New great service available!
Create a spreadsheet, define some fields in your table and then share this spreadsheet as a form that users can fill out. When they do that, they add a line to your spreadsheet. It is pretty simple to setup.
More information on the Official Google Docs Blog.
Silverlight is now present at one of the most famous casual gaming websites: Miniclip.com. And it is a puzzle! Just my kind of game 
It is just another version of that games where you must join some pipes to complete a path. Can be entertaining though. It is called Zombomatic.
Well thought Microsoft, a good way to make people aware of Silverlight. Although putting it in a Flash gaming website looks like a desperate measure to tell every one “we’re here! Silverlight can be like Flash”. Maybe in the future. Still hard to code, and no improvement from the user perspective when compared to Flash. I’m waiting for Silverlight 2.0
In Internet Explorer make sure that you don’t have any important page open. Then open this web page in Internet Explorer. It will crash.
Just in case you don’t have Firefox, here’s the explanation that is written in the web page.
“This page crashes Internet Explorer. Why? Well a simple <span> element crashes Internet Explorer7, and an invalid onload property of <body> in IE6 is sufficient to crash it. “
Pretty scary… Imagine what you can do if you inject the right HTML into an important website… (e.g. in a article comment) Since the required markup to crash IE7 doesn’t even have script on it, it is pretty feasible.
Some time ago I’ve found an nice Silverlight 1.0 application which is now part of Silverlight.net Showcase. It is an open source configurable slide show application. The configuration is made by using XML or inline javacript (using JSON - JavaScript Object Notation).
See the live demo in Vertigo’s website. I had some issues while trying it on Firefox. The problem was Silverlight 1.1 September Alpha Refresh. So, in Internet Explorer it runs well with the 1.1 version, but to run it on Firefox you must have the stable 1.0 version.
This project is also hosted in Codeplex.
Since I’ve created this blog I’ve been using a nice Wordpress plugin to allow a nice user experience while visiting this website with a mobile device. It is called Wordpress PDA Plugin and it’s installation is plug-and-play. Since this is a blog, and probably most of the readers just subscribe my RSS feed into some reader or aggregator, this plugin isn’t essential, but is still pretty nice.
These are some screenshots from my website mobile version.
As you can see, in the homepage it removes all the images and shows only part of the text, to optimize performance. By entering into a entry details you can read the whole content, including images.
Vanilla is a free and open-source forum software easy to install and with a huge amount of add-ons.
I liked this software because the core software that you install is an simple forum. Maybe too simple for most people, because it doesn’t even bring a WYSIWYG editor. I wish that I’ve found this software some months ago. I needed to install a forum system in some client website, but they wanted something simple and fully integrated in their website design. I found a poor solution then, because I wanted to avoid PhpBB. It’s great but it was too big.
Next time I’ll give a chance to Vanilla.
