From David Johnson Web 2.0 is not about having cool software to install on your own personal web server, it’s about getting locked into services provided by and trusting your data to Web sites that you do not control I don’t know, may be because now it’s too easy to roll out your own Web 2.0 application in a...
After trying to figure out why the Recent Entries and Recent Comments (right side column) were not playing nicely with my new template, I’ve managed to update the style. The new theme is as you can read from the footer is “Based on WordPress Theme by Vladimir Simovic”. The problem during the update was due to some variables scoping...
JRoller (or is it Roller?) is becoming a real mess (from a user perspective). After accepting the fact that it is real slow (take away the javascript), it’s now more and more unstable. First; My Referrers are gone. I can take the fact that no one is interested in my postings, but, I can’t imagines I’m “that” unpopular. Second;...
The first of three posts of what was keeping me busy in the past few weeks. After being fascinated with Egypte D’antane with its loads of period images of my homecity of Alexandria, I thought of a Mash up that would put these images on their respective Google Maps locations (as I said before, it’s as close as I...
Oh! I didn’t know all these existed in the early days. I feel betrayed. I only remember Donkey Kong’s bananas. May be now is a good time to catch up
Hisham at work discovered by coincidence this marvel. The website has a huge collection of, “images from bygone days” for my homecity (and others). Just wonderful. I really appreciate the effort that is being done by the owners to preserve such marvelous collection. A wonderful compensation for that time camera I wanted to have, and a strong reminder of...
Google Maps is a wonderful joomla component, unfortunately when I tried showing my ‘international’ address as a marker on the map, it gave me a blank page (with nothing shown, not even the map). After a lot of tracing, and recognizing that the lat and long of the address are not even saved, I found the bug. commenting the...
del.icio.us was down today. It was spitting out SystemError with “raw code” into my browser. Well, this made me think about those $40M Yahoo! have paid. I guess a large user community is something that is hard to get, and apparently worth a little. My Next Plan: Come up with an idea, put something together quickly, invite many people...
Rails 1.0 is out. A similarly great project should be at a 2.0 release with such features. But Rails folks seem down to earth. Thanks guys. The release celebrations included launching a remake of ruby on rails website inspired by 37 Signals.
Keeping up with the flux in technologies and Web 2.0 should be a full time job. Really! I can hardly find the time for the piling feeds This is just in (into my eyes at least) – After Flickr –Yahoo! has bought del.iciou.us (who would’ve thought). Despite the fact that I don’t really like del.iciou.us (usability wise), yet I’m...