Archive for February, 2009

About freelance websites

About freelance websites

Regarding my previous post about getafreelancer, it seems that my situation isn’t remote (check the screenshot on the right):
I could not figure out how to delete this account. I have seen projects on this site for full-time work at $2.00/hour. This site is useless for working citizens in first-world countries like the USA or UK, [...]

Keep your bookmarks safe and synchronized

Keep your bookmarks safe and synchronized

Foxmarks is a FireFox addon that can keep your bookmarks (including the bookmarks toolbar) synchronized between different computers. It’s very simple to set up and it integrates seamlessly in the browser.
It also offers to keep your saved passwords on their servers (encrypted), but I didn’t opt for that.

Netiquette in emails

Netiquette in emails

netiquette = a set of social conventions that facilitate interaction over networks, ranging from Usenet and mailing lists to blogs and forums
While spending time on the Internet you eventually interact with many kinds of people. They belong to different cultures, races, age groups or genders. Some have a different way of life, of communicating with [...]

Laptop back from service

Today I got my laptop back with a new motherboard + graphics board. Apparently these two are fixed together. Along with the replacement I’ve noticed that 2 bugs were no longer present:

the system doesn’t freeze anymore when I eject the disk (it has been doing this since I bought it)
I can update to the latest [...]

Good-bye getafreelancer.com

Today I’ve decided to remove my account from getafreelancer.com. I haven’t used it for a few years anyway, but there were some private details about me hanging there.
Funny situation:
I used their help desk to ask for my account removal because they don’t have a simple email address or form. Next I received an email telling [...]

Google Earth Becomes Google Water

Google Earth Becomes Google Water

Google Earth just hit version 5. Among the new features are:

the ocean floor is now available instead of the blue thingy
you can now see older satellite images of a particular place (we now have the 4th dimension)

More info on the new Earth version on G blog, including a video. Or go straight to the download [...]

Web development security tips (PHP)

I’ve seen a lot of hacked websites lately (most because of SQL Injection). Almost all the security problems occur because us web developers assume that the users will act naturally and because we’re lazy to keep testing all the input data or wonder what if?. This is not a how to hack article, but it [...]

Chrome still not good enough

Due to recent troubles with my laptop, I’ve turned to my desktop PC again and decided to try out Chrome since FireFox wasn’t installed. I got to the point where I was accustomed to the new browser interface quite well.
Then the bad stuff began:

some pages looked weird. Probably Webkit doesn’t read a particular CSS correctly. [...]