Google Wave Puts Pressure On Microsoft By Dropping Support For IE

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Finally more and more tech companies and developers are dropping support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser.  Latest to stab the knife in is Google’s Wave.  According to Google:

Google Wave runs in most browsers, with the notable exception of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE). Users of IE will have to download a plug-in, known as Chrome Frame to use the application.

Microsoft does not recommend installing this plug-in, claiming it compromises security.

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Attack Of The Killer King Cobra Near Alor Setar

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

The Star newspaper today reported on a King Cobra attack near Malaysia’s Northern city of Alor Setar.  Although the report did not identify the snake it is obvious from the photo that it is a King Cobra!  The King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is the world’s longest venomous snake, with a length that can be as large as about 6 m (20 ft).

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Free Live Premiership Football Scores Widget For Your Web Site Or Blog

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Want to show free live premiership football scores on your web site or blog?  Simply copy and paste the HTML code below!

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New Variation Of The Facebook “Immigration Scam”

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

You may of recently heard of a series of serious scams causing havoc with Facebook and other social networking site users.  The gist of it is that “hackers” can get into your friends or relatives Facebook accounts -  most likely by exploiting a weak password – then sending fake pleas for help and essentially money to people on the hacked accounts friend list.

Naturally with the average human being stupid, statistically lots of people will fall for this scam.  The obvious thing to do if you receive a message begging for help from a friend or relative is to confirm the authenticity of the situation.  There will even be tell tale give away signs if it is scam such as poor English if your buddy is supposed to be fluent or suspicious circumstances such as a request for an overly large amount of money or imply stories that don’t add up.

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Try The Opera Web Browser On Ubuntu Linux Because It Has Great Ubuntu Support

Friday, September 25th, 2009

When you get Ubuntu you get firefox as a default web browser and if somehow you don’t – perhaps if you are using a varied flavor of Ubuntu you can get it in a few seconds using apt or your favorite package management program.

But… How about when you go to the Firefox website to download a copy of Firefox?  This is the screen you will get…

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KDE: Use KLinkStatus (KDEWebDev) To Spider A Site To Check For Broken Links

Friday, September 25th, 2009

KLinkStatus is a handy web spider program is part of the KDEWebDev suite of applications.  KDELinkStatus can recursively follow and check links (both internal and external) in a web site.

Once the spidering is completed you can then export the results as an HTML report so that broken links can easily be spotted and then fixed.

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A Beyonce Present For PAS Youth

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Apparently PAS youth vice-chief Sabki Yusof said “We are not against entertainment as long as it’s within the framework of our culture and our religion” and “We are against Western sexy performances. We don’t think our people need that”.

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Esther Chik Still Wants Her Shih Tzus Back

Friday, September 25th, 2009

A strange but true story appeared on the front page of Malaysia’s Star newspaper today instead of more news worthy headlines (no change there then).  Esther Chik – a lawyer in her 30′s was a victim of a burglary over two months ago and her two Shih Tzu dogs were stolen.  Not a big deal really.

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List Of Classic Delicious British Food

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Here is a mouth watering list of some of the most famous and delicious British food!  Warning!  Don’t read this blog post if you don’t have a full stomach!

Cooked Meals:

Sunday Roast Dinner.  Traditionally includes roast potatoes accompanying a roasted joint of meat such as roast beef, lamb, or a roast chicken and assorted vegetables, themselves generally roasted or boiled and served with a gravy. Yorkshire pudding and gravy is now often served as an accompaniment to the main course.

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Web Browser Layout Engines Explained

Monday, September 21st, 2009

When developing websites an increasing area of complexity and challenges is cross browser compatibilty.  Different web browsers (and other programs that display web content such as email clients) use different layout engines.

Yes it is a minefield!   Luckily to some degree web standards are followed closely by the layout engines – some more so than others.  The layout engines that follow web standards poorly tend to be the most troublesome for the developer (Internet Explorer).

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