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FTP is an insecure, outdated and overall horrible protocol that you should never use yourself.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...

A very insightful and fun presentation that is not boring, from people who really get it: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/soa-without-esb Awesome job! We admire these guys for a reason, indeed.

Really nice and useful tool: http://www.pixelatedsoftware.com/products/pixelstick/ Tools like this one are plenty, but this particular one has a great user-interface. Better than any other free one, I have seen.

Web 1.0: Global reach to content publishing. Web 2.0: Web becomes a two-way publishing avenue: readers contribute content and play central role. Web 3.0: Let’s try make sense of the enormous content published. Smart aggregation becomes key. It looks like the reality in which content aggregation plays equally important role, compared to publishing, is arriving...

Microsoft has recently awarded a $300M account to a star ad-agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky. Bogusky is like a new icon of the Ad industry, having under the belt such successful projects as Mini Cooper campaign, the revival of Burger King brand image and many others. Of course, the hypocrisy of the story is that...

We’ve blogged about hardcore Drupal Form Manipulations using CCK Node Types and hooks. If it is part of your module (as it should) you need to install CCK type during module setup. In the .install file of that module you can import CCK definition with a code like: function ourmodule_CCK_install() { $modulepath = drupal_get_path ('module',...

Some extremely exciting news in the world of Agile and Dynamic languages: Passenger (mod_rails) released and the popular, mass-hosting provider DreamHost is now offering mod_rails hosting. A legendary, rock-solid MediaTemple hosting is now offering Django GridContainers for scalable deployments. The way I am cut-out, I get in physical pain if I don’t have a root...

Via: AgileApproach Blog Drupal Form-Handling support goes far beyond just the documented part of so-called Forms API. You can do pretty much anything with forms in Drupal and you can use/display the forms anywhere. Here is an example. Let’s assume we want to construct a custom node type with custom fields, using CCK. Then we...

Disclaimer: the problem and the solution are not unique to LAMPP. If you have a MYSQL installation with uncommon paths, you will get a similar problem and you can solve it in a similar way. Just make sure you insert correct paths in the newly created .conf file for the LD (see below). If, for...

Very interesting: Twitter is abandoning Ruby on Rails due to claimed scalability problems:\ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/01/twitter-said-to-be-abandoning-ruby-on-rails/

MacBook Air is undoubtedly one of the most revolutionary gadgets released lately. Could even be the most revolutionary one, if not iPhone. Hold! Before you attack my statement about “undoubtedly”, keep in mind - I don’t mean it’s something you should jump on buying. All we mean is that it’s a revolutionary design (with outstanding...