Well, to keep a long story short: it doesn’t. While I am not a fan of myspace (pick a reason): it’s an ugly bitch it doesn’t adhere to web standards it’s badly designed technically it has a horrible interface all morons and attention seekers seem to be perpetually drawn to it I could go on [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Coding & Web Development'
Myspace, how does this piece of shit website actually work and scale?
January 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Coding & Web Development
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YouOS – Truly bringing the desktop to the web
July 24th, 2006 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Cool Geeky Stuff, Internet
Those guys from MIT have done it again. YouOS is an amazingly cool web OS that actually seems to work properly! Here’s what they say about it: YouOS is a web operating system that lets you run diverse applications within a web browser. Small applications like sticky notes or clocks. Large applications like word processing, [...]
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Google Releases Web Stats Package
November 14th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Coding & Web Development, Google
In what should be of interest to a lot of webmasters (including this one), Google’s newest foray into world domination is Google Analytics, a web stats package: Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You’ll be able to focus your [...]
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Grand Theft Auto III Ported To NES!
November 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Video Games
It seems some incredibly cool guy has ported GTA 3 to the NES: “Grand Theftendo”:http://www.grandtheftendo.com/ is a port of Grand Theft Auto III for the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It is Grand Theft Auto III running on an 8 bit, 256×240 resolution, 2 bit colour x 2 bit palette, 1.79 Mhz system, written entirely [...]
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Worst Bugs In Computer History
November 9th, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Security
Wired has made a list of what they think are some of the worst bugs in computer history: Last month automaker Toyota announced a recall of 160,000 of its Prius hybrid vehicles following reports of vehicle warning lights illuminating for no reason, and cars’ gasoline engines stalling unexpectedly. But unlike the large-scale auto recalls of [...]
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Cross Platform Gaming Development To Be Tough
November 9th, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Video Games
Arstechnica has an excellent editorial piece on how developing for multiple plaforms is becoming more and more difficult and give their view on where the future is taking us: The gaming industry has come a long way since its humble beginnings more than thirty years ago. From a time when people were thrilled to see [...]
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The Coming Of The Poker Bots
August 28th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Coding & Web Development, Crime, Internet, Video Games
Wired has a piece on how people are using poker bots to make easy money: It’s late one Wednesday afternoon, and CptPokr is logged on to PartyPoker.com and ready to play. Onscreen, the captain exudes a certain brash charisma – broad shoulders, immaculate brown hair, restless animatronic eyes. He looks like he should be playing [...]
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Great Programmers Equals Great Products
August 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Coding & Web Development
This is what Joel writes. Excerpt: In March, 2000, I launched this site with the shaky claim that most people are wrong in thinking you need an idea to make a successful software company: The common belief is that when you’re building a software company, the goal is to find a neat idea that solves [...]
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Differences Between Internet Explorer & Mozilla
July 27th, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Firefox & Thunderbird, Microsoft
IBM Developerworks has an interesting article on the differences between IE and Mozilla, and things you should take note of when porting/creating web apps: Ever have trouble getting your Internet Explorer-specific Web applications to work with Mozilla? This article covers common issues associated with migrating applications to the open source Mozilla-based browser. You’ll first learn [...]
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Teach Your Bayesian Filter To Play Chess
July 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Cool Geeky Stuff
Someone with a lot of imagination has made a cool hack in which he trained a Bayesian filter to analyze old chess games and from that play chess! An excerpt: Many people these days depend on Bayesian filters to protect them from the ever present email scourge that is spam. Unlike older technologies, these programs’ [...]
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