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I'm not sure I totally agree with this statement. They aren't taking thing seriously with their products? If publishing a half-assed product out on the market prematurely because "it has to be that way" is "serious" to you, than OK - but I'd rather have it that way than them sending the product just for the sake of it, and than taking it back because it was bad. I actually prefer it this way. And also, a lot of companies do this type of stuff (invite-only) to boost their product sales. Not that a company like the "big three" (Apple, Microsoft, Google) need to do this type of stuff, but still... As for Google notebook, I've never used it and I can't say for sure. But - and I'm not sure since I only know from various images - if notebook was good, Wave didn't seem ready for the market at all. If they had worked on it, maybe it'd see the light of day (and I would be happy if that had happened), but this way - nope. If you meant something else by this, I apologize - but please enlighten me.

This is interesting in deed... http://forums.xisto.com/topic/71810-the-flash-Xisto-site-and-a-couple-of-other-advices/ I STILL play with Flash a lot, but it's mostly fun and games - I've left Flash out a bit in favour of Javascript (X)HTML, PHP and CSS (and similar languages). I've never made a website in Flash to this date, but if a client were to ask me to I would have no problem with it.

As for creativity while not abusing current trends (that's right, Web 2.0, I am in deed looking in your direction!), Elliot Jay Stocks makes valid points in one of his presentations ( http://www.elliotjaystocks.com/speaking/ ) about finding your inspiration in the offline world - like Jason Santa Maria ( jasonsantamaria.com ) did with his blog taking inspiration from the print design world and styling articles individually. That way, you don't get stuck in a loop of same-design-all-the-time and get to make interesting designs. For instance, Brian Hoff got his inspiration for The Design Cubicle's site ( thedesigncubicle.com ) from his neighbour's fence! - More about that on http://abduzeedo.com/brian-hoff-talks-about-redesign-tdc As for Flash, it's not perfect in any way - but it's designer-friendly more than any other language (again, one of the valid points Elliot Jay Stocks makes in his presentations). That's what makes it very popular with designers and other creatives. Well, that and the fact you can make really cool effects with it (like shift the screen totally upside-down). I'll try TiddlyWiki for sure. At least to see how much Javascript can my HP take at once.

Hey Shahrukh, you made some great points about design - but there are also some I don't agree with totally (I must mention, however, that all of them have at least one point I agree with). So, let's just see... 1. About Flash; although it shouldn't be used on blogs which need to be updated frequently by people who don't know Actionscript, it's just fine for a personal portfolio. You can even easily provide a fallback, as stated on http://www.warmforestflash.com/blog/2010/07/make-your-flash-site-iphone-friendly/ - just use SWFObject and its capabilities! (P.S. I don't know how Flash CMS's work, so if anyone does, please make some light on it; could they (in theory) be used for blogging?) - one point I want to add to the article I linked up there is, you should utilize @media CSS3 Queries ( http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/ and https://www.google.hr/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%40media+queries to find out more ) for mobile sites rather than special domains. It's a great way to resize the page in modern browsers, and doesn't require an additional domain. 2. Javascript in sites is perfectly fine but, as you said, it shouldn't be abused (remember that - NEVER abuse it!). Think twice; do you really need that window resize? If it's some subtle effects (like, for instance, animate color change on link hover), I say go for it. 3. Totally right. Just look at Jakob Nielsen's site (useit.com). 4. Also don't base design on trends. It's going to wear out pretty soon, and you're going to stay with a redesign in your hands. 5. Yaay for fun!

You're not the only one with this opinion. Many guys in web development these days also didn't think much of Wave and it didn't really get much support. I suppose that's one of the reasons it's shutting down. But, like anwii said, I also pretty much support Google and I'm a bit sorry it turned out that way. Maybe they didn't give it enough attention...

Although my clever and humoristic (not so much any of those, but I like to brag) title might have had you confused there for a moment; let me elaborate (although you probably know by now):Google wave is kaput, cancelled, destroyed, buried where the Sun don't shine. Bad news for some, expected for someone else, good news for antoher guy, and I feel totally indifferent. Like I would've ever used it. (Okay, maybe I would've sometimes; but I never really gave it a chance).Sure, this announcement could be a Google master plan to get Wave back on track and get the media to talk about it, but I really doubt that possibility. (Although I probably wouldn't have mentioned it if I thought it was impossible)The news is all around the Twittersphere, Blogosphere, and perhaps Facebooksphere (that is, if you have really, really geeky friends), so I'm not going to go all yadda-yadda-yadda about it: here's the link: https://googleblog.blogspot.de/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html

That's exactly my opinion, said in a longer fashion. You should approach people with a good stance, but if you don't see the same happening with them you obviously are not going to stand still and take that from them. Everywhere around world, bullies act the most brave when they're not getting any resistance. It's easier for them that way!

