The other day I was developing small client-server application where I needed to check using Javascript on the client’s side whether active Internet connection exists, before submitting request to the server. Javascript does not allow you to do ping, and even so many websites protect against ping requests (ICMP echo), so I had to come [...]
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Posted by Alexander Zagniotov in: javascript on Jan 24th, 2009 17:26
Simon Brown, the creator of Pebble blogging tool has retired. He stepped back due to personal reasons after 5 years of leading the Pebble project. Pebble is an open source blogging tool, written in Java. The following post, is the first post when Simon announced release of Pebble. I have been using Pebble for the [...]
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Posted by Alexander Zagniotov in: pebble on Jan 21st, 2009 21:11
I am officially Australian now My long time dream to become part of this country has finally came true. It was made official on 11th of December 2008 after approximately two months I have lodged the application. The citizenship ceremony was held in Melbourne CBD, near the office of Department of Immigration, in the place [...]
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Posted by Alexander Zagniotov in: off topic on Jan 7th, 2009 16:38