true...if you live in a neighborhood of geeks or hackers. neither my family or friends or neighbors (even if they're on dsl or i have an unsecured wap) will have the slightest clue that they could read my email.
so yea...my email sitting on a server is less likely to be read (by someone who knows or cares about what i do) than my letter on my coffee table.
plus...it's more like...one of several million emails on a server versus one of 10 letters on my coffee table.
This is an interesting problem. FotoFlix uses a different model than "keywords"... they use labels. So "Mac" and "Macintosh" are completely different. They also use icons associated with each label. So with that system you can aggregate the properties placed on a given photo based off the name or the icon.
They're working on a way to synchronize labels between users in groups as well. That way you share not only photos but organization as well. Definitely check it out...a very cool approach.
Webapps are decent for infrequent use; they suck if you need rich functionality and need to interact with the software all the time.
what types of features did you mean?
Webapps are great for software that's rolled out and accessed by numerous machines in a heterogenous network. The benefits of thin-client far outweigh certain "features" that the browser is currently unable to provide. In rare scenarios I would suggest a standalone application. But I'm thinking projects like this are the type which have revisions written all over it. And webapps just make too much sense.
Since when if the aim of Mozilla to get people off windows and onto linux? Though not everyone here feels the same way I'm sure....I think the support for FireFox is that there's finally a great browser on and off Windows. It doesn't matter to me if my neighbor stops using windows or not.
Flickr is a really cool site. I do like their keywords and group features. We recently finished a site that's (imo) as good as or better than Flickr. Give some feedback on FotoFlix.
This site lets you create movies with some really nice templates and your own music.
Flickr and FotoFlix are by far the best sites for photo management and sharing.
but...news doesn't have to have a long term effect on a company to fluctuate stock prices. not sure what (if anything) this will do - but any news about a company effects the stock price.
That sounds like a fun project to work on. I can think of all sorts of uses for something like this. We can ensure that all olympic divers enter the water perfectly perpendicular to the surface. likewise gymnasts doing the vault will always land on their feet. Throwing spirals with a football could be automagic. Ok...nothing lifechanging there...but I'm sure someone will think of something.
I agree. Under different circumstances I would have liked to do that. Personally if a site doesn't work for me under firefox...I rarely open IE up to view it.
One of the driving factors for me was I got sick of opening IE to develop and use the site.
At the moment we're not very much targetting users with bad vision and blindness. The site itself is for photo sharing.
In time we want to have all the kinks ironed out such as certain accessibility issues. But we're focused on a soft launch targetting as many users as possible (IE users).
Define cross-platform for me...ie on mac, safari, firefox, konqueror, opera?
Welcome to the real world where some projects don't have unlimited resources and time. And your target audience is comprised of about 90% IE users. In terms of $... that becomes priority.
Ideally everyone used firefox and then you don't have to worry about it.
This isn't some complex table/div layout. It's an attempt to bring true desktop functionality to a web browser.
It's informative because my comment wasn't strictly about HTML. It was about complex user interfaces with movable elements via standard drag and drop functionality. These interfaces are much more of a pain than standard "static" layouts. Hence you rarely see them in production. Making a website behave like a desktop application with the use of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript across multiple browsers doesn't take a rocket scientist. But not much does...
Our code is tweaked for firefox/mozilla now also. But the truth be told that it still works better in IE. Not because of the code but because their rendering engine handles some things regarding dhtml better.
Never did I say this was a HTML only issue we were faced with.
Good! Think about releasing them if they are good enough
There's one I plan on doing that with. The rest already exist and are probably a little more robust. Ours are streamlined to suit our needs. I do hand them out on #php though:).
I still say 'ick'. Perl has a lot more native shell like functions and better input/output control IMHO. Still for most stuff I use a real shell script.
Yea. If I was as fluent in Perl as I am in PHP I think I could leverage it's strengths more often. It's on my list of to-dos:).
Been there. I just recently did that. It sucked. I was targetting the majority of users for our first release (IE). But in hindsight coding for Moz/Firefox and then adapting for IE would have been alot more efficient.
Gmail isn't completely crossbrowser either. Gmail in opera simply doesn't work (last I checked).
It's not necessarily the difficulty of making complex interfaces (dhtml...i.e. drag/drop). But realizing the return on time.
Spending 25 hours to let 8% (or less at times) at certain points in production just doesn't seem to be worth it.
However, kudos to those that do go the extra mile. I've been working on a project that had an IE only interface for about a year and a half. About 2 weeks ago we got it working in Mozilla/Firefox. Almost working in safari/konqueror. But honestly...the latter isn't worth our time at the moment.
At my work we develop alot in PHP. Me and another co-worker started creating a repository of classes which we use like there's no tomorrow. We've gotten a really good system of consistent coding style. Though I can still tell what lines he's written and I've written. But they're formatted the same so a third developer can come in and understand it all as well.