I wasn't very sure where should I put this topic in, but eventually I decided "Answers" would be appropriate. Because I hope to receive answers to this "colorful" question, which everyone will answer differently - I hope. Now, you might be surprised why I'm asking this sort of "stupid" question. Well; the truth is, I am making an time-tracking application that people can use to view time spent on their projects. Since I'm absolutely sure not everyone make projects the same way, I wanted to do a "market research" beforehand. Here's what I have so far: Project name Hours estimated (I'm not sure about this one, I intended it to be here - but I don't know how many determine the hours beforehand) Start date (again, do I really need that?) Deadline (I think this is the way to go and one of the better features) Description (not required to fill in, but I believe it might be useful for reference) Sub assignments -- which basically divide the process, supposedly like this: Make a website for a client XX Create a mock-up and approve Design everything like supposed to Make revisions for client Code it in HTML and CSS, wait for client to change their mind Code again, but now implement a CMS Wait to get paid, maybe go to court if he refuses The form also allows you to pick the importance of your tasks (important/medium/low). So, this might not be an ordinary question, but this is really something I wanted to explore. Do you like the assignments simple®? Do you think there's too much in this one? Do you want to be able to mark various assignments in different colors in a time-tracking list? Thanks!

As others have said; this is a very interesting topic, in deed!In my firm belief, when you first approach people you should be nice to them. If you don't want them to judge you, you shouldn't judge them. Even if you know he/she is a bad person, approach him/her (okay, I'm done with this sex changes, I'm going to refer to "it" as "he" ) like you don't know that. Maybe he'll turn out to be just OK.When you've spent enough time with him, however, that you think you've found out enough about him, you're free to make your own fair opinion about weather he's a bad person or not. If he treats you like *BLEEP* and insults you in the public, you obviously won't continue being nice to him. There's no point, since he'll see you're not putting up against him and he'll just continue doing the same things over and over and over again.A slight diversion; don't be to hasty to make a judgement, since the guy may actually turn out to be a pretty good person. And you don't want him to think you're the "bully". It might prove useful to have him as a friend in the future.

So, first you should get a hosting. Although rpgsearcherz recommended Virtual Private Servers or Dedicated servers, it all depends on your starting point. It's maybe better for you not to go down that road right away, since you most probably won't get a million users a month right away. It's best if you pick a reasonable monthly bandwidth (no one can tell you what that is exactly, but depending on various parameters you shouldn't go below 50 GB) and upgrade if needed. But that's not your primary concern now, since you first must decide how you want the site to work; how do you want to appear to the public (fun, serious, or something in between), and what's your targeted market (obviously, if you were to sell houses young teenage girls wouldn't be someone you'd want to appeal to primarily). Now, honestly - I don't see that you really know what you're getting into, or what you want off of your site. For one, you must realise this is not a $100 dollar job. There's hosting fees (some dedicated servers go as high as $40-$50 and more dollars a month), then there's design fees (and if you want a quality guy like Jason Santa Maria or Elliot Jay Stocks, you must be prepared for at least $2500) and development fees (the guys I listed before can do most of the development, too - for a reasonable add-on fee, of course), advertising fees (it's up to you where to advertise, but ideally you want to start off big - with premier ad networks such as "The Deck" or "Fusion ads") and more unplanned expenses which can (and probably will) appear somewhere along the way. All in all, you should be prepared for (a) large expenses in front, before even starting and putting the website up and running and ( a lot of work, calling people, preparing for the launch and brainstorming. If you really want to do it, you must prepare for a big fight since sites like eBay already have made a name for themselves and you're just starting out - which means, you must offer something unique in order to be recognized. Good luck with that but, as I said once before, without a clear goal in your mind and without being prepared to spend (lots of) money before actually starting to earn something, there's very little chance you'll do something that matters.

On Jango you can also rate tracks according to your liking, either with a smile () or a frown (). Is the other site perhaps last.fm? I think I had it two years back in my bookmarks when I bought my HP laptop, but I don't use it since they don't allow it in all countries. A large plus for both Grooveshark and Jango is that they are available everywhere. You're welcome for the plugin! P.S. If you do watch The Simpsons occasionally, there is this one show where they're in an aquarium and the guy leading them through has a badge that reminds me of Grooveshark 100%. Just watched the darn thing, but I don't know the name of the episode. P.P.S. No, I'm not weird. I'm just very, very special. I also don't behave like that usually.

