Suing people for calling him a Spammer

May 29th, 2008 | 4 Comments »

This guy has been threatening with a lawsuit about every Romanian blogger who dared tell people that Urban and Associates have been fined for spam by ANRCTI, the Romanian authority in the field of Communications and Information Technology. To show he means business he’s currently pursuing suit against www.legi-internet.ro (Internet Laws) asking for the site […]

in English |

Dreamhost and mod_rails for your tiny Rails application

May 29th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

To my shame as a rubyist, it was only a couple of hours ago that I found out, while reading Ruby Inside about mod_rails and the wonders it does for the Rails community.

in English, Rails, Tutorials |

Don’t use G-Archiver - it’s spyware

March 9th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

For those few of you who aren’t subscribed to Coding Horror blog, here’s a creepy piece of news:
a reader of the aforementioned blog discovered that the shareware program G-Archiver which claims to be a “Gmail backup solution” is actually a trojan spyware which actually sends back to its creator an email with the Gmail login […]

in English, Stiri IT Media si Internet |

How to import Ultimate Warrior Tags into Wordpress 2.3+ and how to easily backup your Wordpress database

February 25th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

If, like me, you had been using Ultimate Warrior Tags (UTW) to assign Technorati-compatible tags to your article, then you must have been as annoyed as I was when upgrading to Wordpress 2.3.2 or Wordpress 2.3.3. All of the sudden, Wordpress acquired tagging capabilities but disabled UTW along the way.
Don’t get me wrong, I love […]

in English, Tips and Tricks, Wordpress |

Digg changes voting… again

January 24th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

According to Techcrunch, Digg’s founder just announced new changes to the rating algorithm - namely, it becomes very difficult to promote a story to the homepage with the help of your friends: a diverse, unique group of diggers is needed for this.
So… this means the end of the “Digg circles”(where u ask your friends for […]

in English, Web, scurte |

Italy prohibits Internet free speech

October 23rd, 2007 | 10 Comments »

Again, an article in English, because I want this to be read by non-Romanians as well. I just heard an unbelievable and frightening piece of news, on the blog of an italian Flash coder, Emanuelle Feronato, who says it’s the end of Internet in Italy:
Ricardo Franco Levi, Prodi’s right hand man,…undersecretary to the President of […]

in English, Politice |

One man’s fight kneeling Amazon down

October 17th, 2007 | No Comments »

Who said one man can’t change the world?

Today is a great day for everyone with an interest in free speech, free software, software, freedom and.. well.. for everyone:
The infamous one-click patent owned by Amazon has finally been proven invalid. This was one of the most controversial patents in the history of internet and, as Paul […]

in English, Politice, Web, links |