Today we’re gonna set up a WAMP server. This is not a step by step guide. It’s more a “concept” paper. I will show you what you have to do in order to get your server up in minutes but you’ll have to work your way to the end alone.
WAMP is an acronym for the [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Get your own Webserver up in minutes
February 28, 2006 – 4:01 pm
How my iPod became useful
February 21, 2006 – 4:08 pm
Thanks to an article I’ve read on Lifehacker (the self-sustaining iPod) I’m now intensively using my 20GB iPod as an external Hard Drive. But there’s more on it. Let’s take a closer look at “what’s on my iPod“.
That’s DooM, isn’t it?
Ok this is VERY optional for all of you “normal” people out there. My iPod [...]
Blog Readership Bogged Down
February 15, 2006 – 10:38 am
Like the Gallup Poll pointed out: Blog Readership Bogged Down.
Gallup’s latest examination of Americans’ online habits finds that one in five Web users read Web-logs, or “blogs,” either frequently or occasionally. Though this translates into 40 million readers, it relegates blogs to the bottom pack of Internet activities, among the 13 for which Gallup recently [...]
Songbird - Play the Web
February 10, 2006 – 4:46 pm
Songbird, a “Web player built from Firefox’s browser engine” (XUL) has been released the 8th of Feb.
Check out the official site songbirdnest.com to find out more about it: it’s not just a black iTunes clone!
Songbird plays the Web. Play any MP3 on the Web without leaving the page. Songbird can view Web pages as [...]
µTorrent and the good ol’ days of code optimization
February 9, 2006 – 12:09 pm
Here you are with a veeeery small bittorrent client: µTorrent.
At a glance (taken from the official website):
Multiple simultaneous downloads
Smart bandwidth usage
File level priorities
Configurable bandwidth scheduling
Global and per-torrent speed limiting
Quickly resumes interrupted transfers
UPnP support (WinXP only)
Supports popular protocol extensions
Trackerless support (Mainline DHT)
Localized to different languages
Typical memory use less than 6 MB
Incredibly small: 115 KB (slightly varies [...]
The Web 2.0 Culture (web2.0 design in a nutshell)
February 5, 2006 – 9:35 pm
Funny (!!!) article about the new 2.0 design.
Major MUST-DO’s:
Rounded Shapes
Shades
Sans Serif
Pastell v2.0
Footers
Buttons
Font-Size: Oversized
Descriptive HTML (XML style)
Major DO NOT’s:
Java Applets (Script is fine though)
Animated GIFs (the blinky ones)
100% Flash Websites
Visible tables
This is available at 2.0Culture. It is a nice read and it basically review “what makes you look like a 2.0″.
Nice reading if you plan to [...]
How I Migrated Server
February 5, 2006 – 11:52 am
I migrated this wordpress powered site from one host to another (hopefully faster and more reliable). I’m still settin’ up the latest nuts and bolts to make the site back working again. I also upgraded to Wordpress 2.0.1 in the process.
It took me 3 hours to get the migration process finished (and still I’m not [...]