The Distributed Adsense Machine

Google Adsense ads are getting more hits than any web page in the world wide web. This is because of the fact that many of the web pages in the wild carry adsense ads. Adsense ads are so wildly distributed that they are more distributed than any other software. And they are controlled from a central server too.

What can these ads used for other than being pure distractions in a webpage? Can we build a Distributed Adsense Machine from them?

Find out in the article from Diovo: The Distributed Adsense Machine

How to take HDR photos using your mobile phone camera

So you don’t have that expensive camera to capture pictures in RAW file format?

Don’t worry. You can capture HDR photographs using your mobile phone camera. 

Read the tutorial on diovo: HDR Photography Using Mobile Phone Camera

Internationalization of Dates

Is your software truly global? 

Do you use international date formats?

Read more on diovo.com: Use International Date Formats

Blogger Sucks

Do you like blogger.com as a blogging platform?

Is it really good? Read the article at diovo: Blogger Sucks

Native UI and Opera

Read the article on the importance of using Native UI styles in your applications. The articles gives the example of major web browsers and how they manage the UI styles. The article: Native UI and Opera

The Advertiser’s Dilemma

Do you advertise for your competitor? Do you spent money to boost the revenues of your rival?

Read the article at Diovo: The Advertiser’s Dilemma

The Best Way to Fail

Murphy’s law: If anything can go wrong, it will.

It is true.

So true that we hear of it everywhere. We take precautions to manage failure. We have remarkable exception handling mechanisms in our programming languages. In spite of all our efforts, systems fail. So what should a system do when it is going to fail?

Read the article in Diovo technology blog: The Best Way to Fail

Google Captcha Getting Tougher and Unreadable

The Google Captcha is getting a lot more complicated, and at times it becomes difficult for even humans to recognise it.

Read the article Google Captcha for Aliens on Diovo

The Privilege of Commenting

How good is your commenting policy?

And what about the process of commenting on your blog? Is it easy enough?

Read the article: The Privilege of Commenting on Diovo

Microsoft IE8 and the Default Behavior

From the latest developments it looks like IE8 will default to the IE7 behavior. It will render websites in the original IE8 mode only if a special meta tag is inserted into the webpages by developers. I have already written about this pathetic solution of version targeting. In addition, I think the defaulting to IE7 behavior has some other far reaching consequences.

Read more here