Tag: web

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  • Online rankings: Why so hidden?

    Posted on April 10, 2008 at 23:02 +0200 Tagged with , , , , , ,

    The more I play games like Super Stardust HD and Geometry Wars I have to wonder what really brings me back playing those quite simple games (compared to games like for instance Resistance or Halo 3) again and again. Sure, they are fun, but I guess another highly motivating aspect is the hunt for a new highscore.

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  • First taste of Pylons: Rocky

    Posted on Oct. 12, 2007 at 19:56 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    For the last week or so I've been messing a little bit around with Pylons during my limited free time in order to be of at least of some help for Martin with his new project. I'm not really sure how I should feel about this framework, though.

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  • Django now with more Unicode

    Posted on July 5, 2007 at 11:57 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    Yesterday Malcolm Tredinnick merged the so called unicode-branch of Django into the main branch and with this made all Unicode goodness available to those people sticking to the primary development tree of Django.

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  • Pagination in Articles is Evil

    Posted on April 23, 2007 at 10:35 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    Mike Davidson has a nice article on his blog about the evil of pagination for articles. As he said, it's a cheap way of getting more ad-clicks per article that doesn't really benefit the actual user, although quite a few content providers will probably state, that they only did it to make reading easier for the user.

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  • CLEAN iconset

    Posted on Jan. 4, 2007 at 23:15 +0100 Tagged with , ,

    For those of you who prefer the light-gray way of webdesign has Manuela Hoffmann something again. A new icon set to be precise. Nice and "CLEAN" :)

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  • jQuery 1.0.2 released

    Posted on Oct. 10, 2006 at 11:01 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    John Resig just released a new version of his JavaScript library/framework jQuery. This release (version 1.0.2) seems to be focused on cross-browser related problems.

    jQuery is a light-weight JavaScript library which is in many parts similiar to the heavyweighters such as Prototype and aims to help developers with tasks such as dynamic style-changes, AJAX etc. In the recent months jQuery seems to have gained a lot of popularity in the Drupal world and is planned to be included in the next release of the CMS (5.0.0)

    [via pixelgraphix.de]

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  • Sometimes expire fields in cookies just suck

    Posted on June 11, 2006 at 00:30 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    If you can read this, I just made my first blog post using my little commandline tool for blogging ;) But I can tell you, writing this was just a pain. Ok, not at first where I could rely on normal XMLRPC APIs like the metaWeblog API. But then I wanted to create new categories on the fly and this is exactly what none of the available APIs for WordPress seems to be able to do. The quite obvious solution for this is simply do a POST call on the wp-login.php to receive the cookies for an admin and then continue with creating categories this way.

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  • RSS Readers: The half-final result

    Posted on Jan. 17, 2006 at 19:43 +0100 Tagged with , ,

    After about 40minutes of telephone support with Apple Care I finally made a decision what RSS reader I want to buy. For those of you who haven't read any of my previous posts about this topic or simply simply are too lazy to do so ;) here a short listing of all my alternatives:

    • NewsFire: Shareware (16EUR), a very simple and fast interface, small problems with exporting and importing feeds that I can live with, the best sidebar I've ever seen.
    • NetNewsWire: Shareware (25USD), offers everything you'd normally want and need and more. Also very fast.
    • ViennaRSS: OpenSource (free), features you'd expect. It's more or less like a Liferea for MacOSX... Maferea :P
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  • Technorati Keywords

    Posted on Jan. 16, 2006 at 18:08 +0100 Tagged with ,

    A couple of months ago Technorati added a new tool to their search service: The Blogfinder. It is basically a directory service more or less comparable to the tagging service but for whole weblogs instead of single posts. Back then I wanted to use it right away to increase the traffic here, but somehow (as it often happens to me in the recent months) I forgot to do it.

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  • Skipping Ad-pages on 1up.com with PithHelmet

    Posted on Jan. 15, 2006 at 21:13 +0100 Tagged with , ,

    Honestly I couldn't visit sites like 1up.com anymore without tools like PithHelmet thanks to the thousands of Flash ads that nearly kill basically any browser out there. Still, classic ad-blocking can't really help you with dedicated ad-pages that 1up.com triggers every now and then. But there's a quite easy way to get around this using PithHelmet's MacheteScript feature. This simple Perl script parses the passed page and adds a ne reload element into it if the page looks like one of the ad-pages: 

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
   while(<>){
           if(/CONTINUE TO 1UP/){
                   print '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0"/>';
           }
           print $_;
   }

    (Sure, this is not really a valid approach, but it works.)

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