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Some thoughts on blogs

A big thumbs down for
“aggregative” blogs – I mean that’s why RSS aggregators are for. Their value is too small compared to creative (or DIY) blogs. I can’t think of a great value but in niche domains – but in that case there are few information sources and thus it’s no problem reading them all. In a broad domain like technology or business, however, I find a better alternative collaborative news sites like digg.com.

Experienced developer needed

We are currently looking to expand our team with an experienced developer (in Visual C++ / .NET) that is passionate about software development, interested in disruptive tehnologies and capable of guiding other developers and able to participate in designing software.
If you think you are up to the task or know somebody who would please drop me an email at andrei at krogos.ro.

Apache / Windows strange bug

So here at Krogos we have Mantis (nice site for bug tracking) running on Apache (Windows installation). Now, from time to time I’ve noticed that files are not returned completely – this means partial css / html downloaded, thirds of images shown on the client :D and so on. Until today when I used this fix.

Too much memory on the video card?

And you’re not into gaming? Try to use it then for anything else.

Visual C++ refactoring

Couldn’t find any add-ins for this – someone please give me a shout if they really exist. I’m saying about VS2005-like refactoring menus and of course better stuff if possible.

Back button with AJAX

I’m pretty sure it can be implemented in a pretty simple way – when clicking on a button / link that has a javascript onclick handler simply store the current page status (including javascript variables though – problems here?) so you can revert the state when the Back button is pressed. So it should be feasible because Firefox already caches the pages so it has code for saving / reloading page data.

.net framework source code

Why
isn’t it made publicly available? MFC is sometimes easier to work with because
of this. Also – there is no secret or protected stuff in there to say that they
are defending their IP, at least nothing I’m aware of.

Web 2.0 success story ?

1. Decide on a pretty used desktop application
2. Start your own company, named from the already famous generator
3. Port the application to a web-based version (with AJAX of course)
4. Optionally add collaborative editing features over the web
5. Design the site using ideas from here
6. ???
7. Profit

Web 2.0 design

I absolutely love digg’s series of Web 2.0 design posts. However, besides the fun that has been made over these sites, their fresh look is definitely welcomed and let’s face it – they look far better than usual ones.

3D battle

Interesting Guerilla marketing or more likely an unfair business? – here and the Beyond3D thread is here.

Nvidia Corp. Monday faced charges over hiring fans to communicate with
computer enthusiasts in forums and communities, get needs and
requirements of hardware users for the graphics processors developer,
share the technical information with the end user, pre-test software
and hardware and, possibly, create positive image of Nvidia’s products
in computer forums. The firm has admitted some of the actions, but
denied other allegations.

No need to comment on it as the beyond3d folks did this in 36 pages – and I’m an ATI fanboy anyway :) .