If you don't know what you want to listen to, than Jango is definitely your radio-streamer of choice. Not only will it combine songs according to your taste (for instance, I chose Rolling Stones, and it added occasionally The Beatles and Eric Clapton), but it'll also give new artists a chance in the airplay once in a while. It's called Jango Airplay, and you won't love it all the time (some artists will appeal to your taste and some won't), but it's there as a side-effect; you can not turn it off. Oh yeah, almost forgot; the site is jango.com P.S. There is a great plug-in for Chrome which gives it some basic Grooveshark controls, play or pause, next, previous and stop buttons. You can download it from http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Well, yes - it's obvious they already knew what they will say while chatting (I don't really believe she called her friend and thought "oh, well maybe she's home"), but the platform (Chat) itself doesn't look like it's readymade for that presentation. I wouldn't expect anything less than their live conferences being scripted, because people would say Microsoft's unprofessional if they wouldn't do so. It's not like they're Google or something.

Hey, this is an interesting video which shows what sites exactly send data to Google, and it turns out pretty much every site sends some kind - at least from services like Google Adsense and Google Analytics.[media]http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ there is a vimeo video, so I don't know exactly will it work. Anyway, the plug-in can be downloaded either for Google Chrome ( http://www.jamiedubs.com/ ), or for Firefox ( http://www.jamiedubs.com/ ). These links are direct links to plugin download, the "real" site is http://www.jamiedubs.com/ .

Well of course they would lie. That's what big companies do. Actually, that's also what politicians do. But not only big politicians, even the small ones. Do you know where was it proven that the game was scripted? I would really like to read it, since I find it hard (yes, hard - although big companies have been known to lie more than a few times ) to believe they would first show a false video, which they know will be seen many times, and then make "real" ones. Something doesn't fit, my dear Watson... Something does not fit.

Hate to reply to my own post, but just now I've found a very-very-very lightweight CMS/File Management System, which can only be downloaded via Github (I think it's git.com, but if not just Google it). The name is Toto (http://cloudhead.io/ toto ), and it's "The tiniest blogging engine in OZ". Since it uses no database (as I understand, I haven't tried it yet), you can't have comments on your site, but that's easily handled with other comment-only systems like Disqus ( https://disqus.com/ ) and similar.Warning: Command line work needed.

YES! That's it. Sorry I was to lazy to check it out in my Visual Studio... http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/ might help to RPGSearcherz.

Yeah, Ruby isn't so widely deployed in the Server-side world (where PHP and ASP rule), but I still think it's worth a shot. At least so I can say (when I'm with computer geeks, of course) that I know Ruby. I suppose it'll be a little side project for me now to learn the language... Well, at least the most basic commands. As for the syntax, I believe no one who has ever worked in any C-based language should have problems understanding most similar languages, and both PHP and ASP (who has a C# underlying code syntax, if you want it that way) are somewhere in the line with it. And Microsoft's tools (Visual Studio, Visual Web Developer, and the newest Expression Engine Something (there are 3 of them)) really do help while programming in one of their languages (as you said, ASP and, as I said, Silverlight) a lot, they have good - what's it called - snippet indication (I can't remember the exact word right now ). You know, the thing which appears when you type in a method or function or whatever.

Hmm, that's an interesting topic web_designer. As most people said here until now, I somewhat prefer PHP, but I suppose that's because I use it more in Wordpress and similar programs. When I'm working in a local company, we use our own ASP Content Management System, so I do know a thing or two about ASP.NET, but I am a bit rusty since I was using PHP intensively for some time now.However, these two are not the only Server-side languages and I am a bit interested in learning Ruby, since I really like its syntax and what some people have done with it on their websites. For me, it seems as a "geek heaven" to use Ruby, but I can't say for sure until I "digg" () deeper into it.

