Nice trick: add “&fmt=18” to a YouTube URL and you can enjoy stereo audio and better-quality picture (requires more bandwidth, of course). Have fun

DrupalCon DC was announced today on Drupal.org. We’ve known it for a while, to be honest, but now it’s official! DrupalCon DC will be held March 4-7, 2009 and registration will be opening next week. The importance of DrupalCon DC is hard to overestimate. Washington, DC is home to many non-profits and PR Agencies, the...

A popular joke of the 21st century has been that the Web is “ruled” by teenagers. That saying may be a joke, but the truth is: we live in an era in which a self-organized group of college students, without any funding can take on global organizations like HSBC. How come? Because large organizations are...

Software engineering has introduced the paradigm of the separation of the View (visual representation) from the Model (business logic) long time ago. In the realm of the Web, this principle was re-emphasized. In the late ’90s and early 2000s the separation was used to accommodate for differences between physical mediums that a web-page could be...

I woke up feeling a little prophet-ish this morning. I would bet you money, but it is illegal, so I am just going to say: I know what the next big service thing from Google should will be! Ready? It’s a free SMS gateway that allows sending SMS messages through an open API. Now think...

Interesting choice of graphics from Joomla: Check this: And then look at the striking similarity of the World Bank logo: Could have come up with something more original.

Cooliris is one of these new gadgets that sound cool in somebody’s blog review, but do not live up to an expectation when actually used. Let alone that it is not nearly as useful as it claims to be, Cooliris has been reported to significantly slow down Safari on Macs. Specifically - when viewing FLASH...

If you work in a noisy office (or home) environment and can’t concentrate, this is a must-have Mac app: http://www.blackholemedia.com/noise/

Quick Note: the Administration Menu module in Drupal seems to have some weird bug in ver. 5.2.5 which causes menu items listing to disappear on admin/build/menu configuration page. Solution: disable and remove Administration Menu module, download 5.2.6 or later version, install that one. If the problem persists run “menu_rebuild();” from hook_init() of any module or...

Google released to open-source its “language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible way of serializing structured data for use in communications protocols, data storage, and more”: Protocol Buffers. Google claims it’s like XML, but better mostly because: “[Protocol Buffers] are 3 to 10 times smaller, and 20 to 100 times faster”. My feelings about this news are mixed. Like...

Geeks among us often wonder what a website is built with. Is it a Java/J2EE home-cooked mess? Is it a .Net nightmare? Or is it a common CMS installation styled to the extent of not being recognizable (i.e. not being ugly, anymore :) )? Most 5-minute drupal installations will respond to requests like http://example.com/user/ and...

Firefox 3.0 web-browser has been released! The new browser has much slicker (imho) user-interface, feels faster/lighter and is just plain awesome! For FireBug users (i.e. any web-developer and designer?) out there: you need to manually download a new major release version, 1.2.0b4. Automated update of 1.05 won’t work. Don’t know about Windows machines, but on...

The intro/description from IBM’s new Project Zero caught my eye right away: “We’re building an agile development environment leveraging scripting runtimes such as Groovy and PHP, and optimized for producing REST-style services, integration, mash-ups, and rich Web interfaces. This is the community development site for IBM WebSphere sMash, offering users a chance to interact with...

FTP is an insecure, outdated and overall horrible protocol that you should never use yourself. Yet, sometimes you want to allow some people to upload files to your server, but you don’t want them poking around your server or users demand FTP because they are used to it and have no idea what SSH/SFTP is....

David E. Williams, from the Health Business Blog recorded an interesting podcast with Dr. Jason Bhan, co-founder of Ozmosis. Ozmosis is a social network for practicing physicians to share knowledge and communicate. Revolutionary in its nature, Ozmosis uses the rich experience of existing social networks, plus a proprietary “trust” technology, to create a breakthrough environment...