Highly Efficient Rosetta or Darn Slow Photoshop? When Apple introduced Intel-based Macs, a year ago, it provided comprehensive migration support, as well. Free compiler (program “translating” human-readable source code of programs into “machine code”) shipping with OS X is able to produce so-called Universal Binary - code that both old and new processors can understand....

Microsoft Silverlight, pet-named “Flash killer” by the Web 2.0 community, replicates many of the features of Macromedia Flash technology. Silverlight was first unveiled at the NAB Show, in early 2006, but it is only recently that it has gotten increasing spotlight from the industry. Somewhat intriguing, yet quite telling was that Microsoft featured Silverlight at...

Linus Torvalds recently gave a presentation at Google about a new source-control management (SCM) system he has authored and that is being actively maintained by an open-source community - Git. If you are a happy user of Subversion, you should take a break right now and watch the video (if you are a “happy” user...

Joost, the revolutionary online TV service, is the new craze on the Web. However, if you have been using it extensively, you may have noticed that you are running out of disk space. Ouch! Not sure how it behaves on Windows, but on OS X, Joost demonstrated an early bug - it “eats” disk space...

Eclipse is an IDE of choice for many. It’s been very popular among Java developers for a long time, but lately it is getting some traction in the PHP world, as well. A big contributor has been the absolutely fabulous Eclipse PDT project that makes Eclipse PHP-intelligent. Whether you are developing in Java, PHP or...

The dominant question popping up in a pragmatist’s mind, observing the Web 2.0, is: how come people get so much free time in an increasingly hyper world? With the amount of blogging going on, either half of the literate population is procrastinating or the sales of Red Bull has to be booming. Either way, even...

If you are a Web 2.0 enthusiast you, probably, have already heard of Joost - the Web 2.0 version of the future of the television. Joost is in its beta phase. It is free but invitation-only. To use the service, somebody has to invite you. I have some invitations available and you can get them...

Unless you’ve lived in a cave in a desert, for the past three years or so, you must have noticed the social revolution that took over the Internet. Some call it “blogging craze”, yet others prefer to more fashionably number-version the Web into “2.0”. Either way, the reality is that mass-services like MySpace and YouTube...

As employees all over the country keep getting fired over their MySpace profiles, one man is trying to get “hired” as nothing less than the President of the United States of America. That’s right, Dennis Kucinich, has a professionally designed MySpace profile with all the bells and whistles that, typically, only music bands or TV...

XAMPP is an absolutely wonderful, packaged, self-contained distribution of apache, mysql, php and tons of hard-to-install php extensions. Not only does it make sysadmin’s life easier, by solving 99.9% of LAMP problems out-of-the-box, but it also allows PHP-vendors to create packaged distributions of complex systems. However, even with a long list of packaged extensions, obviously...

Task: allow unrestricted access to a virtual host from a range of IPs, require MySQL-based authentication from any other IP. Solution: Database Table: use auth; CREATE TABLE `user` ( `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, `fullname` varchar(127) NOT NULL default '', `email` varchar(127) NOT NULL default '', `country` varchar(64) NOT NULL default '', `userid` varchar(32)...

SOA is probably the most overused/abused buzzword. I would say even more so than AJAX - which is scary, really. It’s also funny how “SOA experts” can make the subject even blurrier. That was the subject of the conversation between Doug and I, recently that I am quoting below. We were discussing a recent SOA...

There are tons of wonderful Firefox add-ons. In fact, that is what makes this browser stand out among other browsers. However, be cautious to install every other extension you think may be cool. Firefox performance can significantly degrade when you install many/random extensions. Anyway, for what it’s worth, following is the list of Firefox extensions...

Unforgivable: I’ve been so busy lately that almost forgot to post - April DC Drupal meetup is Today! Please, note that the meetup place has changed and read more details about it on Eric’s Blog See you there!

As far as Enterprise Architects are concerned, there is no other, single characteristic of a software system more important than the performance and scalability. Or, at least - there should not be. Sadly, in reality, performance is often an afterthought. Inexperienced development teams look at it in disdain and refuse to “waste” time on performance...