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Beware Of A Virus Spread Via Facebook
This morning I’ve received a notification email from Facebook, notifying me that my friend Asaf left me a new message on my wall. This seemed to be OK until I read the message:
“hello Arik, hehe.. you could be tht naughty i didnt knw..really hard to see tht from my eyes lol
have a luk […]
Make the Unread Items in Google Reader Disappear
The Unread Items counter in Google Reader is putting you under pressure? Can’t sleep because of it? Well, you don’t have to see it any more. I’ve hacked a simple Greasemonkey script that hides the unread items counter in Google Reader. There’re two flavours of the script: one that hides only the all items counter […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Code Change That Was Needed To Increase Facebook Friends Limit
Today Michael Arrington announced that Facebook lifted their 5000 friends limit. As a tech blogger, I bring you the “behind the scenes” view: the code change that was needed to be done to increase this limit:
For the non techies:
line 3: commented out - the previous friends limit defined
line 4 - the new friends limit
Shocking. […]
Maybe It’s OK That Wordpress Kill Your CPU
Jeff Atwood writes about WordPress performance. Quite astonishing - it appears to be that if your blog is medium sized (or bigger) you must install WP-Cache in order it will survive traffic peaks and doesn’t kill your server.
When I read it, my first though was: “too bad they though that fancy control panel is more […]
The Benefits of Using Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as “EC2″, allows scalable deployment of applications.[1] Current users are able to create, launch and terminate server instances on demand, hence the term “elastic”.(Wikipedia)
I believe that the Amazon Web Services (and especially EC2) are one of the most influencing technologies that shape the future of the web. While for […]
Google Apps Engine isn’t Amazon Web Services
For those of you who don’t know who Guido is, he’s the creator of Python and now works for Google. Recently he moved to the Google Apps Engine team. If you want a quick introduction to Google Apps Engine, just read this blog post and then watch the following two videos: (the first one shows […]
ASP.NET MVC extension as a sign of change at Microsoft
The new ASP.NET MVC extension seems to be a sign of change at Microsoft. This extension is born from the requests of the community, being released with full source-code and integrates with not only Microsoft’s unit testing solution, but also with the alternatives.
And from what it seems, it really brings the fun to developing Web […]
Handling RSS Feeds with PHP using Zend_Feed
Zend Framework is becoming a very comprehensive set of widely needed components for PHP development. As other frameworks offer similar components, one of Zend’s Framework greatest strengthens is the fact that you can use its components as stand alone components and not only as part of the MVC structure. In this post I will show […]
A look into the new Android SDK
After seeing all this videos of prototype Android devices from 3GSM at Barcelona, it’s time for some more good news - as I reported earlier on twitter, Google has finally released the new Android SDK. As Dan Morill mentioned on the Code Day, the new SDK introduces a new UI (although Google promised that it […]
Updates from Android Code Day
It seems the Twitter is back online, so I’ve started updating there.
Soon I will upload the photos to Flickr.
Update 15:15: Caught a talk with Ouriel Ohayon (Ouriel is live blogging the event on Techcrunch.fr and on Twitter).
Update 15:40: I’m keeping updating from time to time on Twitter, and uploaded some photos to Flickr.
Update 15:50: Ouriel […]
