I have been listening to Scott Hanselman‘s podcast for long time and it’s really very informative for geeks. Anyway, Channel 10 decided to wander around Scott’s home and see what geeks can do to make life more techie and easy. I like this video maybe because we are building a house now and I’m gonna make it state of the art smart home. Lemme tell you that my home will be far smarter!
Finally, we can go back to normal with the end of the strike. WGA has announced the end of the bloody strike and now we can watch our favorite episode airing as normally as it should. No more short seasons (Heroes S02 is only 11 episodes wth!) or delayed episodes (took ages to continue airing Prison Break S03). Crippling the TV industry is over.
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!!
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);