Making it happen
Archive for January, 2008
Type conflicts when compiling ASP.NET
Jan 30th
I encountered recently some mysterious warnings and errors like this one:
Internet Explorer 7 gamma-enabled PNGs
Jan 29th
Internet Explorer 7 has PNG gamma correction and it may be the most correct browser when it comes to this however it breaks your entire design, now seriously, who cares about correct rendering of PNGs with gamma information ? Anyway, you can always remove the gamma information chunk using something like TweakPng.
Must-see this week
Jan 28th
Mihai Patrascu’s mini-course at the University of Bucharest, on Thursday (more details here).
Why Symbian sucks
Jan 23rd
and Windows Mobile rules, the former simply does not focus on the developers.
wurbe 5
Jan 22nd
Adobe’s offices are really cool, they have a pool table, table tennis and even have a Wii with a huge projector, too bad the projector was used for the slides. You can see here what were the presentations, some where interesting, well, I don’t know Ruby so this was a big reason to stay attentive. I had the chance to discuss a bit with Vivi, Adrian Spinei and Alex Brie, however overall the meeting was much less social than the past editions 3 and 4.
Social networks theory
Jan 22nd
Really cool paper, I found out some interesting models of social networks like the voter model and the threshold network. Written by a Googler and a Microsoft employee.
Subjoost
Jan 11th
We’ve just launched the product that has been in development for a few months, it’s a Joost widget to enable subtitles for Joost
