Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Akregator icon in KDE 4 land, by Oxygen

Another work by the Oxygen team

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New Konqueror web browser icon by Oxygen Team

Konqueror, KDE web browser get a new icon in Oxygen style. Check it out.

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What every programmer should know about memory

Unlike storage subsystems, removing the main memory as a bottleneck has proven much more difficult and almost all solutions require changes to the hardware.

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Friday, September 21, 2007

10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.3

Wordpress 2.3 details.

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15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography

Web typography has come a long way. Now, with a little CSS anyone can improve the design of their web site.

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Immediate Job Applicant Disqualifiers For Designers & Web Developers

#3 - When they write: “I saw your posting and I am probably not what you’re looking for since my skills are with ASP, not PHP. But I wanted to send you my resume anyway.” Sigh! I will just file that under “Deleted Items”.

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Deceased Malaysian hit with $218 trillion mobile bill

Now this is ridiculous

A Malaysian man who paid off a $23 wireless bill and disconnected his late father's cell phone back in January has been stiffed for subsequent charges on the closed account, MSNBC has reported. Telekom Malaysia sent Yahaya Wahab a bill for 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringgit, or about $218 trillion, for charges to the account, along with a demand from the company's debt collection agency that he settle the alleged debt within 10 days, or get a lawyer.

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed

Here's a handy little guide to point you in the right direction...

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Wednesday, July 04, 2007

30 free HTML email templates to get you started

Getting your email to look great in all the major email clients can be a challenge at times, so we've done the hard work for you with these 30 free email templates. We've tested them in all the major email clients, so add your own content and you're all set.

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Beginner's Guide to the Vi editor

Nice introduction to the Vi editor

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Friday, June 22, 2007

Asshole driven development

The software industry might be the worlds greatest breeding ground for new systems of management. From Agile, to Extreme Programming , to Test Driven Development (TDD), the acronyms and frameworks keep piling up. Why?



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Women's Facial Expressions

Although not quite the technology topic, but quite entertaining, as sometimes men have problem reading their spouse emotion


Finally, there is a guide to women's facial expressions and how to provoke each one in your own girlfriend. Note: use it at your own risk. The original was published here, so I did the translation, and intend to broaden the scope a little, with your help. Send in pics of other emotions, not covered here, for example: "uncontrolled anger", "sheer excitement", "love is in the air", "ecstasy from shopping" etc.

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Hacker Adrian Lamo Wins, Won't Have to Give the FBI his Blood

Famous Hacker wins court case!



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Facebook and MySpace are like chalk ‘n’ cheese

Wich tribe do you belong too?



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Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days

The past 21 days have been some of the most intense hacking days that I have ever had and the same goes for my team that worked 12 to 16 hours per day every single day --including weekends-- to implement Silverlight for Linux in record time. We call this effort Moonlight.



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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

A Killer Airbrush Photoshop Post Editing Tutorial!

Hello everyone! I thought I would put this tutorial together, as it seems every time I post an image that I have processed in this way, everyone wants to know how I did it. Well here it is and check it out. Enjoy.



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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Ruby on Rails Rake Tutorial (aka. How Rake turned me into an alchoholic)

In this article we're going to discover why Rake was created, and how it can help our Rails applications. By the end you should be able to write your own tasks, and learn how to get piss drunk using rake in no less then three steps.



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5 Cool Linux-Powered Phones

We have seen the future of cell phones, and it’s Linux. These five phones bring the flexibility of Linux to the portable world.



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