With Cowengate fresh in our minds, and people wondering why the Gardai are trying to track down a hilarious artist instead of doing other valuable things, here’s a funny video from the guys from Langerland.
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Ryanair have made yet another cost-cutting move which is an industry first – they’re moving to Web Check-In only from October. However, it doesn’t seem clear from their press release whether it will be free or not to check in on the web, or whether a new check in charge will be part of the fare structure from May.
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Via Dries Buytaerts website, news that open source stuff is secure enough even for Governments to use. Barack Obama has been doing loads of great things over in that there America since he came into office, and he’s decided to get a site going – Recovery.org – to keep US citizens up to date with their progress. And the wonderful Drupal has been used to get it up and running. This is a big thumbs up for the open source community, as previously governments have leaned towards bloated, expensive solutions with silly maintenance contracts to ensure data is ‘secure’ and so on. Maybe some day our wonderful Irish Government will outsource technology infrastructure jobs to open source developers who won’t rip them off.
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One of the coolest features about Drupal is the ability to run heaps of sites from the same codebase. However, if you’re a total wacko when it comes to SEO and want to do absolutely everything to help get your site well indexed by Google, it can be difficult to figure out how to get Drupal to manage non-www to www redirects effectively. Because Drupal runs from one codebase, there is just one .htaccess file in the directory holding the main Drupal code. You could just copy the .htaccess file and place it into your /sites/sitename folder, but if you have hundreds of sites to manage, this could be a pain in the ass. So, what do you do?
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Sometimes it doesn’t pay dividends trying your best to be responsible. Last Friday I drove to a friends house for a few late drinks, and being in a very responsible mood decided to leave the car overnight outside on the street, and pay for the next mornings parking in advance (as one can do most of the time). When I was leaving (about 4am), I went to the parking meter to pay for a few hours in advance - I think Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council start charging from 8am or so for parking in Dun Laoghaire on Saturdays. Alas, the meter gave me an error, and wouldn’t issue me with a ticket. I’d no idea where the next meter was – it was dark and I was tipsy – so I thought i’d leave it and figured they’d realise the meter was broken. It was, after all, right beside my car.
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Some time ago I expressed my anger at Screenclick from an affiliates point of view, as they’d changed their site to incorporate Microsoft Silverlight but it was pretty much a requirement to use some controls on the site, and slightly offputting to the user. Finally, they’ve managed to see the light (pardon the pun!) and integrate Silverlight as an optional extra, and in a more subtle fashion. They’ve also dropped the pointless spash page on the site, bringing users direct to the action – the DVDs they’re renting.
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I’ve noticed quite a lot of emails coming through over the past few weeks from various merchants – mostly UK based to be honest – cutting commission rates by a couple of percent, some with a particular focus on cashback sites, but more often than not the commission cuts are across the board. But why?
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Whilst checking out some news on Breakingnews.ie, I noticed they’ve started using Google Friend Connect to help engage with their site visitors and provide a slightly more interactive experience. Whilst this is certainly a step in the right direction, I’m just wondering if maybe they should have chosen Facebook Connect as their social platform provider of choice. Why?
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If you’re an affiliate of any kind, chances are you’ll need to regularly download datafeeds from on or many affiliate networks to keep your information up to date. This can be a complete pain in the rear end for even the most seasoned developers – solutions to the problem include manually downloading each feed and then uploading it to the server (not a happy situation with hundreds of feeds), to writing complicated shell scripts with hundreds of lines, which you’ll have to execute server site via cron and take up heaps of memory in the process. Several months ago, I found a great solution to a boring problem – FTPiggy.
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Despite much fanfare about video on demand in various territories, we’ve not really seen much of it in Ireland, and even in the UK uptake isn’t what it could be. A lot of this is down to broadband speeds in Ireland (or lack thereof), but over in the UK with Virgin Media offering 50mb broadband, what is the future for watching movies online? Do we still rent from the video store? Do you rent from dvd rental companies? Do we watch whatever Sky movies have on at any particular time? What if any movie you wish to watch you could do so for free, instantly, and without getting up from your seat? Hulu.com certainly looks like a sign of things to come.
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