Author: Hugo Gameiro
I run Masto.host, a fully managed hosting solution for Mastodon instances and Nuvens.pt, a Portuguese hosting service for websites.
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Google Chrome View Source
IMHO view source from Google Chrome acts really odd.
When you click view source a new tab opens and the page is loaded all over again.
Maybe there is a very valid reason for this. But I cant find one. To me this can even be problem.
Examples:
- If you pass values via POST you cant get the results as Chrome does not re-POST it just issues a new request using GET and a new session. (I found a couple “Notice: Undefined variable” on some of my code, but this was my problem as I wasnt doing proper verifications) But anyway you never get the POST values and see the source for your page.
- If you have a counter or random dinamic content you will never get to see exactly what you get on the rendered html you have on the initial tab.
A work around is to use “inspect element” but its not the same. Its great for some things but its not the same.
If someone finds a valid reason for this “view source” behaviour I would love to know.
I just order two tickets to http://www.ux-lx.com/
I am really happy that this kind of events happen in Portugal as it gives us (Portuguese developers) a chance to learn and share experiences and knowledge.
UPDATE: minutes after I emailed about this I received a friendly response and the issue bellow was solved. Great job.
I am not one to normally nag and complain about stuff, but for a user experience professionals conference this menu issue made me laugh:
Anyway, and as I started complaining having http://www.ux-lx.com/index.html and http://www.ux-lx.com/ both working is not a very good thing for SEO.
P.S. – Sorry about this guys at http://www.ideias-imagens.com/ but just couldnt resist.
htc magic flash perfect spl – android
This christmas I offered myself an htc magic from Portuguese provider TMN.
This came with a “perfect” SPL 1.33.0014.
After a few hours searching I ended up using the goldcard method to flash it up.
I followed http://vivekgolecha.blogspot.com/2009/08/as-promised-i-said-i-would-come-up-with.html but with some changes.
I 1. no need to download the fastboot as it comes by default with the new sdk
II 1. I used a sandisk 1gb without a problem.
II 12. i quick formated the sd card to fat32 on my computer on this step (not sure if it was needed)
II 13. choose the “removable disk” from the bottom option and NOT the top eg:”Untitled Disk (F:)” – I almost gave up here. So simple and was my main problem.
III 1. Used “ROM v2.53.707.2 (Engineerings SPL v1.33.2010)” as you cannot downgrade spl for me this was the only option
III 29. My sdcard was causing some media error. I took it out and without it no problem. I ended up formating it using the phone and it re-started working fine.
And thats all you need to change spl.
After that I followed this tutorial http://forum.pplware.com/showthread.php?tid=4043&page=1 (Portuguese) my recovery page looked and gave me some diferent options, but it was common sense.
Its working fine. Faster and without any errors or bugs. so far 🙂
Contra os numeros apresentados neste mapa eu diria que a Microsoft tem a maior rede social do mundo.
O Windows Live Messenger que fez por estes dias 10 anos é para mim o local onde mais pessoas online se encontram com os seus “reais amigos” – 330.000.000 de utilizadores activos por mês.
Aquilo que me leva a escrever este texto é uma total incompreensão da razão pela qual a Microsoft não avança para este mercado que o Facebook tão bem está a dominar.
Imaginem o potencial de ter 330 milhões de utilizadores unicos mensais na mão e todos os outros que utilizam o sistema operativo windows. – 90% dos computadores pessoais
A juntar a este potencial o capital que a empresa tem (e a facilidade de obter mais) e não se dislumbra a minima estratégia nesta àrea.
Temos aqueles anuncios ridiculos no Messenger, o absurdo pop up do windows live e aquela brincadeira de perfis a lembrar o pessimo site msn.
Não estou aqui a dizer que sei melhor mas que é estranho e dá que pensar dá.
Deixo aqui os meus 5 centimos. Que tal repensar a estrutura do messenger e nele englobar capacidade html para ao clicarmos num nome de utilizador ou mesmo ao falarmos com ele termos ao nosso lado os detalhes do mesmo e os seus amigos? Formas de procurar novos amigos dentro do messenger? Associar os apis de outros sites (tipo twitter) de cada um dos utilizadores para que ao falarmos com um amigo podemos ver (sem sair do messenger) o seu stream de twits.
Bem penso que se me deixar ficar a pensar sobre isto nunca mais paro de dar ideias e a Microsoft não me paga para isto.
Eu com 1% de 330 milhoes de utilizadores activos por mês podem ter a certeza que estava no caminho para o topo e não simplesmente sentado a fazer toques de decoração na maior aplicação para rede social do mundo.