2007 is truly the year of Web 2.0 going maintstream! Queen Elizabeth intends to air her traditional Christmas Day speech on her new YouTube channel. The Telegraph has a good article about this for further ready.
This blog post from the New York Times is an excellent summary of what has happened since Facebook launched their Beacon advertising service in November 2007. Beacon is a programme that allows their advertising partner sites to prompt Facebook users on their website to post information about what they are doing back to their Facebook [...]
Robert O’Callahan is a full-time employee of the Mozilla Foundation and has been contributing to Netscape which became the Firefox browser since 1999. Mozilla has a development team of 5 people in Auckland, New Zealand, led by Robert. What is coming up with Firefox 3? Animated PNG This is one of the restrictions at the [...]
Darren Wood works for Finda as a front end developer. He mentions the blueprintcss CSS framework and another is YUI, the Yahoo! User Interface Library. There is a lot of discussion about if you really need a CSS framework. The advantages are that you can save a lot of time by using a standard framework [...]
I’m at the Barcamp event in Auckland. The first session I attended was by Rob Coup who is one of the contributing developers to The Dojo Toolkit. Dojo is a Javascript development toolkit along the lines of JQuery, Prototype etc. This one is open source but commercially funded by a few companies including Sun and [...]
Summary: An example of how we can create a function in .NET and then use them in SQL Server. This example runs an aspx page (useful for people wanting to call aspx pages from asp) How do we implement this functionality? In order to use CLR we have to: 1) Write a .NET class with [...]
The other day I talked about the promo email I received from Qantas with the special domestic deals they have on. Since then, I’ve seen banners all over the place – they’re really giving it a push. This morning in my inbox, I’ve received an email from Air New Zealand – guess what it’s for? [...]
Is it worth it? This morning I received an email with some special deals for flights from Qantas. I’m in love with idea of a cheap flight, but I was let down. One way trip from Auckland to Christchurch for $65 compared to $39 from Pacific Blue? Despite the lack of a great offer, along [...]
Well it took some time, but here is the resolution.. Exit Parallels Download the Blackberry for Mac software from the link below and install it Move or rename the BlackberryUSB*.kext folders out of the /System/Library/Extensions folder (i just renamed mine to *.orig) Restart the computer Open the parallels config window and make sure that under [...]
Simpl launched their new website and blog last week, with help from Marker. When I met Bennett Medary, the Group CEO at Simpl, I knew he would be a great blogger. The brief was to help promote the profile of the company in the marketplace. Well be careful what you wish for! The first day [...]