As far as PHP for shell scripting. I use it when I just need something quick. I'll sometimes go back and change it to a different language when I have time.
To make a long post short...I'm estatic about php5 being released!
I agree. But hopefully that's the next step...to have something to resolve dependencies cross platform. I know that when I first started using linux that dependency hell was my main reason to revert back to windows. Once you get used to it...it's ok. But for newbies...that would be really sweet to have a uniform package system w/ dependency resolution.
Yea...he wouldn't have had any time to entertain his curiosities. He would probably be some regular engineer that noone outside of his town ever heard of.
Honestly though...I don't think formal education would have done him any good. He seems to be doing just fine for himself...not sure what more some schooling would have done.
$4,000 seems a bit expensive. I'm not seeing the true benefit of having a "Certified Hacker Certificate"? I think the days of getting a job out of highschool because you took a hacking course are over (if they ever existed in the first place).
Right now the University of Cincinnati is about $8,000 for a year. And I thought that was expensive.
Seems trendy to me...I just don't see hacker courses having much of a true impact on security.
But kudos to whoever is making money off the idea. Wish I would have thought of it.
It is...minus the random crashing on certain websites. It's stable enough for me to use as my primary browser...but it'll be nice once they feel it's stable enough to no longer be a preview release.
It's annoying. IE crashes on me at times as well. I would try opera but I hate always switching. I'm waiting for Firefox to become stable:)...hopefully a month or so down the road.
At work I still have to use IE though as our web applications (used internally) are only guaranteed to work on IE. So we don't worry about cross browser compliance at all. Tsk tsk...but all the developers use Firefox to test anyway...and whatever works on firefox almost always works on IE...so that's not a big deal. I wish it was true the other way around.
True. After my experience I no longer buy DRM'ed cds. I do however wish the artist would provide alternative ways for their fans to support them. If it's "buy our DRM'ed cd or nothing"...I'll continue to look at soulseek.
It's unfortunate that it's come to this. Artists don't have as much say in wether or not DRM is on their cds or not. Their recording label and the RIAA control alot of that.
The last cd I had which was copy-protected wouldn't even play in my cdrom. And of course I couldn't return it. I was pissed...but what can ya do?
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true...if you live in a neighborhood of geeks or hackers. neither my family or friends or neighbors (even if they're on dsl or i have an unsecured wap) will have the slightest clue that they could read my email. so yea...my email sitting on a server is less likely to be read (by someone who knows or cares about what i do) than my letter on my coffee table. plus...it's more like...one of several million emails on a server versus one of 10 letters on my coffee table.
This is an interesting problem. FotoFlix uses a different model than "keywords" ... they use labels. So "Mac" and "Macintosh" are completely different. They also use icons associated with each label. So with that system you can aggregate the properties placed on a given photo based off the name or the icon.
They're working on a way to synchronize labels between users in groups as well. That way you share not only photos but organization as well. Definitely check it out...a very cool approach.
FotoFlix
Webapps are great for software that's rolled out and accessed by numerous machines in a heterogenous network. The benefits of thin-client far outweigh certain "features" that the browser is currently unable to provide. In rare scenarios I would suggest a standalone application. But I'm thinking projects like this are the type which have revisions written all over it. And webapps just make too much sense.
Since when if the aim of Mozilla to get people off windows and onto linux? Though not everyone here feels the same way I'm sure....I think the support for FireFox is that there's finally a great browser on and off Windows. It doesn't matter to me if my neighbor stops using windows or not.
Flickr is a really cool site. I do like their keywords and group features. We recently finished a site that's (imo) as good as or better than Flickr. Give some feedback on FotoFlix.
This site lets you create movies with some really nice templates and your own music.
Flickr and FotoFlix are by far the best sites for photo management and sharing.
shopping carts cost $100???
but...news doesn't have to have a long term effect on a company to fluctuate stock prices. not sure what (if anything) this will do - but any news about a company effects the stock price.
Mostly I just like saying 'bellyflop' though. Its a fun word, 'bellyflop'. Try it, 'bellyflop'.
bellyflop...you're right! bellyflop!
heh. a minor tweak to those equations and we can ensure a parallel entry into the water! even more uses!
That sounds like a fun project to work on. I can think of all sorts of uses for something like this. We can ensure that all olympic divers enter the water perfectly perpendicular to the surface. likewise gymnasts doing the vault will always land on their feet. Throwing spirals with a football could be automagic. Ok...nothing lifechanging there...but I'm sure someone will think of something.
I agree. Under different circumstances I would have liked to do that. Personally if a site doesn't work for me under firefox...I rarely open IE up to view it.
One of the driving factors for me was I got sick of opening IE to develop and use the site.
At the moment we're not very much targetting users with bad vision and blindness. The site itself is for photo sharing.
In time we want to have all the kinks ironed out such as certain accessibility issues. But we're focused on a soft launch targetting as many users as possible (IE users).
