Archive for June, 2009

MOTB – Month of Twitter Bugs

mm_twitterThe month July is probably going to be an interesting month for everybody who is familiar with the Twitter service.

On Aviv Raff’s website you can read a new daily bug in twitter. The cool thing is that he will give Twitter 24 hours to manage the bug before posting it on his blog. This means that, if we are lucky or Twitter is unlucky, they don’t manage to fix this bug, we can try out all bugs.

I wonder if this is legal in the first place to post harmful information about a website, in this case Twitter. What they actually can do is tell the world how to get Twitter crashed or how to really annoy the developers. I know that, being a developer, it is handy to have some good testers, but the difference with a tester is that it stays confidential information. Besides some attention, Aviv Raff will not get much out of this and in that case it might be better to cooperate with Twitter and get some recognition from them.

In 2006 there was a ‘Month of the Browser Bugs’ with the same intensions but on a browser level and it seemed to be a ratter big success.

The question is: Will Twitter survive those 31 days and if they can stay one of the leading websites on the level of networking?

If there are real security issues and problems in the core of the system, I guess those bugs won’t be fixed in 24 hours. I’m not the only one thinking this, as there are on the other blogs and news sites a lot of people sharing my opinion. What do you think of this issue? Feel free to comment on this post!

Besides those thoughts it will be very pleasant for us to follow all issues and see how this case evolves…

The month July is probably going to be an interesting month for everybody who is familiar with the Twitter service.

On Aviv Raff’s website you can read a new daily bug in twitter. The cool thing is that he will give Twitter 24 hours to manage the bug before posting it on his blog. This means that, if we are lucky or Twitter is unlucky, they don’t manage to fix this bug, we can try out all bugs.

I wonder if this is legal in the first place to post harmful information about a website, in this case Twitter. What they actually can do is tell the world how to get Twitter crashed or how to really annoy the developers. I know that, being a developer, it is handy to have some good testers, but the difference with a tester is that it stays confidential information. Besides some attention, Aviv Raff will not get much out of this and in that case it might be better to cooperate with Twitter and get some recognition from them.

In 2006 there was a ‘Month of the Browser Bugs’ with the same intensions but on a browser level and it seemed to be a ratter big success.

The question is: Will Twitter survive those 31 days and if they can stay one of the leading websites on the level of networking?

If there are real security issues and problems in the core of the system, I guess those bugs won’t be fixed in 24 hours. I’m not the only one thinking this, as there are on the other blogs and news sites a lot of people sharing my opinion. What do you think of this issue? Feel free to comment on this post!

Besides those thoughts it will be very pleasant for us to follow all issues and see how this case evolves…

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new PHP meeting

PHPBelgium is pleased to announce our first meeting in Mons!

Date:  24/06/2009 19:3023:00
Location: ISIMs, Mons, Belgium

The event will be recorded and available in live streaming on this url: www.isims.be/phpbelgium.html

If this link wouldn’t work, more information can be found on the website of CampusNumerique

Schedule:
19:30h Welcome & drink
20:00h PHP & the MVC Pattern – Patrick Allaert
Patrick Allaert is Competence Center Architect at AUSY where he brings 10 years of PHP development experience. Patrick is also known by the community for developing APM as well as evangelizing for Free and Open Source Software
21:00h Break
21:10h PHP 5.3: new features – Davide Mendolia
Davide is a veteran PHP developer working at AUSY as a PHP Software Architect. In his spare time, Davide works on APM too as well as contributing to the PHP project with benchmarking tests
22:00h Quizz to win goodies/conference tickets
22:15h Socializing and networking

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an infinite image carousel

One of my favorite blogs is that of jQuery 4 Designers and this time he created a cool tutorial on how to create one with jQuery.

It has always been a struggle to create a nice carousel but i think this guy managed to create a real cool one. Also one of the most interesting things about this website is that all the code he writes in jQuery also works after disabling JavaScript. Try it!

for more information and other cool tutorials you can visit his website: jQuery4Designers

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