Posted by Johan Cyprich on 27 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: General, Videos
Google has a search tool that can be accessed through your phone. Dialing 1-800-GOOG-411 (or 1-800-466-4411) will allow to give verbal commands for items that you want to search for. If you want to find a pizza restaurant in Vancouver, you tell this to GOOG and it will give you a list of restaurants in [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 22 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: General, Reviews
We’ve all heard the same advice from our parents and teachers when we were children: work hard in school, get good grades so we can go to university and get a degree. Then we can get a high paying job with good benefits, and we’re set for life. Sounds like great advice, but unfortunately its [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 21 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Humour
If you type about:robots in the address bar in Firefox 3, you will see the following page:
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 19 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: How To
Windows 2008 Server and IIS 7 proved to be a real challenge in moving my old IIS 5 applications that were running on Windows XP Pro. Just when I thought everything was running smoothly, I ran into a file size upload limit which I thought I had already adjusted.
In the older IIS, I added the [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 19 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Programming
I recently found The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer while using StumbleUpon. Its an article that was published 25 years ago on USENET by Ed Nather.
Its interesting because the author writes about a programmer named Mel who created a highly optimized application in machine code. These are the binary instructions that are directly executed [...]