This week saw the release of Google Chrome, Google’s new feature-rich browser based on WebKit and Firefox components. It has been met with a mixed response and has also raised some interesting thoughts/issues/discussions…
See for example the outcry about the extreme licensing “liberties†(http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/does_google_have_rights_to_all.php) that Google is taking in their terms and conditions […]
Off we go! Another year of discovery, excitement, change and quite possibly some daunting challenges awaits our brave developer hearts once more. As we walk bleary-eyed to our desks again, fresh smells of coffee filling the office, it’s an excellent time to refocus – amongst other things – on our technical goals; how we’d like […]
Have a read: Google is massively invading Privacy - IOL (today)
Strong language, and we have heard it before, but we have seen that where there is smoke there is a fire… (yes that link is ironic). I think in years to come, Google’s (and Wikipedia’s) dominance will certainly become a major issue for various reasons.
Your thoughts? […]
South African online buyers can now receive quotes in Rands and make credit card purchases through PayPal.
“Just the other day, I found out that South Africans can now get PayPal accounts and link them to a local credit card. When you buy something, the amount is deducted from your credit card and the system even […]
In the last two weeks my development team has made a few new discoveries in the area .Net ORM tools. The new additions are Sub Sonic (free) and Entity Spaces (paid - $80).
We are in the process of evaluating and prototyping both of these tools for a enterprise sized web-application that we are about to […]
Do you need the capability to run full text based searches on your database? The Ruby on Rails plugin ‘acts_as_ferret’ will enable your application to do this.
‘acts_as_ferret’ is a Rails port to Ferret, the Ruby port of Lucene. It is an ActiveRecord mixin which adds full text searching capabilities to any Rails model.
It also caters […]
For the last couple of years we’ve been living in a world where selling properties is all about exposure. Be it via word of mouth, billboards, brochures or the web. As Africa is steadily following others in relatively affordable broadband solutions, the web has taken the lead. If you don’t have your property on […]
Trends on the Web come and go at a frightening rate. This rate of change is due largely to the nature of freedom that exists around web ‘culture’. There is no one person or company who controls it (Google hasn’t got there yet…), and anybody is free to contribute anything to the online community. At […]
Introduction
First up, I have to mention that my first experience in the programming world was with C# .NET. I thought that I would never move to another language never mind leaving the .NET framework.I started working at WhiteWallWeb and the oddity language PHP4. Coming from a completely object oriented approach to the scripting PHP4 pattern […]
In the inaugural WWW X-Box Championship, it was Dan Nuttall (company architect) who outplayed all challengers in FIFA 2007. They came from all corners of the office - enthusiastic developers; cunning project managers, the ever competitive marketing manager and the big-talking G.M., even the MD himself (who engaged in private training sessions at home) had […]
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