Submitted by yehuda on Tue, 01/10/2012 - 15:04
I had a project done for a client, where I needed a code to run again every second, since cron-tabs work every minute I use an inner function to keep the code running.
I did it for them before, I used the simple sleep function, but this code needed a more precise timing, i can't miss a second of data.
So I came up with a simple function that solves it:
Submitted by yehuda on Wed, 12/28/2011 - 05:44
I stumbled into Google Chrome extensions made by various providers, that viciously use the Pre-Install option in order to stay even when the user uninstalls it, every user will get highly annoyed by this "Feature".
After getting annoyed myself by one of them (Shameless mako.co.il) I looked it up.
Apparently, the pre-install keys exist under this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Google\Chrome\Extensions
Or here for 64bit operating system
Submitted by yehuda on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 07:05
I guess that by now you already heard, read or any way else got to know about the weird terms Microsoft puts in front of application developers for Windows Phone. if not, read about it at Jan Wildeboer.
Here is the highlight: Microsoft says no to open source licenses or programs based on libraries that are under open source licenses. and they even mentioned GPLv3 as an example.
Submitted by yehuda on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 19:49
As part of my work on Qliqa, I bumped in to the fact that Facebook blocks embedding itself in HTML frames, instead it provides the Facebook logo and a link to the location you tried reaching.
Submitted by yehuda on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 15:09
Lately many of my friends on Facebook found out that applications can indeed be harmful. messages were sent in their name, chats were opened with other friends inviting them to go to a specific link.
The only good deed I could have done is send them back the link to the apps management page and explain them that they need to remove all apps that are not useful.
So after looking around the Facebook interface for a link to fast removing apps, I created this script.