Some people in Kuwait are complaining about Fasttelco‘s security issues where some users are logging into different account. It started with a forum post that a user is experiencing some problem with his gmail account and logging on different account. That user was able to see other’s information and read his email. Google says that they are now working with Fasttelco to solve this problem.
However, it seems that the problem extended even more and reports are coming that the same problem is happening with Facebook and hotmail. A caching problem in Fasttelco is causing this glitch as the report says.
Fasttelco is one of the few ISPs in Kuwait and was established in 2000. More information about Fasttelco can be found here.
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Good web developer takes care of as much as possible of users browsing there web site whatever OS or web browser they are using. A good tool to do that is Browsershots that gives you a screenshot of many browsers and different version of every browser.
I found this great source of tutorials for anyone who’d like to learn a new JavaScript and Ajax framework. RoseIndia has a whole section in its web site just for Dojo Tutorial. A great free way to learn Ajax with step by step tutorials but you must have some knowledge in using JavaScript.
Believe it or not, XML is 10 years old! Happy Birthday!
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Version 6 of Drupal, the famous CMS, is released and ready for download. Many new and improved features are introduced, above all the new OpenID integration built-in. More about the new version can be found here.
I’m currently using Drupal 5.7 for student’s computer engineering society’s new web site at my university. I’m going to upgrade to the new version, but I think after few weeks because I got no time to do many changes in the web site. I’ll announce the web site URL soon.
We have been hearing unconfirmed rumors that Flash Player is coming to iPhone for some time. Well, many developers were waiting for Flash Player on iPhone ever since it was released eight months ago. But according to this blog, it seems Adobe is working on the player right now and that it should be out soon. That’s great news for web developers and many companies out there. The ability to deliver Flash applications to iPhone is a big plus for the iPhone!
DotNetBoom and ProRangers are going to hold a Community Open Day for developers and IT professionals in February 16th, 2008 in Kuwait. It seems that there will be lots of activities as the schedule shows, but it will be limited to Microsoft products and solutions.
This tour, is packed with live demonstrations and technical content on the upcoming and much anticipated solutions from Kuwait MVPs.
Get a sneak peek into technologies that include Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, .Net, Silverlight, Virtualization and more. You will also be among the first to see us unveil the new Unified Communications technologies from MVPs – a solution that will revolutionize the way people communicate and collaborate in the workplace.
If you’re an IT Professional or a Developer looking to gain insight and an edge over others, then you’ve got no excuse to miss out on this event! You may even walk away as the lucky winner of a new XBox 360 Arcade!!
If you wondering about the Singularity badget on the top of the sidebar then this interview should give you some idea about it:
Yahoo has released their Yahoo Maps API for AS3 which allows web developers to add mapping capabilities to Flash. Cool now we can use either Google Maps or Yahoo Maps in our Flash or Flex applications. Initiate the map simply by:
import com.yahoo.maps.api.YahooMap;
var yahooMap:YahooMap = new YahooMap("YOUR-APPID", stage.stageWidth, stage.stageHeight);
this.addChild(yahooMap);
Ted Patrick has posted some of its features here.
