January 27, 2010
You don’t need to be an expert in the technology industry to be able to see where the trend is heading: the cloud. More and more web-based applications are available, substituting their desktop-based counterpart. While this is a good idea, the trend brings up some inconveniences. One of them is the unavoidable clutter of the [...]
December 27, 2009
Over the summer the company I worked for sent me to a “Java Programming Boot Camp” held by Sun Microsystems in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The expectation for that course was that it would make me an entry level Java developer–after all, this was Sun’s general summary of the course. What I learned that summer was that you [...]
October 11, 2009
Facebook is pretty awesome, but it is far from perfect. More than once, I’ve heard complaints about some of Facebook’s technical aspects. Sadly, Facebook isn’t open-sourced, so users can’t change anything themselves – or can they? By using simple pieces of Javascript code, or by applying Firefox Greasemonkey userscripts, users can change the appearance and [...]
February 23, 2009
Most programmers are not just desktop programmers, web programmers or scripting gurus – they are often all of the above. Over time, most software developers find that it’s much easier to re-use code components than it is to recreate the wheel every time you write an application. Over time, these developers typically archive a library of [...]
July 27, 2008
There might be several reasons why a reader would want to be able to convert a web page to PDF, such as: to share with a non-online friend, to be able to email it or to put it into a PDF device to read later; while still retaining the original form of the page. That’s [...]
June 11, 2008
“Only two lines of javascript and what a difference it makes!” That was my conclusion after trying out NicEdit on my personal blog – a script that puts RichText WYSIWYG functionality into a blog’s comment section. As any blogger will tell you, the comments section of the blog is pretty much the life-blood of the [...]
