25 Feb 2010 at 22:01
teun
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(Look at title) Think again. Opera has once again made a big leap forward with their browser. Their new beta: Opera 10.5 has the fastest javascript engine available at the moment.
But you might think: Chrome was fast, I don’t need faster. Well, I think the same. But Chrome is a very skinny browser, Opera isn’t. You can add widgets(ok ok, Chrome has extensions, but still), have speeddial and full HTML5 support. So enjoy Opera, and let’s hope it gets even faster after beta.
Source: Computerworld.com(click image)
20 Feb 2010 at 14:53
teun
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Did you ever find yourself in the situation where you want to program something, but don’t know what? Or do you just like a challenge every now and then? Then Project Euler might be something for you. At the moment I write this they have 279 challenges in their database.
They got everything, from easy challenges, like finding the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000. To hard challenges which I won’t even explain here :).
So if you like a challenge, please visit Project Euler(yes, you have to register. No, they don’t send spam).
19 Feb 2010 at 13:37
teun
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Logo taken from smashingmagazine
Another quick tip today(I’ll try to give you a lot of these, and maybe one bigger tutorial every week or so).
Ever wanted to see HTML5 in action? And especially the <video> tag? Well, I did, and now I found out Youtube made a béta for it.
Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/html5
I like it, I love it when new techniques are put to use by big companies like Google(owner of Youtube in case you didn’t know) because that makes it more attractive for other developers to use it in new systems.
Please note that this only supports webkit browsers for now, so Google Chrome and Safari only.
You can find more youtube experiments on: http://www.youtube.com/testtube
18 Feb 2010 at 23:22
teun
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A lot of people(I guess around 90%) uses bit.ly as a url shortener service for twitter. But you’ll always come to that one tweet where you need to have 2 more characters, but the bit.ly link is too long. Now of course, you can remove the http:// in front of it, but that prevents it from being clicked.
There is an alternative: is.gd is really good(as it’s domain name kind of suggests ;)). First of all: for now it only uses 5 chars behind the slash, bit.ly uses 6. And second: it’s domain name is one character shorter. Third: I like the name more than bit.ly anyway.
is.gd also has an API, just like bit.ly, only a bit simpler. Please refer to the is.gd API documentation for that.
Examples:
http://blog.beijers.eu in bit.ly: http://bit.ly/9fGeDD
http://blog.beijers.eu in is.gd: http://is.gd/8Gh9H
Every bit helps :)
18 Feb 2010 at 21:27
teun
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After being offline for quite a while the blog is finally back!
The biggest change being: it will barely be about PHP anymore. It will be almost all about Java EE. This is because I’m trying to migrate everything I do from PHP to Java.
If someone requests a PHP tutorial I might still make it, don’t worry about that, I’ll just prefer Java.
Please remember: Java != Javascript
