Happy New Year, my dear readers! This year was not too happy and good as I expected. Some bad things happened. Nevertheless I more or less satisfied with 2007. Hope 2008 will be much-much better!
Best wishes for your and your family!
Found interesting photos about winter tram in St Petersburg 100 years ago:
One hundred years ago winters in Russia were much more severe. They were so severe that in St. Petersburg they have opened a tram that went on ice of Neva river from one bank to another for 0.03 ruble price
More photos can be found here.
I know, I know, I delay a bit with that news. My favorite DJ Armin Van Buuren is Number #1 DJ in the world according to DJ Magazine top 100. Sure I voted him as many fans of its amazing radio show A State of Trance. I wait for the new episode every week to listen the best trance in the world.
Armin Van Buuren:
BBC developers has announced its own Perl MVC framework – Perl on Rails. As you can understand from its name the new framework is similar to Ruby on Rails. The BBC Programmes was developed using the Perl on Rails.
Actually, there is a few Perl MVC frameworks like Catalyst, Ganty, Maypole or Jifty. If Perl on Rails will be released as open source it’ll make the popular program language more attractive to develop enterprise applications.
Finally K-Cineplex got a new web site design. It was very annoying to watch every time stupid flash intro. But the link to skip it was placed inside the flash. So, in any case you should wait for the its loading. The new design looks a bit unusual (for sure, it’s a new) but professionally. It isn’t fully web 2.0 but very near.
P. S. I use K-Cineplex site to see what movies are played currently and what are coming soon. The quality of picture and sound is definitely much better in the Rio Cinema and Othello.
Linux-based Internet Tablet Nokia N800 is very popular. Even coming N810 is not going to replace it completely (I’m not talking about windows-based Origami). Using Maemo SDK it’s fairly simple develop new applications or porting existing ones. For sure to be success you need a right documentation. Following article from IBM.com explains obviously how to use N800 camera API.
P. S. The easiest way IMHO to setup Maemo development environment is downloading the Maemo SDK VMware Appliance. It can be run with free VMwave Player which available for both: Linux and Windows.
