On September 22nd Ongame Network, one of the worlds largest online poker networks, announced that they will showcase their new Poker Platform Engine called P5.
“We decided to go to the very heart of our platform and rethink every line of code – and re-write it if necessary. P5 represents a shift in mentality as much as it represents a shift in technology. We are already very excited about what P5 enables us to – but this is nothing compared to what you will see in the months to come.” says Kevin O’Neal, Press Officer at bwin.
I just stumbled across some interesting news, or acctually a co-worker did and sent me the info.
Earlier today jQuery’s weblog announced that Microsoft and Nokia will ship products with jQuery as part of the bundle.
According to the weblog Microsoft is going to ship Visual Studio with jQuery as a complement to their ASP.NET AJAX Framework and Nokia will incorporate jQuery into their widget plaform enabling it for their cellphones.
This is good news as it doesn’t only mean that jQuery probably will become stronger from this but also that I made the right descision when I picked jQuery back when I compared it with a few other libraries. See jQuery in action at photo.nordenfelt.com.
In the body section of the CSS I wrote ‘font-size: 100%;’
If you set this to 62.5% instead you will have a 10px base for you em fonts.
The way this works is that 100% is the equivalent of 16px.
This means that 1em = 16px.
When you set the body font-size to 62.5% you actually set the base font to 10px (0.625*16=10) which will give you 1em = 10px.
In the ends this means that 1.2em = 1.2*10px = 12px. It just makes your life so much easier when setting the default font-size for your elements since most graphic design is measured in pixels.
After my recent play-around with the typography on the site I decided to stay on the topic and this will hopefully be the first real post about it in a series of posts.
For this first one I’ve only been playing with fonts, font-sizes and line-heights.
It’s nothing special really but what is interesting is that it scales with the browsers increase/decrease font functionality which, for example, the ‘px’ measurement will not properly do.
From the example it is also evident that you have to adjust the font size depending on which font you use. Also line-height is very underestimated, and frequently forgotten. All browsers will give you a default value, just like with font-size, and that value will most likely make the text on your site readable. What you have to ask your self is if you want it readable or do you want your users to enjoy reading the text?
I’ve provided a couple of examples with different fonts. I’m not saying they are perfect in any way but hopefully they will illustrate how you quickly can change the way you present your texts.
Do you remember the Hassan sketch when a guy calls the Swedish immigrations (I think) and asks if the rumour about 10,000 German homosexuals are coming to Sweden is true.
Well, tomorrow the first one will arrive.
Holger will land at Skavsta at 11:20 and arrive to Stockholm City at just after 1pm. It’s his first visit here to Stockholm so all of you that actually get to meet him, please be kind.
Oh, and by the way, he isn’t gay, I just wanted your attention
I just got back from the Coldplay concert in The Globe Arena. My legs hurt after standing in one spot for nearly three hours but I’m satisfied still.
We bought the tickets to the concert months ago and shortly after I told my sister I was going to see them and her spontaneous thought was “boooring”. At that point I didn’t really disagree with here. I’m not a huge fan but one of my friends convinced me to go along (it didn’t take much to do that) so I did. And I don’t regret it.
They never played Trouble from Parachutes and that disappointed me a bit but not much since I wasn’t really expecting them to and I would have wanted it to last a bit longer, I always do after a live concert but just over 90 minutes is a tad short. Besides that it was a great show. Their music came alive unlike when you listen to their CDs that, at points, can almost make you sleepy. Combine this with a great show where lights and video played a big part and you have one helluva party.
I did record two short bits and I’ll see if I can get them up here when I’m not in bed, otherwise i just might blog some youtube clips just so that I can sneak in on the blog and watch them every now and then
Day one of SEC-T is over and done with with mixed feelings.
First of all I want to say that I think the organisation surrounding the conference is good so far. It’s quite obvious that this is the first SEC-T ever and there’s a lot to improve for the coming years but I’m still very satisfied with how the day turned out.
The speaker list for day 1didn’t lok that exciting to me at first glance and after the first session I wasn’t impressed. It was about VMWare’s VMSafe component which is used to make Virtual Machines more secure. All in all it was a topic that didn’t really intrest me and it somewhat felt like a sell pitch. I guess the lack of interest on the topic was the real downer for me on this one though. Oded Horovitz talked very fast but at least it seemed like he knew what he was going on about.
The next speaker, Mikko Hyppönen from F-Secure, was on Organized Online Crime. Again I wasn’t expecting much but it turned out I should have. This was a really intresting talk which focused on how hackers work and how they make their money. Ofcourse Mikko talked a lot about what F-Secure do and how they fight “the enemy” but even with the product pitch this was a very intresting and rewarding talk that really uncovered a lot of new information to me. Good job!
After lunch it was time for Bosse Norgren from the Swedish IT Crime Lab. His talk focused on how the police work and what they look for during IT-Forensics. This was very intresting as he went into details about Live Forensics (on site) and what precautions they have to take at all time to ensure that they don’t compromise the evidence. You almost felt like applying for a job when he was done
Next it was time for a real sales pitch from Outpost24 delivered by Robert E. Lee & Jack C. Louis. Surprisingly enough it was interesting. They started out by talking a bit about the TCP/IP protocol. Basically the good old stuff you learned in school but a nice re-cap of what has been and what still is. After this introduction it was time for them to show their application Sockstress. Unfortunately they couldn’t disclose any technical details about it but they ran two demos and it was quite amazing.
Exploiting a vulnerability they showed us how they brought down port 80 on a web server (or actually the presentation laptop) in a matter of seconds. A typical Denial of Service attack. The next demo was even better. The started playing music on the very same laptop and then started Sockstress. After about two minutes the music wouldn’t play the way it was supposed to. It was slowed down, the CPU was at 100% etc. They then stopped sockstress but the machine never came back. It kept misbehaving even though the attack was over. What was really interesting was that both these attacks only sent 4 packages each second to the server machine. That’s nothing and could be done on a 56k modem. Scary but cool
The fainl talk of the day came from Svante Nygren, KBM (KrisBeredskapsMyndigheten). He worked with Information Security. The talk could have been very interesting but only about 15 minutes of the hour really was. There was a bit too much about KBM and not enough about IS. He did talk about the incident in Estonia last year and the similar incident in Georgia last month and that was interesting.
Time for day 2 now. Currently listening to Torbjörn Pettersson who is talking about root-kits on MAC OSX.Good stuff but I’ll get back on that topic tomorrow.
It’s hot here in Vienna. And the office is extreme. We have 27.5C in the conference room and I’m starting to feel a bit tired. Anywy, the workshop is over and I have about one more hour until we have to leave for the airport. I’ve managed to see the airport and one block around Wien Mitte., the office is literally across the street from CAT (Vienna’s version of Arlanda Express).
I didn’t bring a cam unfortunately so there won’t be any pics but I have a feeling I’ll be going down here again… They acctually asked if I wanted to move down here for a couple of months for a project. It was a joke but you could still sense that it’s a valid option if I want to. Intresting I say…
I’m off for a coffy and a glass of water now before I head back to the cold. Did I mention that it’s very sunny and roughly 25C here? Nice
