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Finally, the rumors we have been hearing for 3 months were made official, the papers were signed and now Interakt enters the big league.

The terms of the deal were not made public, but Alexandru Costin seems very hapy about it, even wrote a post on his blog with the headline “How I got to sell a company to Adobe”.

What this acquisition means to Adobe?
Well … it will boost Adobe’s presence in Eastern Europe, and also enhance Adobe products, including Macromedia® Dreamweaver® ( extend Dreamweaver’s capabilities for web application development ) and Adobe® Flex® software.

Headlines are very important in keeping user’s attention focused on the page, and to suggest what the page is about, right? So, I’ve been trying to make them as nice as possible. Over the years I think I tried every method succesively, each time improving the look of the headlines.

At the beginning, I used to save all the headlines as gif images and load them in page. This worked fine for small websites with few pages, but became really hard when dealing with larger websites, and dynamic content.

After that, I saved every alphanumeric char as gif’s and with the help of a PHP function transformed a headline like “Welcome” into

Back then I found this pretty cool, but now I really hate the websites that are using this technique because the page is loading awkwardly…

In time, I created a PHP function that takes a string as a parameter and create an image on the fly with the string in it and using any TTF font I wanted. There are many websites that are using this technique, and I couldn’t say that’s very bad.

About a year ago, I found about the sIFR: Scalable Inman Flash Replacement. This technique is replacing HTML tags like H1, H2 with a SWF that looks way better. After a normal HTML page is loaded into the browser, a JavaScript function is executed to replace the designated tags, ids, or classes with Flash objects.

This is cool because search engines still see the original H1, while users see the nice looking SWF.

Social networking website Facebook.com, got 2 new features added.
Somehow the new features freaked out members concerned about their privacy and security.

The new features include a News Feed and a Mini Feed.
News Feed is a report of what’s happening in member’s social circles on Facebook, and Mini Feed is centered round one person, showing recent profile changes and recent activity.

I like the new features and can’t see why I should be concerned about, but considering other members reactions maybe FaceBook should make some studies before adding new features :).

Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of FaceBook quickly responded to members concerns, in his own style … “Calm down. Breathe. We hear you.”.

Below is a screenshot of the scariest of the new features, Mini Feed:

If you have some time to waist, then here it is a funny-boring website: http://googlefight.com/.
There you can choose who against who to fight and then find out the results: Saturday over Sunday, salami against cheese, beer over wine, stupid against smart , rich over poor even “qooqle” against the world . Guess what? The test about “qooqle” against the world, I’ve repeated many many many times… and the same result: “qooqle” gets a big kick from his opponent… the entire world. But I think that it isn’t such a bad thing because even the entire world get’s bitten from the world only. So… go and waist some precious time!

Wildlife expert “Crocodile Hunter� - Steve Irwin, the adventurer was killed Monday 04 September 2006 during a diving expedition near Low Isles Reef because he was stung through his chest by a flat tropical fish called a stingray. Irwin was dead before an emergency helicopter arrived on the scene. He was raised at the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park and spend his entire life around animals. Everybody will miss the “Crocodile Hunter�!

 

It’s been served. The best horror movie I saw was a few years ago, when believe me, not many could scared me.

The name is “Jeepers Creepers� and more informations you can find over the internet: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0263488/ for the one in 2001 and here for the one in 2003 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301470/.

For this movie the actors were not allowed to meet themselves before filming or to see the truck with the faithful number BEATNGU in order to get a true reaction when they meet in their costumes. This is a creepy story, but it will keep you still for few hours. Please enjoy!

In case you don’t know what AFLAX is, prepare to be amazed. It’s a great Javascript Library for the Flash platform, developed by Paul Colton (also the creator of JRun and founder of Aptana Inc.).

Looking at the demos from AFLAX website I found that you can use XMLSockets to create a Real-time connection between a client and server. As oposed to Ajax or Frame based chat scripts, using XMLSockets makes messages to be more spontaneus.

If you download the library you will see that the Sockets example is using a Perl Sockets Server that has to be started from command-line. I will write that sockets server script in PHP these days so come back to get it.

Many usefull applications of this comes into my mind now, but I’ll let you think about it too .

Have fun trying out the BAC Calculator from CollegeTonight.com .

After a serious analysis, they told me that :
“Is that water in your cup? Do you think you`re cool because you`ve been pretending to drink vodka on the rocks? Your breath isn`t fooling anyone. Come here, breathe on us.”

Last night I check it out after I came from a friend’s birthday party, and here is what I got :
“You are going to text message really inappropriate things to your parents tonight. They will never give you money for leisurely activities again.”

Now … I’m OK… Realy!!!

Yes, Free!

But it’s called Aptana and it does what Dreamweaver does, and maybe more. If you think you need it download from here.

Highlights include the following features:

• Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions
• Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure
• Error and warning notification for your code
• Support for Aptana UI customization and extensions
• Cross-platform support
• Free and open source licensed under the Eclipse Public License, v1.0. (Source available soon)

A Cross-Browser website is a website that has the ability to support multiple web browsers.

I can check my website’s appearance on IE, Firefox, Opera, Netscape and other browsers, but I don’t have Safari, so I found this tool http://www.browsrcamp.com/ . Check it out, have fun, and then send an email to those guys, expressing your luve and gratitude !