Archive for August, 2007

Seam Carving For Content-Aware Image Resizing

The video speaks for it’s selfm it’s just amazing…

Now wouldn’t you Photoshop users love that as a feature?

Well, saying that, Adobe has hired one of the inventors of the technology. So I guess we could assume that it will be implemented into a future version of Photoshop.

Here are a few other interesting videos I found on YouTube that are pretty cool.

Content-Aware Free-Space Transparency
Content-Aware Scrolling
Content-Aware Layout

Facebook Server Configuration Mistake

Yesterday, Facebook seemed to have configured their server wrong, so what happened, was a small amount of Facebook users got fed the PHP code for the page they were trying to access. There seems to be a lot of talk about it, but really it’s no big deal. It’s not like you could piece it all together and create your own Facebook from the source. The problem was fixed straight away.

More information…

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

Part of the comment posted by Brandee Barker from Facebook at techcrunch…

“I wanted to clarify a few things in your story. Some of Facebook’s source code was exposed to a small number of users due to a bug on a single server that was misconfigured and then fixed immediately. It was not a security breach and did not compromise user data in any way.”

Here are some tips to prevent this happening to you…

Learning from facebook, preventing php leakage

Scollovers

Nice little script someone has put together to create scollover effects. Have a look at the link below for an example and source…

http://www.scrollovers.com/

Eric Schmidt Defines Web 3.0

Spotted this a few days ago on YouTube, but forgot to post it.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt gets asked the question “What is Web 3.0?”, and offers his prediction.

Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn’t it sound like Facebook? :p

Perl is Dead. Long live Perl.

“It seems every day I am questioned about why I write in Perl versus PHP, Java, C#, Ruby, Python, or [insert your favorite language here]. People say things like, “Perl isn’t used anymore is it?” or, “Ruby on Rails is all I read about anymore.” As I write this, there are millions of Perl programmers around the world. Perl 5 is being actively maintained, and Perl 6 is in development. More than 3000 Perl Modules were released in 2006, and more than double are on track to be released this year. The reality is that Perl is far from dead.”

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/08/perl_is_dead_long_live_perl.html

Feel like learning Perl now? ;)

DS Lite

Have been thinking of getting a DS Lite, though am not sure if it looks that good.

What’s your opinion on it? Is it better than the PSP?

dslite.jpg

WordPress 2.2.2 and 2.0.11

“Today we have two security-related releases available for both users of our main 2.2 branch and the legacy 2.0 branch. As these releases include only security and minor bugfixes they should not cause any plugin or theme compatibility issues, so you have no good excuse not to upgrade.”

http://wordpress.org/development/2007/08/wordpress-222-and-2011/