70 posts tagged with technology
The IEC saga: an early warning to other national standards offenders
As a long time advocate for best practices in web design, W3C standards compliancy, and the open source movement, this quite simply blows my mind on so many different levels:
The Independent Electoral Commission will spend R3 million to fix its broken website as complaints mount.
Wow!
Allow me to first provide an overview of the events leading up to this latest … view full post
OpenDNS
For the past few months, my online experience has been interrupted by web sites not loading the first time around. Or to put it more technically, the DNS servers of my ISP weren’t resolving the IP address of the host name (or at least I think that’s what was happening). So I’d have to hit reload a couple of … view full post
TECH4FRICA 08
In late 2006 I blogged about an effort to generate interest and support for a web and emerging technology conference for Africa.
Well, the Technovated team (who were kept busy with the impressive Kindo) have now put plans into place, and TECH4FRICA 08 is coming to Johannesburg, South … view full post
One Rule to rule them all
I own a number of parked domains that all redirect to this site. The redirection is handled by some Rewrite rules in my Apache server’s root .htaccess configuration file. For example:
# redirect domain.co.za
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.co.za$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://coda.co.za/$1 [R=301,L]
What bugs me is that I have to add these lines for each … view full post
Thoughts on mnmlsm
In Mark Pilgrim’s recent post on Minimalism, he rationalises the simplifying of his blog design by completely removing all superflous and redundant functionality from his pages in favour of the tools natively supported by the web browser itself (a modern one, at least). His list includes:
- No page titles in favour of the browser window’s title bar
- Feed Autodiscovery in
Microsoft, Red Hat, and South Africa’s OS strategy
Not even a week after Jason Matusow, Microsoft Director of Corporate Standards, wrote on his blog that South Africans don’t understand Open Source Software or how to benefit from it, Linux vendor Red Hat have announced that they’re to open an office in South Africa. Via Tectonic:
Starting Monday Red Hat will have an SA-based country manager who
TECH4FRICA 07
A web and emerging technology conference
We’re trying to figure out whether there is demand for a web and technology conference in Southern Africa, and we’d really appreciate your help if you can spare a few minutes.
We’re convinced that there should be web and technology growth in Southern Africa, so we’re really interested in getting together a
K750i digital zoom false claims
I’ve been considering the Sony Ericsson K750i to replace my current T310 (which has become slower and buggier with age). My choice is for 3 simple reasons: it’s compact, feature-rich, and is sexier than Clifton on a good day.
I feel like a lot of people with a digicam, the 2mp … view full post
Amazon.com open a software development centre in Cape Town
Online retailer Amazon.com has opened a software development centre in Cape Town, a statement issued by the company said on Tuesday. The centre will create innovative web services and help software developers build innovative applications using Amazon technology.
It is the third centre of its kind in the world, with the other two in Scotland and India.
Chris Pinkham, managing director … view full post
Breaking the Gigapixel Barrier
Breaking the Gigapixel Barrier, by Max Lyon.
This page contains what I believe to be one of the highest resolution, most detailed stitched digital images ever created. It is the view from Bryce Point in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. It consists of 196 separate photographs taken with a 6 megapixel