A gallery of 360 images, a total of 37.1MBytes, downloaded in 23.5 minutes. That’s about 1,6MByte/min, and a little under 4 seconds/image. I think that’s not too bad considering the sites providing these galleries are very busy.
Mar 102005
Mar 092005
Oliver Steele (I like the skin of his weblog!) has a very nice article about webapplications, dealing about how you should switch from server-side webapplications to client-side webapplications, thereby enabling a more rich experience on the client-side and reducing the load on the server-side (amongst other things).
One of the frameworks to create such a rich client-side applications he mentions, is Laszlo. This is an impressive piece of work. Try some of their demos. I had to reposition my jaw manually, since this gui-experience is mostly only achieved in native applications or in applications that require a huge install of libraries or components on the client-side. Laszlo does not. It requires that you have (Macromedia) Flashplayer 5 or higher and have Javascript enabled in your browser. Technically it caches about 200K on your PC, but that’s it.
While you are there, click on the link that brings you to Laszlo Mail and have a look at the screenshots. Yes, this is a webapplication.
Why do I tell you about yet another web-application framework? Well, on the one hand, you don’t need anything new on your clients. On the other hand, this is a Free and Open Sourced product.
Mar 082005
No. I should. Perhaps I should buy Joel’s latest book and read it.
Most of the time when developping I can remember what I was working on, or what bugs bugged me. But sometimes solving one bug takes a lot of time, or there’s a weekend, or something else that takes the attention from developping, I just forget about the smaller bugs. Tracking them in a database is wise.
Does anybody have suggestions? Preferably ones that are free? I’ve looked at Mantis in the past, but never got so far to actually using it. Open Source is not mandatory, but a pre. Other than that, it should run on Windows XP + Apache2.
Mar 022005
Thanks, Slashdot, for spotting. With Microsoft’s XAML on the horizon, I guess Adobe felt a little left behind, and now released Adam and Eve2 to the Open Source community. Eve (now at version 2) is a language to create Human Interfaces (GUI’s) and was first prototyped in Photoshop 5.
Adam on the other hand is (as I understand it) an event-engine tying the components you use in Eve2 together. Both libraries are available in portable C++ source format.
Feb 242005
To have an OnPaste property in a TEdit component, I wrote a little unit/package to create a descendant of TEdit. At the moment it only has OnPaste as an extra property (event), but I will extent it with OnCopy, OnCut, since they might come in handy in the future.
Feb 182005
Although still very basic and probably not in the best perl-coding-style you can think of, my 404.pl now actually redirects. I saw a lot of requests for things with “cmd.exe” in my Apache-log, so this is redirected to a Google search for “antivirus”. Also (should be done by Apache itself, but this is an exercise) /DasBlog and /simplog (blogsoftware I tested) are redirected, to this blog.
Anyone interested in the perl-script, can send me an email requesting it (it’s too embarrassing to put on the website…)
Feb 162005
If you need a picture for a presentation, or for a commercial folder, for a website you are creating, or you just need a new wallpaper, then check out Stock.xchng. It’s free. Currently they have more than 100.000 pictures online, and they are growing every day.
Here’s a sample of a button ready to be used 🙂
Feb 162005
This is interesting: Novell is going to release their Netmail product as Open Source under the name Hula Server. Primary target is Linux, while Windows, Mac OS/X and Netware will follow later.
Hula is a mail (SMTP, POP3, IMAP) and a calendar server, with an integrated listserver and anti-virus capabilities. More features here (in progress).
Since they promise carrier grade performance (serving 50.000 concurrent connected users (out of defined 200.000) on a US$4000 server does not sound too bad…) and the webinterface looks very good, I think I’ll switch. Having good things for free can never harm ones business.
Feb 162005
I finally created a favicon.ico, so the bookmark to my site can be recognized. It’s just a resized version of my company’s (RaRe IT Services) logo, so it still needs a little work. But it’s there for your viewing pleasure.
Jan 262005
Oracle released an add-in for Microsoft Excel, that enables end users to display and navigate Oracle OLAP data from within Excel, and treat it just like other Excel data. Thanks for noticing, Amis. Let’s see if we can use it to replace Discoverer…