Hackvalue - Tales from the trenches of specialized web hosting and development
Hackvalue is the corporate blog of Loco, a company that does lots of
interesting stuff gravitating around Free and Open Source software and
licensing, web development, and anything else that we find
interesting.
In this particular part of the blog all content is English,
but if you have no problems reading Dutch, then the Dutch part of this blog might also be interesting for
you. It caters to a slightly different crowd.
If you're wondering why we use
the name Hackvalue, please read the FAQ.
Find geographical coordinates using Google Maps (revisited)
Tags: geo, Google maps, microformats, web
Joor Loohuis, March 8, 2010, 41 views.
A little while ago we posted a short instruction on how to find the map coordinates of a location for use on a Google Map. With some new additions to Google Maps, this has now become even easier.
Adobe Flash player for 64bit Linux
Tags: browser, Chrome, Firefox, Flash, Opera, web
Joor Loohuis, February 17, 2010, 322 views.
If you're using 64bit Linux on the desktop, and you need Flash support, you've had a pretty rough ride so far. But things are improving.
Towards a better HTML textarea
Tags: browser, JavaScript, opinion, web, webdevelopment
Joor Loohuis, February 12, 2010, 296 views.
With webapplications becoming ever more important, you would think that the one control we have for entering larger amounts of text would be one of the points of attention. Unfortunately, the humble textarea has remained just that for years, humble.
IMAP IDLE
Tags: administration, imap, mail
Armijn Hemel, February 4, 2010, 245 views.
IMAP IDLE is a great addition to the IMAP protocol: whenever new mail arrives the server notifies the client and the client does not have to keep polling the server all the time.
Quick checks for PHP PEAR and PECL updates
Tags: administration, PHP
Armijn Hemel, January 24, 2010, 226 views.
Ideally all software on a system is installed via one package manager. Reality is a bit different. As an administrator you need to stay on top on updates from all software that is installed instead of relying on the system's package manager.