Wednesday, March 22, 2006

GPC

Hari ini gw dpt invitation juga akhirnya dari Google Page Team buat nyoba fitur barunya Google.

Google Page itu sebenernya web authoring tool dan hosting web gratis kayak geocities. Gw udah lama gak liat geocities sih, tp seingat gw sih mirip2 aja...

Hasil testing gw sampe sekarang bisa di liat di... http://adeanom.googlepages.com/home baru simple page aja sih...

Ada bbrp kekurangan dr google page ini (gak tau deh emang lom ada atau gw lom tau tempatnya). Misalnya gw lom bisa naro CSS di antara block tag head, jadi baru bisa sebatas inline CSS doang.

Tapi setelah masuk ke groups yg ngebahas GPC (Google Page Creator) ini di groups.google.com, byk tip buat ngerubah CSS atau bahkan masukin Javascript atau Video... tp masalahnya itu gak bisa dilakukan oleh editor GPC langsung, tapi haris manual kita tambahkan sendiri (download, edit, dan upload lagi).

Testing lagi deh tar...

Friday, March 03, 2006

Upgrade VS Downgrade

I believe everyone who know about the IT world would understand that every technology is always moving forward, whether it's slowly as a slug or as fast as a rocket.

The same thing also going the same way in building application. We are often try to update our product to catch up with the other technology. Especially if that product used other product that is always evolving.

In my current job as a Developer, I've found a couple of application that I need to modify or even re-develop. What I always keep in mind, that is, when developing an application I try to use the latest stable library.

Why? That because I believe the latest one is sometime have a couple (maybe very important) of improvement.

But recently I've found one product that somehow I hate very much. Simply because it doesn't compatible with the latest release of MySQL 5... (not even MySQL 4.1). Even though that product is just launched a few months a go, but I still don't get it why the developers still using the old MySQL.

I don't know what happen, since I can't examine the code behind it. But maybe it's using the old MySQL library. Arrggghhh....!!!! That's why sometime I hate proprietary software.

And what made me more upset is, I don't see any intention from the developers to upgrade it. But I guess they would do it if the client who bought that product requesting to upgrade it, with an extra charge of course...