Hmmm, if you're looking for a flat-file platform probably the easiest way would be to make it yourself (no, really), because I don't know about that many of them. Most use databases for pulling data from the server (duh, data-base ). But I think it shouldn't come to that since Stacey is pretty powerful as a CMS. Just look at what David DeSandro did on his blog (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ ), and I think you'll find out for sure. There's even a post "dedicated" to Stacey (Going steady with Stacey, http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ ). As for other systems (that may use a database), Smashing Magazine has recently tweeted about a CMS called zotonic (http://zotonic.com/ ), which seems like an interesting way to blog. It's made in a language called "Erlang" (never heard of it until now), and the back-end reminds me of Wordpress a lot (just watch the video and look at some of the screenshots in the gallery - http://zotonic.com/gallery/ ). I personally wouldn't use it since I wouldn't feel comfortable with using a language I don't know (Erlang), but someone maybe knows it or simply doesn't want to mess with the back-end code anyway. Its plus sides are that they claim it's very fast. Anyway, for anyone who wants to explore the CMS world a bit more, I suggest looking at this blog post over on Vivalogo: http://www.vivalogo.com/vl-resources/free-lightweight-simple-cms.htm Lightweight CMS systems, I haven't looked through all of them, but I suppose at least some of these forty use File Management.

They all copy from each other now even more than they did from ten years ago. Whoa, good thing Apple doesn't go all the way to Asia to search for logos, because you'd be in pretty big trouble if they did. Okay, I'll give you exactly one million dollars, and you go to your garage and bring me a product that's even more innovative than the computer. My point is; even though he was (maybe) rich, he didn't start drinking, doing parties or drugs or something worse. Instead, he actually went to his garage and invented something that we use even now, a few decades away from that point in time. That's for respect, no matter if he was rich or poor. Because he basically went from (I'm inventing numbers) $50 million to (now I'm not inventing) making (personally) $50 billion and a multi-billion company. That's just how I see it.

Ooooh, now you've reminded me of a funny story of the million plus versions of Windows 7 (and Vista, I suppose, but I'm not 100 percent sure), where your upgrades go through like this: [The user] I want to upgrade. [The Operating System] Sure, wait a minute... Erm, two seconds -that is. [The user] OK. [The Operating System] Congragulations, you've just succesfully upgraded your Operating System to Windows (I don't know) Enterprise. Click OK to continue. [The user] Whaaaa... That was quick (Stopwatch == 5 seconds) I have paraphrased the story a bit, but I think you get my point. As for the piracy thing; Well, the companies have no control over it. Just remember the infamous DRM protection Ubisoft utilized in some of its newer titles (if you don't know what the hell I'm talking about; you basically need to be conneected on line to Ubisoft's servers in order to play, for instance, Assasin's Creed 2 - if you aren't, you can't even save the darn game!). There'll always be people who make software and people who hack it. And I think that's a good thing in a way since it'll make software companies go further and try out new technologies and electronic devices. Even the Ubisoft DRM got cracked, as CNET reported recently (well, in April - it's here: https://www.cnet.com/news/ubisofts-controversial-always-on-pc-drm-hacked/ ), which means nothing is untouchable. My point from all of this being; I respect all of these companies. Sure, I dislike that Apple has that philosophy of theirs (we'll sue anyone who uses anything remotely like our logo - the image above and http://bc.ctvnews.ca/apple-threatens-lawsuit-over-b-c-school-s-logo-1.330840 ) and that Adobe prices their products in the range of $2500 per suite (and around $1000 per individual product) and I absolutely hate Internet Explorer, but I still respect all of these companies a lot. To make a business out of your garage is huge, and it's a great goal to achieve. When you look at Microsoft during its early days, everything suddenly becomes clearer to you: Now, you cannot say that didn't make your day (punk )

I think I've noticed that the edit button disappears as soon as I leave the forum. I'm not sure, though, but that seems to be the reason. Oh, OpaQue... Where are you?

Oh, come on - this is just silly!I've just remembered I wanted to add another link to the list I've just discovered, and now I can't edit even my last post... I hope I don't make anyone mad by this reply. :DSo, the site is Tea Round Application( http://www.tearoundapp.com/ ) for the iPhone, and it has a couple of nice effects to it - for instance, the slider and the great Lightbox plugin which, unlike all the others of type, really noticeably makes the transition between small to large images.Again, sorry for double (or was it triple?) posting, but this non-edit stuff really drives me nuts.

Sure, the designs themselves shouldn't be copied pixel-per-pixel, but some of the ideas and/or elements from them can give you the needed "push" while designing.Anyhow, I wanted to do two things now. One of them is a question: Why won't the system let me edit my posts after a certain period? Is it because of the myCENT money system? That's my best guess, but it's always possible I'm wrong.The second is, that I remembered the name of the site from my second post. The "popular-fubis.jpg" should actually be called "popular-fubiz.jpg", since the site is http://www.fubiz.net/ .