Archive for the ‘Webmaster Playground’ Category

Silverlight as a cross-platform project with support for Linux!

It shouldn’t happen to Microsoft, but DAMN it seems that unloved company from Redmond has made the first GOOD thing for a long time. Today’s release of Silverlight 1.0 might be a real milestone, below I listed the biggest advantages of this really great project. Check this out:

Silverlight is a cross-browser & cross-platform project (there’ll [...]

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Evolution of Web Browsers, from 1991 to the present

Today I found a chart depicting the evolution of web browsers. In this picture you can see a very interesting look at the past and how far we’ve come. For instance, I didn’t even know that Netscape Navigator is older than damn Internet Explorer. For those who cannot view Scalable Vector Graphics there’s a picture [...]

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This Wordpress installation changes progressively

Alright folks, I’m back and made a few fixes by the way.

chicklet chooser in the sidebar (OnMouseOver switched to onClick, now it’s a little bit more user-friendly and works fine in every browser)
blog archives (Extended Live Archive plugin installed & Firefox bug fixed)
about me page renovated (I do have a few social profiles, [...]

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And it was all about only forty-five GPUs…

Comment made by Marc noticed me I forgot to describe how I managed to survive traffic driven by Digg, you know I cannot miss another opportunity to shill my favorite hosting company ;)

Let’s get started from this quote:

The way this system is made possible is by keeping track of each customer’s individual usage using a [...]

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2635 of Diggs, 85k of unique visitors and 130k of pageviews

Five days ago my post about Ubuntu girl was dugg, few folks requested some report, so there it is. The picture above my writings shows a chart of traffic that was brought by story voted 2635 times. Ubuntu girl was one of the most popular stories on the whole Digg service for this day, I [...]

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Where the Wordpress grows

There are so many reasons to use Wordpress as a major software for common websites (even semi-advanced ones!), not only for standard blogs. From time to time I do share some Wordpress stuff on my blog, so this time you’ve got two tips written in short ‘coz I’m still tied up:

Simply better sindication:
If you do [...]

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Media Temple - The world’s first iPhone web hosting control panel

If somebody asks me which web hosting company is the best one, I always answer it’s Media Temple. One can say I do advertise this company for free, but I think I’m just another satisfied customer and I do viral marketing. However, sometimes it’s pretty difficult to explain why my favorite (mt) is better than [...]

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