Archive for June, 2003

JavaWorld has announced the winners of the JavaWorld 2002 Editors’ Choice Awards. These are the results (with my predictions ;)) Best Java Data Access Tool: Winner: Oracle 9iAS TopLink Finalists: CocoBase Enterprise O/R 4.5, Hibernate 1.2.4 My prediction: N/A Best Java IDE: Winner: IntelliJ IDEA 3.0 Finalists: Borland JBuilder 8.0, Eclipse 2.1 My prediction: Borland [...]

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Judging from this thread titled Your Age at SitePoint Forums, the web development and web design world is full of young talent. Patrick O’Keefe (iFroggy) is only 18 but runs a webhosting business, a webdesign business, and is webmaster of many popular communities. Marc James (mjames) is 17 and runs a successful sports-related site at [...]

A quick update on the last post. It seems I may seem to have made Mozilla browsers seem disadvantageous in an IE-centric world. Well, you can always get past those sites that reject non-IE browsers with the User Agent Switcher extension that allows you to spoof your user agent as IE (or Netscape, or IE [...]

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mmj at SitePoint Forums has pointed out a link to a page that lists websites entitled ‘Sites that make Mozilla sad‘. Those sites apparently aren’t too interested in the Mozilla/Netscape user population, catering only to Internet Explorer users *gasp*. www.kingfisher.com has this to say: To view the full Kingfisher plc site, please install a new-generation [...]

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Just a quick update – I’ve since been using Thunderbird and was pretty surprised to notice that it seems to integrate with FireBird on its own. I got an email notification with a small notice box popping up at the bottom-right corner of the screen, like how it is with MSN messenger. Thunderbird was not [...]

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