During the course of the day I encounter lots of challenges, some of which take minutes to solve and others that take much longer. My goal for this section is to keep track of these challenges and their solutions. I will turn the longer ones into articles, while the shorter ones will stay as blog entries. You can expect topics to range from very specific programming challenges to broader topics like life.
Below is a list of the recent blog entries. You can also browse the blog by using the tags on the right side, or if you know what you are looking for then you can use the search box at the top right.
Future of Web Apps – Miami 09 is almost here. Both Jake Lumetta and I are planning on attending. In addition to the conference, we decided to attend the Miami barcamp on Sunday February 22nd. So, let me know if you will be at either of these events. You can also follow me on twitter (@farhanahmad).
After the cold temperatures that we have lately had (<30, generally around 20s) in Madison (WI) I am really looking forward to the warmer Miami weather (65! :))
I have posted a new post on the ShopFiber blog about what to look for when choosing a web development framework and a few pluses for making django your choice. Check it out: http://blog.shopfiber.com/?p=90
I was a little bored so I decided to checkout orkut and saw the following fortune.
Why? I am guessing that because he was fired (as opposed to quitting), he was probably not good at his job? 🙂
First version of our business cards 🙂 What do you think?
Is it just me or Windows is confused when I ping 192.168.6.11 and it complains about 192.168.6.7 not being reachable? (see screenshot below)
I am loving Windows 7 so far, but, unfortunately, SharedView refuses to install. I even tried it under “Windows Vista” compatibility, but no luck.
“This program is not support on this version of Windows.”
To disable the Secure Desktop in UAC elevation prompts in Windows Vista you had to go through group policy editor and dig into several nodes to find it, Windows 7 changes this by making it part of the UAC settings. In Windows 7 you can get to it by…
If you are installing the latest version (0.21) version of TweetDeck and keep getting the following message…
The application could not be installed because the AIR file is damaged. Try obtaining a new AIR file from the application author.
Make sure that you have at least Adobe Air 1.5 installed. After installing AIR 1.5 if TweetDeck installation still gives you the above error then first install TweetDeck 0.20. Afterwards when you run it, it will tell you that an upgrade is available, go ahead and install. The upgrade should work now. Congratulations, you are on the latest version! 🙂
Windows 7 Beta will be available for public download on January 9th on the Windows 7 website. Interestingly, it will only be available to the first 2.5 million people. Let’s see if I will be one of them 🙂 For more information checkout Brandon’s post on the Windows blog.
Reading this post by David Welton it seems that Slicehost’s choice of x86-64 architecture wasn’t a good choice. x86-64 is supposed to have performance advantages, but David’s results are not showing any (in fact it seems proportionally slower). I am interested to see what Slicehost says about these results.