Adobe announced 2 great releases today: Adobe AIR 2 beta and Flash Player 10.1 prerelease, both aiming high with Flash Player 10.1 being the first runtime release of the Open Screen Project and AIR 2 offering a significant performance boost with compelling features.
By the latest Coding Convention of ActionScript 3, the usage of the Array constructor is only encouraged for size allocation, e.g. var myArr:Array = new Array(2); for an array with 2 elements in it. In all other cases literals should be used, e.g. var myArr:Array = [];
Thawte, a leading global SSL certificate authority, announced today that the Thawte Personal E-mail Certificates* and WoT (Web of Trust)** are being discontinued.
What it basically means, is that many users enjoying Thawte’s free email certificates at this point, will be left in the dark after November 16th, 2009.
As by the HTML 4.01 specification, all attribute definitions of lists, such as ordered lists and unordered lists, are deprecated, meaning that you can’t make a list purely in HTML that would skip some numbers, e.g. 1, 2, 3, 5 skipping 4. Previously you could use start or value attribute to set a value for the list item. Now, as the attributes have became deprecated, any self-respecting coder would expect CSS to kick in with the alternative. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Read the rest of this entry »
At the times it seems European Commission’s anti-monopoly policies are there for Microsoft exclusively. Even so, Microsoft has complied and done a lot to meet the regulation for European market. This time though, it seems Microsoft is not willing to lose out and is about to outsmart EC. Read the rest of this entry »
Quite frankly, pretty much everyone familiar with Adobe Flash Platform would agree, that Microsoft’s recent try to produce their own RIA platform is not up to scratch. A very short walk-through below should give an idea of what’s the status of this venture.
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Economist Intelligence Unit has once again concluded with the E-readiness rankings of 2009 to measure the quality of a country’s ICT infrastructure and the ability of its consumers, businesses and governments to use ICT to their benefit.
As of this week, Elisa has the largest 3.5G coverage in Estonia. This comes as a result of the 3.5G availability for all of Tartumaa, one of the largest counties in the country. Read the rest of this entry »
Somewhat an interesting discussion took off on Twitter between me (@tekkie) and Jason Young of award-winning Virion (@virion_ca) about the IE6 Update technique. While the goal of such a technique looks decent, it’s mainly of benefit to developers. Read the rest of this entry »
Setting up a gallery in Drupal may easily turn into a lot of hassle. While Drupal is one of the most flexible Content Management Systems out there, it’s also one of the most complex on top of million modules for pretty much everything including the functionality for the simple gallery.
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