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This website is just over a year, the MOOdalBox page just went over 100.000 views and I just cashed in my first AdSense payment – a fabulous $100.78 (gathered in about a year)

It’s not much, but it pays for the hosting plan of this website – which means that this site is self-sustained.

I’ve grown to about 12.000 visitors with around 30.000 page views a month.

And this, for a blog with less than 30 posts. This is a wake up call for me: I will put more time in this site, from the little I have left, after my day job and my freelance projects.

I have so many ideas, like, for instance, the long awaited MOOdalBox 2 (lots of people have asked me when it would come out, I’ve made and broken so many promises on this subject ).

To sum it up, I feel the need to thank all my visitors for spending a moment here and for supporting me on every occasion. Thanks guys

While checking who’s checking me out today, on the notorious hi5 website, I noticed one weird bug (I’m not saying that the site is bug-free otherwise, but this one is “try-it-yourself” fun): the friend request’s dates are incremented by 10 hours and.. one minute – at each subsequent refresh of the page (see for yourself: login to hi5 and click here friend requests page).

Here’s a screenshot I made (after already refreshing several times – note the date of the request, it’s already 10 days ahead):

Followed by another, one refresh later: read full article

As some of you may have noticed (and thanks to those that notified me of the errors), the site was down for two days, the forum had errors, the playground was 404

This was due to a server change I requested because of frequent downtimes on the previous one. However, the new server my site was moved to had certain features differently configured – that rendered my site inaccessible.

First was the php version, that made my WordPress installation go AWOL (had to switch from php 5 to 4 to have it work). That also lead to errors on my forum pages, but those were corrected using some tips from the bbPress forums.

The cause of 404’s on my playground folders was that my .htaccess for that folder used the directive SecFilterEngine Off, in order to disable mod_security (which, when activated, interfered with my Ajax calls). But on this particular folder, mod_security wasn’t configured and thus the .htaccess generated an error and wasn’t correctly interpreted (I used it to disable mod_rewrite in the playground folder too, in order to prevent WordPress’ rewrite rules – but since it had an error in it, the default WP rules were applied and no such page was found).

On a happier note, I just launched the “splash page” of an upcoming community website I’m working on, the one that pushed me to write the code for the vertical kwicks.

Although still in development, the long awaited MooTools 1.2 is getting closer every day. Here’s one fresh new addition to the latest dev version.

In recent development of MooTools, we’ve incorporated into the core a plugin that was once pushed under the table and neglected. The Hash is a powerful new way to extend objects just like you’ve always wanted…

Read the original post on the MooTools blog. read full article

While browsing around today, I came across a really exciting piece of news: HTML 5 (AKA Web Application 1.0) is one step closer to being released and there are lots of new elements for designers to play with.

After reading the excellent article on IBM.com, I did some more browsing around, and dugg up a few more links to information on this subject. I’ve also summarized some of the new features in this post.
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Well, after a looooong and almost hopeless wait, it’s finally here. It seems that Apple went by these famous words: “if you can’t beat them, join them !”. Since an overwhelming majority of people use PC’s, why not reach them on their own grounds ?

After some failed attempts to port Safari to Windows (e.g. the Swift! project), Apple decided to do it right themselves and released the new version of their flagship browser both on OS X and Windows !!

Of course I immediately grabbed it (Safari 3 Beta) and started playing around with it (and it was a bit of a first for me, as I don’t own a Mac and didn’t really get the chance to test it to the bone; I will get a Mac in the end, though ). read full article

The Google team have surpassed themselves once more with the launch of the new Analytics interface. The dashboard and all views are redesigned for readability, accessibility and speed. Some notable new features emerge as well. Relevant information can be reached in fewer clicks and furthermore, views can be organized to suit your own interest: the dashboard is configurable (drag and drop style) so that you can compile which data to show, to your own personal preference. They step deeper into Web 2.0 territory.

One improvement I really like is the new date range selection. Instead of choosing dates from two popups – the classic way, still available – you now have a visual selection tool – the timeline – that lets you slide over the range pretty much like an audio / video / animation editor lets you choose frames:

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