Archive for February, 2009

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Mobile Browser w/Flash

www.skyfire.com
This browser supports flash for the Windows Mobile and Symbian Phones.  I installed it last week and have been watching hulu.com on the bus since.
The time it took to go to the site, download the app and be watching the Family Guy was less than 5 minutes.
Army’s Virtual World takes some time to load but [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Flash, WindowsMobile by steve

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

safari 4 released

Safari i 4 is now in open beta and almost ready for release
Introducing Safari 4 Beta. Take a look at the remarkable new features of the world’s fastest web browser.
Download Safari

No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by matthew

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

quick introduction to LINQ

No more stored procedures and manipulation XML doc/dataset with nested loops, LINQ provides strongly typed resultset with universal data query syntax for all types datasources.
The overview is spot on, and there are links to “5 minute introduction of LINQ to SQL/Objects/XML” if you want to explore a little bit deeper.
http://www.hookedonlinq.com/LINQOverview.ashx

No Comments » - Posted in Microsoft .Net by Danny

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Awsome article about being an expert

Being an expert isn’t telling other people what you know. It’s understanding what questions to ask, and flexibly applying your knowledge to the specific situation at hand. Being an expert means providing sensible, highly contextual direction.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001226.html

1 Comment » - Posted in Technology by craig

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Facebook comment

Detailed on the Facebook Developers blog and wiki, the company’s new Comment Box allows any website or blog owner to use Facebook for their comment system. A snippet of code can be added to static pages, or CMSes like Movable Type and WordPress via plug-ins, to embed the Comment Box. Whether visitors have a Facebook [...]

No Comments » - Posted in facebook by craig

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Palm - overview of webOS

Yay, some more details on the new PalmOS webOS. You can download the first chapter of an O’Reilly currently being written. I’m intrigued.
You can think of webOS applications as native applications, but built from the same standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript that you’d use to develop web applications. Palm has extended the standard web development [...]

No Comments » - Posted in webOS by craig

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

NyTimes article skimmer

Nice way to browse the morning news.
Ny Times Article Skimmer

1 Comment » - Posted in HTML, javascript by jon

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Web Security

Following on from Andy’s email I just happen to come across these two articles. One details XSS attacks the other talks about Cross-Site Request Forgeries (CSRF) which i hadn’t really heard about before.
Read these everyone.
Cross-Site Request Forgeries and You
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001171.html
Protecting Your Cookies: HttpOnly
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001167.html
Andy’s docs are here:-
Tech\Application Security

1 Comment » - Posted in security by craig

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Gmail’s New ‘Add Location’ Feature Is Too Honest

Nice Wired blog entry about Gmail’s location aware signature function.  Good location-based article links at the end.

No Comments » - Posted in google apps by AJ