Strange and weird, but true! I was totally surprised yesterday to read that the upcoming version of Internet Explorer has successfully passed the Acid2 Face test. As you understand, these good news allow web developers to reasonably hope that IE will soon become (hopefully, in a few months) a standards-compliant browser.

Don’t get me wrong, but it sounds like a good joke to me; Internet Explorer becomes a standards compliant [...]

After three months of absence and inactivity I am back. Every once in a while, I need a little break almost from everything in order to refresh and organize my self as well as to take a look forward in my life.

A lot of things happened during the last three months. Once again, I abandoned an open source application which meant a lot to me but I still hesitate to [...]

I just received my first SMS spam message in english by “Mr. P. Chan”

Att: I’m Chan from Hong Kong, I have a business proposal for you, should you be interested kindly contact me for further details partickwchank@yahoo.com.hk

Regards

Anyway, back to work

Update: I keep getting these annoying messages from several persons around the world that have an interesting business proposals for me I may change my cellphone number.

My adaption process in Cyprus was smoother than I expected. After three weeks home, I feel like that I never left Cyprus despite the fact that I still get frustrated with some things. A great example of these, are ATMs which their operational mechanism has been altered recently.

In fact, some ATMs provide your money first and then your credit card which I find very [...]

After returning home this night I had a look at my web stats which are running on Cinnamon; an open-source web statistics engine that I am developing. According to Cinnamon, the number of visits has tripled during the last day while 7 visitors were online! Initially, I thought that my latest commits made [...]

My studies in the UK are almost over and in two days time I will be flying back to Cyprus. It goes without saying that during this year I have enjoyed and hated particular things regarding the UK. So, I decided to compile a list with all the things that I am going to miss… or not!
I will miss…

doing almost everything online and especially all the great services such [...]

It is well known that cross domain AJAX requests (XMLHTTPRequest) are not permitted due to security reasons. Numerous workarounds exist such as cross domain JSON and Flash but some of them are not suitable for every single case. For instance, cross domain JSON assumes that remote server is able not only to serve JSON but to include [...]

Finally, after a couple of weeks waiting I got the approval for hosting one of my WordPress plugins in the official repository. It’s been a while since I have prepared the first major version of “Clickable date” plugin but I was waiting for this moment to publish it!

In brief, this version aims to make things much easier for you guys since it is no [...]

Today I decided to spend £13.00 and order a set mini cards from the popular service MOO – We love to print. I found the interface pretty simple; it took me less than five minutes to choose the background images (from my Flickr account), crop them and personalize my card. However, I would like to be able to further customize the text on the card and particularly to use [...]

Recently, I was having a look at the most popular Web Operating Systems (also known as WebOS) such as EyeOS and YouOS. Some of them look really impressive, some of them are bit ugly but the raising question is: Do we really need just another operating system inside our browser?

Personally, I can’t see any use in the concept of Web Operating Systems at the moment. As many [...]