Archive for December, 2009
Does British Airways train its New Jersey Attendants?
This year for my Christmas trip I will have the pleasure to fly oversea with British Airways. Although I have taken many of their planes in the past, it was always for short trips, and I never tested first-hand if their in-flight experience really justifies the usually higher prices. Their reservation website definitively got better [...]
Sockets Connection without Listen()
Today, invited by an apparently impossible condition that showed up on OneRiot‘s servers I pushed my good friend Alessandro to prove me wrong. And as usual, in about 15 minutes, he did. The odd condition was the following: server A was listening on a port and server B was connected to it. We turned off [...]
PubSubHubbub: a 1987 idea with HTTP/XML and Peer-to-Peer Sprinkled on It
If you read tech blogs like ReadWriteWeb or TechCrunch you probably have heard of PubSubHubbub, a distributed publishing method recently announced by the Google’s folks: PubSubHubbub. Tech bloggers are going crazy about it and wrote thousands of posts without really knowing what it is and who will benefit from it. It is one of the [...]
New Google Interface: Bubbly like Ask3D, but I like it
It seems that after the usual gazillion of user testing the folks at Google finally settled on a new shiny search interface. In short, I like it! We have to admit, the choice of colors, the shape of the buttons, and the use of big text resembles a little the Ask 3D interface that we [...]
