After working on the Swedish weather site klart.se for awhile I now work on my own projects again. So I have switched Codeigniter to Zend Framework again.
After a trip to Dublin I finally launched the beginning of a new social tourist Dublin guide. It is exactly the same site as both the Swedish Fuengirola guide [...]
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I’ve been busy writing agents for retreiving and parsing data in many different formats from many different sources the last couple of weeks. These agents fetch data for the Swedish city portal (actually almost 50 portals) that we are working on. The data sources are a big mess of free text, HTML, weird XML formats [...]
The winter is finally over. Though it was really nice with a long hard winter, with lots of snow even here in the south of Sweden, eventually one start to long for some sun. The snow melted away a couple of weeks ago but it’s not until now it’s really starting to feel like spring. [...]
Over at ajaxian.com I stumbled upon a link to Swapnonil Mukherjee’s blog and an interesting article about right aligning form labels. I seldom (never) do these kinds of tests but it is still good to see that other people actually think hard about these things. Designing good forms and applications is not as simple as [...]
Sometimes people climb mountains because it’s cool. I can understand that.
Now ajax and web 2.0 is cool. So this ajax whois service wants to be web 2.0. In order to be web 2.0 it must be simple and things must be fetched asynchronously. The service is also using the captha technique - ajaxified. A service [...]
I have been way too busy the last couple of weeks. I’m working on a flashy new portal as well as my old content management system Firesite CMS. In Firesite I have always used a rather limited but ok wysiwyg editor for html content authouring. In a recent project I realized that the editor just [...]
Am I the only one not oh-so-extremely-excited about the web 2.0? Or rather the applications that are usually mentioned together with the web 2.0 term. Technology wise I, as a developer, really enjoy seeing all those nifty applications experimenting with functionality traditionally only found in desktop apps. I’d even go so far as to say [...]
I recently received two weird email messages. The first one, I could see, came from the contact form here on dotvoid.com. The second looked more like ordinary spam with faked from and to fields. The spam email was however curiously empty of any real content. I soon figured out what was happening. Someone was, successfully, [...]
When working on a web portal project a couple of years ago I tried to find country names and capitals in different European languages. The portal never went live but the information was a bit hard to find without paying substantial money. I just stumbled upon the the old sql backup of the data I [...]
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It seems that Google has filed a patent regarding their search engine technology recently. In doing so Google have had to reveal more information on how they actually rank web sites and pages. Some things I knew to be important; like how many links to a site there is. That however is only partly true. [...]
