the personal blog of John BouAntoun
Miguel links to a couple of interesting articles from MSDN about practical considerations when it comes to parrallel progamming.
We do lots of loop iteration operations at work which could be highly optimsied on multi-core machines using the parrallel approaches available in recent .Net frameworks, so this info comes in handy.
Curtesy of Slashdot, this article gives an interesting, though slightly over-dramatised description of flash cookiesm otherwise-known-as Local Shared Objects (LSO’s).
I remember a few years ago running into a problem where I couldn’t seem to delete the authentication certificate that flash system was using (presumably in a cookie). That was when i first realised flash doesn’t use the standard browser cookie system.
Information worth knowning, both from a security perspective and web dev.
Loving the WordPress Auto Updater plugin. Just upgraded from 2.5 to 2.61 without having to download or manually back up a thing. took 5 minutes tops. Fantastic.
Even backedup and brought accross my customised plugins and themes.
So a little late but news that Mono has released it’s 2.0 version, with C# 3.0 compiler support and ASP.Net 2.0 as well as a whole hole host of additional dataproviders and the really cool Mono.Addins framework (for writing apps with addins in them) and Mono.Cecil (non System.Reflection based bytecode manipulator). Also in this release, finally, is a decent Mono Debugger.
So I had been patiently waiting for fring to come to iPhone 3G through cydia a while back and then sorta forgot about it. Now I find out fring has come to the iPhone through the App Store. This is fantastic news and I’ve already installed it on my iPhone.
I was a little hesitant as I’m really only looking for MSN IM capability without having to hand over my IM credentials to a third party, and unfortunately, just like all the other players fring requires you register an account with them and hand over all your other IM credentials.
In this instance though, i caved and provided my MSN IM details, mainly because being able to make VOIP calls of MSN’s protocol is such a usefull feature. Lucky for me I mainly use my MSN IM account for work, so have nothing sensitive stored with the associated passport account.
So the phone previously known as the Nokia Tube, the Nokia 5800 has made a public appearance and from the look of the specs is sexy as hell.
Some reports seem to indicate that the touchy-ness of the phone is not the best though, which will be a hell-of-a disappointment if that turns out to be true on release.
Having used the iPhone for over a month now I’m getting very, very fed up with the phone (lack of) functionality. Between the poor reception, the dropped calls, the inability to make calls for minutes at a time and a percurliar bug where hanging up will take over 5 minutes (unless you reboot the bastard), I’m starting to wonder if the application goodness and large touch screen is worth it.
And to have all the goodness of a reliable phone OS, including video calls and MMS in a complete package has me drooling.
/me hopes that they fix the touch issue before it launches
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