Posted by Jorge Bernal November 18, 2006
Or “Firefox 1 – Safari 0”.
Usually I use Safari on the mac, just because it’s more integrated with the OS. I think Firefox 3 will solve this. Anyway, whe I’m web-developing Firefox is much betterjust because of the Web Developer Toolbar Extension.
One problem of developing late at night is that the chances of doing something wrong arise. Yesterday, after 2 hours working mostly in the CSS stylesheet of a web page, I ran the wrong command and deleted the file. Stupid koke!
But nothing was totally lost. Go to Firefox, File -> Work Offline. Load about:cache and there it is. In fact, since Rails appends an unique sequence number after css and JS links (like /stylesheets/scaffold.css?1163818199), to avoid caching in development mode, I had all versions with me.
No need to say, after being able to breathe again I did a svn commit and went to sleep.
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Posted by Jorge Bernal November 13, 2006
Yep, I know this is old news, but I had in my list of things to write about, and it was a good excuse to close this posting frequency gap. The thing is I’ve been in London this week and the Hotel’s wifi was quite bad.
Google launched last September its new search service for news. It’s not the same as Google News as it provides searching in newspaper archives long before the digital revolution.
Some sample searches:
Obviously, apart from academic and research purposes, the most fun is in the older articles, finding first news about the most common products of today
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Posted by Jorge Bernal November 02, 2006
Some days ago, I arrived at The world’s oldest family companies (I can’t remember how). It’s a curious list of the 100 oldest family companies in the world.
Funny I can recognise only three of them: the two Spanish companies and Faber-Castle (maybe because I had to draw at college).
Another shocking fact is that Italy, France and Japan are leading this list. I haven’t counted them, but they seem to appear the most.
Well, taking a second read, I didn’t knew “Barovier & Toso” by its name, but if I say ‘glass’ and ‘Murano’ it may ring a bell.
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Posted by Jorge Bernal November 01, 2006
Since it seems to be the geek humour week at this blog, let’s recover something I discovered some time ago. It’s a web site which describe itself in this fashion:
Approximately 31 RFCs so far, starting with RFC 527, need some additional attention. Most of them were released on the 1st of April, claiming to be “funny”, for some reason in some cultures. This Document represents the current state of research to define the algorithm “IS_RFC_FUNNY” which identifies such RFC’s.
I’d bet the most known of those is RFC 1149 “Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers.”, but there are really good ones there.
- RFC 2549: IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service.
- RFC 2795: The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS).
- RFC 3251: Electricity over IP.
And to escape for our computer geeky humour to something more generic: Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. I’ve found specially interesting #5: that’s what happens when you let typography geeks write a joke.
UPDATE: C. Ovidiu points me to another funny one, RFC 3514: The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header
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