December 2005

Joomla Google Maps – blank map with markers

Google Maps is a wonderful joomla component, unfortunately when I tried showing my ‘international’ address as a marker on the map, it gave me a blank page (with nothing shown, not even the map). After a lot of tracing, and recognizing that the lat and long of the address are not even saved, I found the bug. commenting the...

Rails 1.0

Rails 1.0 is out. A similarly great project should be at a 2.0 release with such features. But Rails folks seem down to earth. Thanks guys. The release celebrations included launching a remake of ruby on rails website inspired by 37 Signals.

Del.icio.us is down – Yahoo is up

del.icio.us was down today. It was spitting out SystemError with “raw code” into my browser. Well, this made me think about those $40M Yahoo! have paid. I guess a large user community is something that is hard to get, and apparently worth a little. My Next Plan: Come up with an idea, put something together quickly, invite many people...

Del.icio.us Yahoo!

Keeping up with the flux in technologies and Web 2.0 should be a full time job. Really! I can hardly find the time for the piling feeds This is just in (into my eyes at least) – After Flickr –Yahoo! has bought del.iciou.us (who would’ve thought). Despite the fact that I don’t really like del.iciou.us (usability wise), yet I’m...

Working for a manufacturing company? Share Your Experience.

Yesterday I had a phone interview slash discussion with the CEO of href=”http://www.globe-soft.net” target=”_blank”>Globe Soft (Ilater knew that he’s the CEO from their website, he didn’t introducehimself). To cut the story short, the advertised position was for asenior J2EE Developer, a few minutes into the discussion I recognizedthat the company wanted a code monkey rather than a “senior” staff...