technology was 20 years early, but Flash wasn’t. Two years after the Java Applet technology first appeared, which enabled Java bytecode to run directly in the browser, Macromedia came in with Flash (technically one year … Continue reading

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