There's just not enough time in the day damnit!
Define cross-platform for me...ie on mac, safari, firefox, konqueror, opera?
... that becomes priority.
Welcome to the real world where some projects don't have unlimited resources and time. And your target audience is comprised of about 90% IE users. In terms of $
Ideally everyone used firefox and then you don't have to worry about it.
This isn't some complex table/div layout. It's an attempt to bring true desktop functionality to a web browser.
It's informative because my comment wasn't strictly about HTML. It was about complex user interfaces with movable elements via standard drag and drop functionality. These interfaces are much more of a pain than standard "static" layouts. Hence you rarely see them in production. Making a website behave like a desktop application with the use of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript across multiple browsers doesn't take a rocket scientist. But not much does...
Our code is tweaked for firefox/mozilla now also. But the truth be told that it still works better in IE. Not because of the code but because their rendering engine handles some things regarding dhtml better.
Never did I say this was a HTML only issue we were faced with.
Good! Think about releasing them if they are good enough
:).
:).
There's one I plan on doing that with. The rest already exist and are probably a little more robust. Ours are streamlined to suit our needs. I do hand them out on #php though
I still say 'ick'. Perl has a lot more native shell like functions and better input/output control IMHO. Still for most stuff I use a real shell script.
Yea. If I was as fluent in Perl as I am in PHP I think I could leverage it's strengths more often. It's on my list of to-dos
Been there. I just recently did that. It sucked. I was targetting the majority of users for our first release (IE). But in hindsight coding for Moz/Firefox and then adapting for IE would have been alot more efficient.
Lesson Learned.
Gmail isn't completely crossbrowser either. Gmail in opera simply doesn't work (last I checked).
It's not necessarily the difficulty of making complex interfaces (dhtml...i.e. drag/drop). But realizing the return on time.
Spending 25 hours to let 8% (or less at times) at certain points in production just doesn't seem to be worth it.
However, kudos to those that do go the extra mile. I've been working on a project that had an IE only interface for about a year and a half. About 2 weeks ago we got it working in Mozilla/Firefox. Almost working in safari/konqueror. But honestly...the latter isn't worth our time at the moment.
At my work we develop alot in PHP. Me and another co-worker started creating a repository of classes which we use like there's no tomorrow. We've gotten a really good system of consistent coding style. Though I can still tell what lines he's written and I've written. But they're formatted the same so a third developer can come in and understand it all as well.
As far as PHP for shell scripting. I use it when I just need something quick. I'll sometimes go back and change it to a different language when I have time.
To make a long post short...I'm estatic about php5 being released!
I agree. But hopefully that's the next step...to have something to resolve dependencies cross platform. I know that when I first started using linux that dependency hell was my main reason to revert back to windows. Once you get used to it...it's ok. But for newbies...that would be really sweet to have a uniform package system w/ dependency resolution.
Yea...he wouldn't have had any time to entertain his curiosities. He would probably be some regular engineer that noone outside of his town ever heard of.
Honestly though...I don't think formal education would have done him any good. He seems to be doing just fine for himself...not sure what more some schooling would have done.
FYI - I have a pantent on "portable IP addresses". I'm going to be rich!
This won't make it too far due to the technical implications it would have. That was obviously not considered or understood in this decision.
Kudos to whoever that guy is that tried to take an IP address with him. Clever thinking!
$4,000 seems a bit expensive. I'm not seeing the true benefit of having a "Certified Hacker Certificate"? I think the days of getting a job out of highschool because you took a hacking course are over (if they ever existed in the first place).
Right now the University of Cincinnati is about $8,000 for a year. And I thought that was expensive.
Seems trendy to me...I just don't see hacker courses having much of a true impact on security.
But kudos to whoever is making money off the idea. Wish I would have thought of it.
It is...minus the random crashing on certain websites. It's stable enough for me to use as my primary browser...but it'll be nice once they feel it's stable enough to no longer be a preview release.
It's annoying. IE crashes on me at times as well. I would try opera but I hate always switching. I'm waiting for Firefox to become stable :)...hopefully a month or so down the road.
At work I still have to use IE though as our web applications (used internally) are only guaranteed to work on IE. So we don't worry about cross browser compliance at all. Tsk tsk...but all the developers use Firefox to test anyway...and whatever works on firefox almost always works on IE...so that's not a big deal. I wish it was true the other way around.
True. After my experience I no longer buy DRM'ed cds. I do however wish the artist would provide alternative ways for their fans to support them. If it's "buy our DRM'ed cd or nothing"...I'll continue to look at soulseek.
It's unfortunate that it's come to this. Artists don't have as much say in wether or not DRM is on their cds or not. Their recording label and the RIAA control alot of that.
The last cd I had which was copy-protected wouldn't even play in my cdrom. And of course I couldn't return it. I was pissed...but what can ya do?