I’ve recently downloaded a new version of popular internet browser, Internet Explorer 8 beta. In a few days I’m going to test its performance against Firefox, Opera and Safari the same way I did before.
Meanwhile, I’m going to test drive IE 8.0 to see how it feels and if it could be a real competitor […]
When Microsoft offered 44.6 billion dollars for Yahoo, it seemed very much OK offer. However, there are 5 reasons why Yahoo could not take the offer.
1. Microsoft is being cheap. They offered very low price.
Indeed, Yahoo has 1.39B shares, according to public information about YHOO stock. That means, Microsoft offered $32.086 for each Yahoo share. […]
What is Moimart?
Moimart is a web tool and social network site for conscious buyers and efficient sellers. It helps buyers to get the best price, bigger coupons, rebates and discounts on the things they want. It also helps sellers to advertise their goods very efficiently.
Moimart’s mission
To provide buyers and sellers with mobile commerce platform […]
This is how Google (iGoogle page) header looks like around 3.14 AM:
I’ve made a screen shot a bit later, at 3:16 AM:
Interesting…
Google keeps making fun of usual things. It seems like the big corporation is having human nature, I guess.
If you take a look at recent posts… there are not so many. The reason is simple: I’m so occupied with work, I don’t have time for nothing else.
Just to give you heads-up: I got some information about innovative mobile advertisement engine. What is the most important thing there? Simple: unprecedented ROI. Yes, it’s going […]
Web 1.0 has a simple rule: if you see something link this, this is a hyper link to some other page. Web 2.0 with AJAX parts now offers another type of links, when there is no page reload.
I would like to propose that AJAX links to be different: something like this or like this. Both […]
1. Ten Guaranteed Ways to Screw Any Project
A simple tutorial for first line managers and team leads on how to screw up any project.
2. Lightbox. Image Menu. Forms Validation. Rounded Corners. Sortable Table.
Javascript examples with demos, explanations and source code.
3. Business Side of Web Design
A 40 step review of good processes and habits to run […]
When I published my previous story, I found out that the message “build on the fly” is more than applicable to this very moment.
The problem was: TubeLoem plug-in, which suppose to convert YouTube ID into embedded video, did’t work. Instead of YouTube video visitors could see “[yt]…[/yt]” string, where “…” was YouTube ID of the […]
“Some people like to climb mountains, I like to build planes. In the air. … You never know what come across over there…”. Ad by EDS (Electronic Data Systems).
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This is a really good visualization of what is going on in programmers’ world. This is exactly what “make changes on the fly” means.
Actually, I […]
URL is one of the most important things when it comes to search engine indexing. Compare http://www.yourdomain.com/category/name_of_article_with_keywords to http://www.yourdomain.com/text.php?id=237364. Which one has more chances to be better indexed? Obviously, the one with keywords in URL.
I’m going to explain how to do it in PHP, provide example source code and explain how it works.
There are two […]