InsideTheWeb@blogger.com: January 2005

Saturday, January 29, 2005

Browser Statistics

If you are looking for an easy way to get the latest statistics for usage. Have a look at the W3Schools Site of
Browser Statistics. This also includes current stats about OS used, resolution and the likes.

posted by WittRaider's Blog at 10:32 AM 0 comments

Friday, January 07, 2005

Navicat - Desktop MySQL GUI

Navicat - the World's Best MySQL GUI for Windows, Linux & Mac OS X is a rather claimy title for a product like this. I don't know if it quite meets it's promises, but damn sure looks like it. You can do anything from stored procedures to views and table contraints if you MySQL Server installation allows it. Unfortunately this is not freeware or an open source product. But at least they give you a 30-day trial.

As I said, I did not test this thing throughoutly but it looks very promising to me at the moment. The only thing I am missing is the possibility to plan a database using ER diagramms to design databases.

posted by WittRaider's Blog at 8:31 AM 0 comments

Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Comparing programming languages

While A Very Quick Comparison of Popular Languages for Teaching Computer Programming compares a simple "Hello World" Programm in Basic, C, Java and Python listing pros and cons in a very humoristic way, there is also a site which compares the "99-bottles-of-beer-on-a-wall" algorithm in currently 621 programming languages and/or different styles.

posted by WittRaider's Blog at 9:26 AM 0 comments

The Evolution of a Programmer

The Evolution of a Programmer made me laugh my butt of. It actually shows the natural ways of life in which programmers tend to align the solution to a problem to their own skill and not to solve the problem the easiest way there is. This is simply a great piece of insider-humor...

posted by WittRaider's Blog at 9:13 AM 0 comments

Monday, January 03, 2005

flashAmp - The Flash MP3 Player

I stumbled over flashAmp - The Flash MP3 Player when I came from the site check of FLASHKIT.com. FlashAmp is a nicely skinned MP3 streaming player completely built in Flash. I have not tried it out but there is an instruction page with the free download which enables you to change the coloring and playlist of the player dynamically to fit your needs. However new skins are currently not possible (again they are against a small fee and an order to the designers). Anyhow. Someone should do this: create a fully WinAmp compliant Flash Player that is free of any charge.

posted by WittRaider's Blog at 8:43 AM 0 comments

Sunday, January 02, 2005

Road Runner

Road Runner is a Macromedia Flash based news portal from Time Warner Cable. While the content might not be interesting to all audiences, especially web designers, who want to broaden their horizons of usability and accessibilty.

The portal as a whole is very nicely integrated - which is mainly due to Macromedia Flash. The site is organized into highly customizable and personalizable pods. For a portal this makes good sense, especially since media is seamlessly integrated.

You also have some options on the appearence like font-size and contrast to aid accessibilty. Also the help-system ist nicely integrated into the site, playing movies that explain what to do on the site and how to do it.

On the downside I have yet not found any permanent URL links or ways to generate favorites... just have a look and judge for yourself.

posted by WittRaider's Blog at 11:08 PM 0 comments

Spamihilator - Anti-Spam-Filter

Spamihilator - Anti-Spam-Filter may be tool for all of you, who still have mail boxes without a explicit server sided spam-filter. The tool is free and compatible with about any POP3 Mail-Client Software. I just started using it... if it doesn't help me, I'll let you know.

posted by WittRaider's Blog at 11:53 AM 0 comments


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