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- Me and my laser eyesDecember 7 2008
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are going to leweb
see you there
- On SOAP APIs and hurt egosNovember 27 2008
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Let’s get something out of the way. The people who dislike SOAP APIs are people who like getting paid to do repetitive and mindless work.
Either that, or they like to take on easy projects such as communicating with REST APIs to compensate for their overall lack of skills.
The only valid criticism I’ve ever heard is that SOAP isn’t meant to be consumed by people. THAT’S RIGHT BITCHES ! It’s meant to be pointed to by a tool that will read the WSDL file and create a wrapper for your language of choice. No XML parsing for you, no mistakes, no type ambiguity, no nothing.
Then again almost all of the critics just attack the fact that the standard is backed by every single large corporation. They can’t stand the fact that the unskillful makers of their ubercool/iconic programming language or framework don’t have the skills to make the mentioned tools.
So so so sad.
Get over it, or suck your thumb and go home.
- Tip: How to save your overwatered cactusNovember 20 2008
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You know how florists sell cacti in closed pots so that you’ll eventually overwater them ?
Next time also ask them how often you should water them, and they’ll tell you to throw in double the amount than what a cactus needs.
Then again there are accidents where you and your siblings think that the plant is underwatered and you end up choking it with love.
Now now, if you just overdid it, there is a fix. Just take some kitchen paper, roll it and stick it to one side of your pot. In the photo below I have 4 sheets of paper, left in for 24 hours.
Repeat until humidity returns to normal.
Generally speaking, for cacti, if a piece of paper can suck out water, then that water has to go.
- Skydrive v3, Hits and MissesNovember 13 2008
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The details on the 3rd public release of Skydrive are out. I consider Live’s online storage service extremely important due to the shape of things that are coming. Both from a user and a developer standpoint.
So let’s see what we’re getting.
Hits
- 25 GBs of storage space. Since no one was using the ginormous 5GBs that were previously available they though they could ramp it up anyway. That’s only good. In fact it’s crushing every single paid service I know of.
- Better photos. You can now download straight to the Live Gallery, or download a folder as a zipped file. Awesome !
- Photos can be seen in fantastic Flash or Silverlight slideshows. It also syncs with Live Photogallery’s tags for people etc. The thumbnails are huge blah blah blah. If this was a standalone photo service, it would be great, but it’s actually more.
- Integration with the new Live Home page that we’ve only seen in the Connect programme. It’s awesome, I promise.
- Sync your Internet Explorer bookmarks among machines.
Misses
- 25GBs of space that are separated from the Live Mesh service. No comment.
- Better photos that actually antagonize the photo service found in Live Spaces.
- Sync your Internet Explorer Favorites, but not with favorites.live.com . WTF ?!
And let’s see the
- Letter to the macsexual communityNovember 4 2008
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To the people that are whining again over Windows 7 copying OSX's dock:
- look at how the Dock copied the Taskbar in the first place. OS Classic users need to think what they had before that.
- the simple fact that 7’s taskbar has only 3 things in common with the Dock:
- the use of icons instead of descriptions, which is inevitable for multitaskers and makes sense in a touch enabled OS.
- the ability to reorder things, which was a longtime request of users
- the ability to mix launchers with instance switching. Launchers such as the Dock's stacks existed in Windows since the shell 95
And the reason I'm bitching about this, is that now that the macsexuals have started bitching, I'm bound to hear shit like : "Why do you use a copycat OS ?" AGAIN.
Thing is, OSX has systematically ripped off every bit of Windows they found interesting, JUST like Microsoft has.
