Developer Circuit is growing and looking good. They provide a nice widget, in two different sizes, that are displayed in influential sites, such as top ColdFusion and Flex community blogs. It is currently syndicated by 52 sites and displayed over 8000 times today. The widgets were developed in Flex 2 (check them out in my jobs section). To post a job click here, and to find out more about the widgets, check out their widgets section.
Microsoft renamed the Windows Presentation Foundation / Express to Silverlight ... finally, cuz the WPF/E was the longest name for a technology ever! Not sure about this Flash Killer thing ... I do like the WPF, but it is Windows Vista / XP + .NET3.0 dependent ... and the Express part of it is cross-browser / cross-platform, but somewhat restricted and can't touch Flash's power and 97% market penetration.
Check out this great article for more info on Silverlight.
If you're a web developer, you should use Firefox. If you use Firefox, you should use Firebug. If you use Firebug, you should install the latest security update. You can read more at the official site, or simply update your plugins through the Firefox interface.
A couple of days ago I thought Google loved me. Immediately after I posted an entry, all the keywords for this entry showed up in the very first place in Google; but my happiness did not last. My blog get aggregated by a few large itechnology portals and after a few days, Google spidered their copy of my entry. Immediately after this event, they took my place in Google and took me completely out of it. It seems like their post has more authority than mine, the content is the same (its aggregated), therefore, theirs stay, and mine goes.
Is there anything I can do about this? I'd like to keep the aggregators, but somehow claim ownership of the article. Is that mutually exclusive? Is that what micro-ids are all about? Any help would be appreciated.
Web Developer, ironically, it's probably one my favorite Firefox extensions... it's up there right next to Firebug. They released a new version (1.1), which contains tons of nice features... one that I've been wanting for a while is collapsable JavaScript files view. Here's a list of the new features with this release.
Happy holidays from the iChameleon Group. Last year we sent out a candy cane smackdown xmas card, and this year is a shootout. So, merry xmas everyone, and happy shooting.
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) will introduce a beta version of Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 software, the next release of the world standard in digital imaging, on Friday, December 15th. Adobe is delivering a widely available Photoshop CS3 beta to enable customers to more easily transition to the latest hardware platforms, particularly Apple’s new Intel-based systems. The beta is available as a Universal Binary for the Macintosh platform, as well as for Microsoft® Windows® XP and Windows Vista computers. The final shipping release of Adobe Photoshop CS3 is planned for Spring 2007. The software can be downloaded at:
http://labs.adobe.com. [source]
Back in April I perform an egosurf test, so I chose to re-take it and see that changed... here're the updated resutls.
Resutls for "Rob Gonda"
| engine | ranking | ego points |
|---|---|---|
| google.com | 7th, and 8th | 8359 |
| yahoo.com | 1st | 7129 |
| msn.com | 1st | 2680 |
| del.icio.us | 2nd, and 11th | 2609 |
| engine | ranking | ego points |
|---|---|---|
| google.com | 5th, and 6th | 9246 |
| yahoo.com | 2nd, and 4th | 9390 |
| msn.com | 3rd | 2200 |
| del.icio.us | 1st, 2nd, 4th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 21th, 25th, 29th, 30th, 31th, 33th, 49th, and 50th | 14952 |
Motorola launched today a new noble site called ImproveYourKarma.com. It as site for a good cause, telling the story of Sven Goodsson, a good Karma coach that will teach you how to improve yours.
The site is hilarious and extremely funny, yet, carrying a nice chuck of technology behind it. The site has a few sections, but the Karma monitor is my favorite. It provides a widget that you can embed in your myspace page and it will scan your entire profile, blog, and comments, and will try to gage and quantify your Karma by analyzing the content in your page. I know, some would argue that the method is not scientific, but c'mon, we're talking about Karma here. Another really nice widgets is the Karma photo analyzer; it allows you to upload a photo, and it will analyze your aura, scanning the points of energy expressed by the colors in the photo. After analyzing the aura, it will provide a nice description of the findings.
Overall, this site is clean, attractive, high-tech, and really funny.
Oh yes, if the intro aerobics dance if not funny enough for you, press a few keys to find some easter eggs, which makes it even better.
Remember, this site is for a good cause -- Motorola will contribute portions of the profit to the global fun to fight AIDS in Africa, so enjoy and spread the word.
Ping-O-Matic is a service that allows you to ping various arregators. Ping will trigger them to scan your blog and index your content. Nothing extra-ordinary, but, the cool thing is that they provide you a direct link to come back to their site and automatically re-ping your submitted data.... so what can you do? You can set up your own blog to ping that link (simple http get), which will automatically ping all the major aggregators.
With blogCFC, all you have to do is paste that url into the pingurls config setting in the blog.ini file.
