Category: All

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CySEC copy-paste logo design continues

A while back I blogged about Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission website using a copy-paste design of the logo from the United States Department of Health and Human Services.  Since then, CySEC website got a new look and feel, as well as a new logo.  Well, it looks like they haven’t really solved the problem of the copy-paste.  Have a look yourself.  Here’s the updated CySEC logo from their current website:

CySec logo

And here is the logo from the Money Project:

Money Project logo

Arguably, not exactly a copy-paste like before, but way too similar not to fall into the plagiarism, which is just a fancy word for the copy-paste.

Web Development With Assembly

The other day I was joking with a colleague of mine about how much fun it would be to do the web development in Assembly.  All the usual stuff – pages would be super fast, and the whole subject makes it for some fun interview material, as the candidates mention Assembly pretty much on every CV.

WebDev with Assembly

And then I decided to do a quick Google search.  To my (not so great) surprise I got to hilarious this Reddit thread, which, among other things, links to MiniMagAsm, a web development framework written in Assembly.  It compiles into a native binary and can be executed as a CGI script.

I’m not going to use it any time soon, but I think it’s super cool, and way more than a simple “hello world” page that I was expecting to find.

Global Internet Map 2012

internet map

I came across “Global Internet Map 2012” – an interactive map by TeleGeography, via this article (in Russian).  If you read the language, check the article for more maps and resources on the subject.  Also check my previous posts here and here.

Apart from the absolute visual awesomeness, one thing that struck me in particular is how weird the world looks if you just rotate the map a bit.

SugarCRM cache directory – it is NOT a cache directory!

Here is a useful reminder from a few years back – “SugarCRM cache directory – it is NOT a cache directory!“.   Unlike most modern day web applications, which use cache/ folder for temporary files, which are safe to delete, SugarCRM keeps a bunch of stuff in there, which, if disappeared, would leave you in a very uncomfortable and confused stay.

Things have obviously improved over the years, but it’s still far from perfect.  And while we are on the subject of surprising issues with SugarCRM, make sure check my other post about working with encrypted values.  Basically, the summary is: backup, backup, backup!  If you want to sleep well at night, backup SugarCRM’s full file system (files, configurations, temporary files, caches, etc) and its database.  And never ever change anything.