July 11th, 2006
BusinessWeek has compiled a brief history of Bill Gates, from college to starting up Microsoft, till he left Microsoft on June 15, 2006. It's worth spending a few minutes to learn about the Microsoft man if you have never followed his story.
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July 7th, 2006
Flash drive, the technology used in cell phones and iPods will one day replaces the kind of hard disk we are using currently? And the reason?
Because flash drives, also known as solid state drives, don't have any moving parts, they’re faster, quieter, more efficient and more reliable than hard drives, which read and write data via a movable arm and a spinning magnetic disc.
This is extremely useful especially when you are constantly moving person with your laptop. However, at the moment, to use the technology as a replacement for hard disk is still a very expensive solution. Hybrid flash drives will be the coming up trend while the price of flash drive drops.
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July 6th, 2006
From my understanding, Fjax is an Ajax engine that uses Flash to do the XML parsing job. The site claims that Flash will do better parsing job than a normal Ajax would.
Fjax is an open, lightweight, cross-browser methodology for Ajax-style web 2.0 development
Fjax is a technique focused on drastically streamlining the XML handling layer of web 2.0 applications. Picture Ajax's XML parsing and handling with less than 65 lines of code! It's not a replacement for toolsets that provide presentation-layer visual gizmos. Think of it as a new engine to put under the hood of all the great widgets that are already out there.
Although the site looks cool, I hate it when I can't link directly to the sample to any other pages in the site.
I don't know whether it will become something big one day, but I'm sure programmer would like to learn about alternatives.
Fjax - an open, lightweight methodology for Ajax-style development [fjax.net]
July 6th, 2006
'Google' has been added to Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as a verb, just like what happened to 'Xerox' long time ago. I'm afraid that this will be a common sentence one day:
I used Yahoo to google for books.
I find it interesting to know the fact it has been accepted formally, although I've been using 'google' as a verb all the while.
Read: To Google or Not to Google
June 22nd, 2006
I just received a newsletter from Chitika, telling me that they have come up with a new advertisement unit, the Multi-Product Unit. As the name says, it's a single ad unit with multiple products in it.
When you point your mouse to the small image at the bottom, it will be swapped with the large image, together with all the text on the right updated. For this feature, I find that it is still quite buggy. Have you ever seen a black iPod that looks like a camera? After swapping the products for a few times, I see this (notice the text and the image):
It's only available in the size of 468x180, which is why I don't put a sample here.
I like it when they are creative to create eMinimalls last time. And now, they have multi-product unit. Keep up the good work, Chitika. (However, they need to do more tests on their product as well!)
