Coding

Downloading the free Adobe Reader I suddenly got  more than I had bargained for  – an unwanted copy of McAfee Security Scan Plus. So I had to stop the download. Check the conditions – sure enough, I had left the “install free McAfee Plan” button checked. And so I nearly got what I didn’t want

With all the coding playpens, browsers powerful  Element Inspectors and the availability of great debuggers in Eclipse, CodeLobster and NetBeans, one can easily forget how useful a Diff file comparison utility can be. And now that JavaScript and SQL, and CSS code starts to run into hundreds of lines and team connections can mean several

Image sliders are becoming de rigeur for many WordPress powered websites. And the basic jQuery-powered slider technology that has a solid reputation is the Nivo Slider  with its many features including some nifty transitions between slides. However if you search on the WordPress plugins page for Nivo Slider you will get more than 2-dozen plugins listed.

Reddit, the Slashdot/Digg clone, has a new web app devoted to group funding called CrowdTilt. Currently CrowdTilt is only available in the US but Crowdtilt promises to expand into foreign markets. The concept is really quite simple. One or more people organize a campaign to collect money for a group event, charity or cause. Druring

Imagine you have to report on an event which is moving through the countryside often at 40km/hr with nearly two hundred participants constantly jostling and taking new positions while  a global audience of close to half a billion fans wants to know the latest. That is le Tour de France. As a fan  I have

Thimble is the Web Page creation tool in the Mozilla WebMaker Project, a learning experience for fledgling Web Developers. This is very worthy project to foster web development skills.  But Thimble is well named because for an ambitious project like WebMaker, Thimble is a)way too underpowered and b)too annoyingly intrusive during page development. I had

In our review of the top ten books on jQuery, I recommended W3schools.com JavaScript and its jQuery pages as the place to go for testing out the code you find in the various book pages. However, there is another and perhaps better option for testing and demoing your JavaScript framework code -JSFiddle. JSFiddle provides the

Reality is being reflected: The OpenSourcery.com Blog KeepOpen is now the Site’s  Home Page The old website start page is here and can also be accessed from  Old Website menu item. All theopensourcery.com web pages are untouched and intact. You should be able to access them with their existing URLs with no problems. However, making this move

There are two places that I go for phone comparison data:  PhoneArena It is fairly simple to setup the comparison – and the review ratings are often bang on. GSMArena goes tellingly  further, offering just great camera comparisons like the following: Note the camera comparison is truly robust – click on the Gray Chart tab on the bottom of

Red Monk has a superb chart measuring Programming Language Populairity. This post is definitely worth seeing. Stephen O’Grady is following the changes in programming language popularity by watching It compares and contrasts the rankings of programming languages on GitHub[measure by no of Git projects] and Stack Overflow [measured by the number of queries on the language

There is a 2 in 5 chance of this. If CEO Time Cook does not do the announcement at today’s conference then the odds plummet down to 1 in 100. But it would be a brilliant “one more thing”, certainly fit the educational move Apple is making and gain for Tim Cook a large measure

Adobe has had to make some wrenching decisions of late. It has chosen to abandon its Flash player technology on Mobiles. It has also closed down it Flex development by releasing Flex to Open Source much like HP did for webOS. Adobe appears to be trying to see if they can get freebie development and

I just ran across a posting on Reddit which certainly caught my attention because it discuses the merits of C versus C++. It also revealing about a major player in software development: On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote: > > When I first looked at Git source code two things struck me as

Apple is determined to win back the leading market share in smartphones . So Cupertino took a took a page out of the Amazon playbook and nuked smartphone prices. Look at what this means: ZDNet says it all – Apples Pricing Nukes the  Smartphone Market And so this feature comparison raises a question about feature

Just installed Firefox 7 and it runs faster than Firefox 6 with less memory usage . Windows Task manager is reporting on the same sequence of browsing steps ending up at Google.com that Firefox 7 is using 32% less memory than Firefox 6 required for the same operations. But the HTML5test.com results were identically the

If you are a loyal reader, you will notice a dramatic styling change to Keep an Open Eye Eye, Sir. There are three motivations for these changes. First, the change is designed make the blog more readable through slightly larger type plus a  wider and more comfortable line spacing. Second, the change is also to accommodate using

