Elzo Valugi » Techie

Oracle Strategic Product?

elzo valugi — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:21:40 +0000

This is pretty silly. This Oracle form is really silly. By what logic someone in those forbidden condition will stop downloading this beta product? If you are from Cuba and US has prohibited export to your country but the website allows you to download, what will you do? How can one check if is on Specially Designated Terrorists or Designated Narcotic Traffickers lists?

In terms of web usability this form is futile for 99% of the people accessing it and the rest 1% that are terrorists, Cubans or narcotic traffickers will not really care about complying with its demands.

SO?

PHP Barcelona 2009 impressions

elzo valugi — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:48:04 +0000

Last Friday and Saturday I was attending PHP Barcelona Conference. Barcelona is a TOP10 tourist destination but when it comes to PHP we are a small province town, and as you may suspect Gaudi and beaches are somehow more famous here than programmers. But we exist and most of us try to do their best and this happens thanks to Barcelona PHP Programmers Group.

The program had enough presentation to choose from.

These are the presentations that I’ve attended:
Working with Web Services – by Lorna Mitchell, not bad but very basic. Probably good for PHP programmers who never worked with an API or webservice before. Alex Puig presentation about actually implementing an API was far more interesting.

Trees in Database – by Lorenzo Alberton. This one was better even though it wasn’t a PHP subject. I already knew and implemented some of this advanced data models, but not all. Interesting.

Simple is Hard – by Rasmus Lerdorf. Good. I love people that tell me I am stupid.
http://talks.php.net/show/phpbcn

Ajax for scalability by Erik Schultink from Tuenti. Good advices but nothing different from Facebook presentations seen on InfoQ and good only if you have the site with most traffic in your country .

Agile Development with PHP in Practice by Lars Jankowfsky. Basic.

I’ve also been to an Oracle on PHP workshop. Database Resident Connection Pool on 11g seems interesting.

PHP Security Audits – by Seguy Damien. Very clear and nice. Give me and Andrea something to discuss. I think I should do PHP and Javascript audits. Not only security but also code improvements.

The overall organization was good. Food and drinks, books with discounts.

The State of QA Tools for PHP by Sebastian Bergmann. Probably one of the most interesting presentations of the conference.

I did attend to a Phing seminar I think it is a pretty useful tool that I cant wait to test.

twitter surprise by Rasmus himself

elzo valugi — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:55:16 +0000

I was asking in Twitter if anybody knows about what Rasmus Lerdorf will talk on his talk at Barcelona PHP Conference, which was without a topic. I was also interested about the other subject that runs in parallel PHP Industrialization. I want to see the GURU inventor of PHP itself, but nevertheless I don’t want to see him to take a picture with him. This is not an amusement park. I want to hear something enlightening. I know that I can expect too much, it happen before at a PHP event with Zeev Suraski, from where I did go dissapointed. I hope people come in Barcelona and treat the conference seriously, and don’t take this a a vacation. I am absolutely fed up with tourists.

Anyway, this post is about the power of Twitter, which so far I was underestimating. How cool is to have Rasmus responding to you directly and in a non official manner?

Priceless.

PS. in January 2009 I was creating Rasmus Lerdorf page in ro.wikipedia. So probably exists a Law of Compensation. :)

google Chrome has already an API for extensions

elzo valugi — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:53:22 +0000

I was surprised to find it, as I thought it will take a while longer since it will be public. Javascript, HTML and CSS. So far is only for the dev chrominium version. Chrome will catch up soon with Firefox.

@chromeDevelopers please make the your console at least as good as Firebug.

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/api_other.html

do not buy Apple

elzo valugi — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:21:26 +0000

Sometimes I give suggestion to my friends about software and hardware. I started working on a HC91 and since then I worked on various types of hardware. I love computers and Macs alike, but this is not a reason to stop reasoning.

These days you don’t need a Mac. Not even in the old days. Some hardcore DTP professionals are probably the only ones that had any kind of argument, but those days are long over (the days of Corel on Mac – awful ).

Mac products are restrictive, cost way too much, have little or none upgrade capability, have a stable but closed OS, limited active community in development of software.

If you need something nice in your house and you like light curves buy a VASE.
If you need some self esteem in front of your friends, grow a PAIR.
If you need a good stable friendly interface for browsing install LINUX UBUNTU.

For everything else you can buy a cheaper, stronger computer, do your stuff and get out of the herd of marketing Apple slaves.

This is not a suggestion anymore. Stop buying Apple.

my geek code

elzo valugi — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:11:23 +0000

—–BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK—–
Version: 3.12
GO d-(—)?>++ s: a C++(+++)$ ULC P(+) L+(++) !E–(—) !W+++$ N++ !o K-? w+(++) !O—- !M– !V PS+(+++) PE Y+ PGP+ t+() !5 X R- tv b+ DI D G e+ h+ r+ y++
——END GEEK CODE BLOCK——

IE8 no WWW error

elzo valugi — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:16:58 +0000

In IE8 the links that don’t have the subdomain www don’t resolve correctly.

For example www.valugi.ro works and valugi.ro is not working and not showing any specific error. It just hangs indefinitely.
I recommend changing the .htaccess file in the root of your domain according to specifications of nowww.

google chrome http user agent

elzo valugi — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:18:04 +0000

Just in case that you were wondering how the new google browser identifies itself:

[HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

It seems that the Mozilla header doesn’t help to much when trying to access sites like “office live”:http://home.officelive.com.

First impressions are very good. Fast and simple browser. And although I like plugins and cluttering with more or less interesting and helpful tools maybe it will be idea to keep it simple.

First bug: “dojo test”:http://dojocampus.org/explorer/#Dojo_Drag%20And%20Drop.
Try to drag the yellow box in the movable demo and check against mozilla.

Second bug: it appears the google chrome doesn’t like frames. phpMyAdmin for example just displays a blank page after the connexion.

Canon EOS 0 – cel mai tare din parcare

elzo valugi — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:08:43 +0000

Ma plimbam pe net pe o carare pierduta si uite ce am gasit, un prototip de camera foto:

Dupa cateva secunde m-am trezit la realitate si mi-am dat seama ca e o gluma, un trucaj – ceva in genul sanilor Andei Adam. Camera asta e o combinatie intre cateva chestii bune si dorite si cateva aberante de-a dreptul:

1. lentile Zeiss – foarte bune si sper sa le faca si mai bune
2. buton pentru inspiratie – multi au nevoie de butonul asta acum!
3. OS – din pacate Windows Vista – sunt curios doar unde au bagat RAM’ul si ventilatoarele…
4. mouse – foarte bine…
5. micul ecran din dreapta sus? o intrebare pentru designerii de obiecte industriale: cu ecranul mare ce mai facem?
6. photoshop 3 – cea mai buna unealta din domeniu
7. rewritable blue ray disk – bun – cu nero
8. hard disk urias – 3 bucati de 1TB, poti sa iti salvezi toate episoadele de Simpsons aici.
9. speaker… ca sa vorbesti cu mami?
10. telefon? … dusul unde e?
11. mp3?… de ce nu mp7?
12. radio? TV? de ce nu wifi si linie directa luna-marte?
13. eMule —> LOL