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IP2C is a small library that provides IP to country resolution. It uses the free ip-to-country database. IP2C takes the database CSV file that is about 4mb and converts it into a ~600kb binary format and provides PHP and Java frontend to query the database.
The library is great, easy to convert an ip to a [...]
Several weeks ago, while working on JavaRebel AI Module, we accidentally gave it access to our web server. Before we found out it rewritten all of our blog platform in COBOL. We are not sure where did it learn to program that, but when we tried the new platform, it was excellent. Not only is [...]
Although two weeks late, I finally noticed that Mozilla Prism has been updated. Mozilla Prism is a “One Site Browser”, which is to say a browser started from your desktop tied to one particular web site. I have been using it since the first release, mainly to separate the Google Mail, Reader and Calendar windows [...]
WP plugins (like the others already have — FF extensions, Eclipse plugins, Google Gadgets, WARs …) should have a solid structure so that the management of the plugins could be automated. One click install, update notifications or automatic updates, public repositories and other cool features can be built upon this.
Sometimes a technology appears that is just so damn cool you are amazed. More often than not the ideas behind it can be quite simple.
Aptana Jaxer is exactly such a technology. There is nothing new about having a server-side API. There is nothing new about building applications in HTML and JavaScript. The genius part is [...]