Category: Web work

These days, most of my work is very related to the online world. Building web sites, reviewing web applications, integrating with web services, coordinating people who are far away from each other, etc. Whenever I find a new tool or service or an innovative, interesting idea about working online, I share it in this category.

Piecon – favicon with the progress bar

Piecon – favicon with the progress bar

This is an interesting idea.  Sadly, it didn’t work in my Google Chrome, even though it should be supported.  Works nicely in the Firefox though.  Follow the link to see the demo.

 

ADWiki

ADWiki

Online documentation system for JavaScript projects that adhere to JSDoc API documentation format.  Includes:

  • Tools for parsing JSDoc blocks in the JavaScript files
  • Clean documentation website based on Twitter Bootstrap
  • Simple blog engine integrated with the site, where developers can commend and extend project documentation.

Requires Node.js and MySQL.

Happy birthday, Slashdot!

Slashdot, probably the most well-known technology news website, is celebrating its 15th birthday.  I can’t say that I’ve been reading it for 15 years (yet), but I’m pretty close.  If I remember correctly, Vladimir showed it to me some time back in 1998-1999.  I’ve followed it since.

Even today, with all the multitude of tech blogs and news outlets, Slashdot is still important to me.  While you can get the same kind of news elsewhere, the discussions are still the reason to go back.  Some are funny, some are obligatory, but mostly are insightful comments that show the original article’s problem  space from different perspectives.

Happy birthday, Slashdot!

Worst excuse ever

For the last few days, if you go to almost any Cyprus website, you get a warning like the one on the screenshot below.

This one in particular is from the Google Chrome browser, and here is how Google explains it:

This message appears if Google Chrome detects that the site you’re trying to visit may have malware.

And just in case you didn’t know what malware is, Wikipedia to the rescue:

Malware, short for malicious software, is software used or created to disrupt computer operation, gather sensitive information, or gain access to private computer systems. It can appear in the form of code, scripts, active content, and other software. ‘Malware’ is a general term used to refer to a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software.

Malware includes computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, spyware, adware, and other malicious programs.

Apparently, this time, CyTA had something to say:

CyTA said any computers receiving the message should clear their caches and cookies as the phenomenon was being caused by a virus, which was affecting connections. It said the sites were clean and did not contain malware. “It is a false message caused by a virus,” a CyTA technician said.

What?  Really? Make up your mind, sir!  Is it a false message or was it caused by a virus?  If it was, it’s not so false then, is it?  Oh, and I wish viruses were as easy to take care of as clearing browser cache and cookies…