Monthly Archive: April 2010

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SSH tunnel on OS X

Many companies nowadays provide a SSH tunnel to connect remotely into servers. This is a great feature as you will have your internet connectivity wherever you are and still enjoy the benefit of select tunnels. On OS X and Linux...

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The Friday Picture: Fat kids

The Friday Picture will provide you with inspirational and (de)motiviational guidance to make the approaching weekend so much more appealing:

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MTN: The death of the internet

At bidorbuy we pay special attention to performance, as a slow website will irritate our users and will in the end result in lost sales. Over the last few months we have pretty much emptied our bag of tricks and...

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James Gosling resigns from Sun

Perhaps the end of Java as we know it? James posted the following at his new blog: “…Yes, indeed, the rumors are true: I resigned from Oracle a week ago (April 2nd). I apologize to everyone in St Petersburg who...

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bidorbuy launches PayPal payment integration

It has only been 2 weeks after the official PayPal launch and we have soft-launched the PayPal payment integration on Tuesday, 6th April 2010. As far as I can tell, bidorbuy is the only South African online auction place having...

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The Friday Picture: Easter

The Friday Picture will provide you with inspirational and (de)motiviational guidance to make the approaching weekend so much more appealing: Easter is a holiday featuring fertility symbols such as eggs, rabbits, and maidens dressed in white that pagans celebrate, named...

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jQuery revolution @ bidorbuy

Over at bidorbuy.co.za we are really introducing a number of firsts in the online auction market. We obviously want to create a user-experience for our buyers and sellers to enjoy their time on our site as well as improve productivity....

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South African Post Office: We steal

I finally managed to understand the South African Post Office’s mission statement: “We will enable the nation to efficiently connect with the world by distributing information, goods, financial and government services; leveraging our broad reach and embracing change, technology and...