O Crominho do Técnico



Bruno Afonso's babbling and seldom refreshed views of the world

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Category: Web

Overengineering what?

CultureCode’s Things has been trying to implement cloud syncing for many months now, maybe a year (by now, who cares anyway). Their last post on the subject can be read here. It seems the company is unable to hire an expert in the matters at hand instead of wasting an entire team’s months of work. [...]

Yes facebook, I know

Unfortunately I cannot ignore them all with a single click.

NYT Paywall Blogs: FAIL

NYT wants to put blogs behind their new upcoming paywall. It seems that not even they know what is going to be happening with it and the rules. Interestingly, they may exempt famous blogs like Freakonomics and Paul Krugman‘s (recent Nobel prize winner) from being behind the paywall. Let me get this straight, they will [...]

Google is evil after all

In what critics are calling “musicblogocide 2010″, Google has deleted at least six popular music blogs that it claims violated copyright law. These sites, hosted by Google’s Blogger and Blogspot services, received notices only after their sites – and years of archives – were wiped from the internet. Shame on you Google. Follow this on [...]

Save MySQL from Oracle

Mysql is the most ubiquitous database server in the world as far as number of installations goes. It is also open source and you can use for free or buy support for it. If you have ever bought any hosting programs or use a simple website setup that is backed up by a database, chances [...]

Facebook users

Pelo menos estamos ‘a frente do luxemburgo… mas atras de toda a europa(!)

Dizer mal e' popular

De vez em quando comeco a seguir links que alguns blogs de amigos meus chamam ‘a atencao. Normalmente, sao blogs populares na blogosfera portuguesa. Apos andar a saltitar entre os blogs populares, chego ‘a conclusao que o denominador comum entre a maior parte dos blogs e’ a arte de maldizer. Esta’ tudo mal. O pais, [...]

Nuvem

Facam o vosso aqui.

Facebook's walled garden

Jason Kottke writes on this post that a guy named Yishan Wong wrote a rebuttal about Facebook’s Walled garden approach. But, try and see the note here and you’ll get this: Pretty hilarious eh? :-)

Mesh

Scoble has already summarized everything you need to know about Mesh: Yes, the synchronization features that most of you will notice when you start up the Live Mesh are pretty cool. Unfortunately they aren’t even close to being finished. Mac support? Coming in the future. Nokia support? Unclear. iPhone support? Ask Steve Jobs (translation: will [...]