The updated WordPress 3.1 is out and adds a lot of capabilities which will delight developers – yes, its one of those behind the UI screens updates as seen in the screenshot below: WordPress users who have updated to WordPress 2.9 will have an easy install/update to 3.1 [one of the key competitive advantages of

In web development scouring through hundreds of images is one of the biggest delay-in-game penalties. To avoid the problem, ye Editor uses a special directory scheme and reliance on a very fast image browser/editor. But ever since Jasc Paintshop Pro version 8 and ACDSee 10 passed their prime, ye Editor has been looking for a

One of the constant supplies for Jon Stewarts “self-skewering” stories on the Daily Show is Fox News where it is ridiculously easy to catch the network lying, prevaricating and otherwise speaking falsehoods with unbridled carelessness. See the Nazi Icons spoof or the many roastings of Glen Beck. Well I was surprised to see the same

Chrome OS has generated more questions than answers since its announcement. And the questions [doubts] are relevant: 1)InfoWorld – Will Chrome OS collapse under the weight of its own Web browser? 2)Information Week – describes several challenges including Desktop/Cloud integration 3)Information Week – good analysis of the strategy/positioning of Chrome OS 4)PCAdvisor – Is Chrome

Who is responsible for these articles on Friday July 17th 2009? They certainly do not mince words or pull punches. One flatly asks Google where is the economics behind Chrome OS? A good question as Chrome OS or Google Android certainly could take a big chunk of Netbook  OS market share. And Netbooks in turn

The following Business Week article confirms the nearly obvious – Kindle is going to be  a SmartTablet or NetBookPhone or whatever you want to call it. And Amazon is getting into the broader Kindle-selling game. It is preparing Kindle selling apps for other smart devices. What is absolutely amazing is that Kindle eBooks displace Adobe’s

The following book, Customer Winback : How to Recapture Lost Customers–And Keep Them Loyal, should be required reading in Redmond. The problem with Vista is that Microsoft has gone about systematically ruining its Windows brand. So one would think that Microsoft would be in “customer winback” mode. And the book is quite explicit about the

RIA – Rich Internet Application are designed to show off what is possible to do both online and offline with the latest Internet enabled programs and interface design tools. Many developers are looking at tools like Adobe Air, Java+JavaFX, Microsoft Silverlight, Trolltech Qt and other tools to provide not just Online but also Offline savvy

Now that the Palm Pre is set to launch (Saturday June 6th 2009), the final reviews are coming in and  … well you decide on how good the Palm Pre is: David Pogue, NYTimes – very discerning reviewer of electronics is very upbeat  Luigi Lugymar, I4U – wonders about the effect of the iPhone revelations,

RAIA=RIA++ This blog is instituting a new category, RAIA=RIA++,  which means that RAIA goes well beyond simple RIA . RAIA=RIA++ will track all the latest doings in the world of RAIA – Rich Anywhere Interactive Applications. RAIA eliminates the confusion around RIA. Some vendors like Curl and  Microsoft with  Silverlight are saying that delivery on

Just for the sake of clarity here are some of facts on the Windows 7 “free” beta: 1)the free downloads are here and pay attention to the Redmond cautions. This is a significant amount of work and will require a large spare machine. 2)The limit is now no longer 2.5million downloads but rather the cutoff

This book is not the Ultimate HTML Handbook for two reasons. First,  much of its content is already dated with the rapid change in HTML and browser capabilities making Ian’s good work on compatibility with browsers unfortunately out of date(he does not know of IE8, FireFox3, Google Chrome, Opera 9.6, …). It also lacks, for

Welcome to Pix of Toronto on WordPress 2.7. Our Toronto blog was down out for the count for the past few days. But thanks to some help from the WordPress people we have been able to restore Pixof Toronto.com to its full resplendent state! In addition we have added some new postings long overdue. Please

Randall C Kennedy at Infoworld sets the record straight on Vista and its performance. Here is the final word on Microsoft Vista performance relative to other Microsoft operating systems – go to the site for the complete story and documentation: Vista runs 40% slower than Windows XP Vista runs 17% slower than Windows Workstation 2008