http://www.jazzymoon.com Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:25:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Morning, the first rays of light come through the window...   My boss comes in and says: Client !!! Do accessibility, ROI and traffic, Landing page, Adwords , ethic, Adsense, Campaign, Usability, Human resources, Deadlines, Accessibility.   Without a hesitation I go then and see the designer! I say: Apache, PHP, MySQL, C#, .NET, MS SQL!!   The designers reply: So DIVs, CSS, Photoshop, ... http://www.jazzymoon.com/buzzwords-my-head-is-spinning/17-01-2008 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome War doesn't determine who's right - only who's left. Bertrand Russell Affection is responsible for ... http://www.jazzymoon.com/86-quotes/15-01-2008 Wikia Inc., the company behind Wikipedia, has launched ‘Wikia Search’ in its public alpha on the 7th of January. It is a new search engine, and its principle is meant to be a revolution, as it is the first open-source Web search engine. Wikia Search uses ‘Grub’, an open source distributed ... http://www.jazzymoon.com/the-end-for-google/14-01-2008 I found an article by David Airey, a designer who had his website hacked last December. Mr. Airey had his Gmail account hijacked, and the cracker transferred the domain name www.davidairey.co.uk without his consent. The cracker asked then a ransom of 650$ to recover it. The technique used to hack the ... http://www.jazzymoon.com/hackers-are-still-around/11-01-2008 There are many articles concerning the subject, but I would like to have the approach of a developer. It is always a riddle to try to make the website compliant with all the browsers. But what are the constraints at the moment? The ratio between the main browsers is roughly the following: IE6 IE7 Firefox 45% 35% 15% Source: ... http://www.jazzymoon.com/firefox-or-internet-explorer/10-01-2008 Happy to New Year 2008 for everybody. Best wishes of success and good fortune! I found these nice videos for the occasion: Carte de Voeux 2008 - F&C Music: "Danke Schoen" - Wayne Newton Directing and Editing: François Chatelain DoubleYou Live Christmas Card http://www.jazzymoon.com/happy-new-year-2008/07-01-2008 This next video is about image retargeting. A little software is now available at http://www.thegedanken.com/retarget to test it. This algorithm has been invented by two Israeli researchers and allows intelligent resizing of images. This technology, also called Seam carving or liquid resize, should be available soon as a plug-in for Photoshop, ... http://www.jazzymoon.com/test-image-retargeting/10-12-2007 I have found this little game. Quite interesting, and the questions reset at every game. http://www.jazzymoon.com/traveler-iq-challenge/06-12-2007 The name of the domain is now fixed: www.JazzyMoon.com I started to customise the template. The base is Spotlight 1.3, a template of the WordPress template subdomain. I wanted to add a second ‘sidebar’ in the footer. I followed the instructions of a topic of www.blogohblog.com. For the rest, I played with ... http://www.jazzymoon.com/wordpress-template-customisation/30-11-2007 A few Chuck Norris Facts :) God wanted to create the world in 8 days. Chuck Norris gave him 7. Chuck Norris once visited the Virgin Islands, now they're just the Islands. Chuck Norris is so strong that he has no chin under his beard, only another fist If you spell Chuck Norris in ... http://www.jazzymoon.com/chuck-norris-facts/26-11-2007