“Can you find all that you stand for
has been replaced with mountains of gold.”

If you don’t know how the web works, I’ll let tell you this:
1. It doesn’t matter how a website works
2. It doesn’t matter how a website looks
3. It doesn’t matter what a website offers

The only thing that matters is that the website makes money…..

Unfortunetly, not we (IWA/W3C) rule the web. The whole web is owned by Google. They say what’s wrong and right..
But what they consider as “right” is wrong. It’s bad for all the internet users out there and for the way they use the web.

Have a look at the Google web access recommeditions:

http://code.google.com/speed/articles/optimizing-html.html

I bet that you had this case at least once. You upload a website to IIS and when somebody tryes to open the website they are asked for authentication when they shouldn’t. The reason for this is simple: you have a problem with the file/folder permissions. Check them and make sure that IIS has access to them.

This can occur on Apache as well. In this case, the users will see a massage ‘You don’t have permission to access / on this server.’ (They won’t be asked for a password). In this case, Apache doesn’t have access to the folder or you have selected an impossible to use for www-root folder. The best think to do is check the error log.

The next operating system from Microsoft – widnows 7 is now ready. Vita’s succesor is now ready for manufacturing (RTM). It will not be available for the general public untill October this year.
I have been beta testing nearly every release by now, and since the first one I have a very good impression about the OS.
I find it much faster and better than Vista. However, I must say that some of the annoing useless staff which vista has is still here.

Unfortunately, nearly half of my holiday has passed now. Right now I am in Arbanassi, a tourist place in the beautiful Bulgarian Balkan mountain. I am staying at the Wine Palace hotel and I am really enjoying it here. It’s definitely one of the best places to go after a busy year. In the last two weeks, since when I am in Bulgaria, I have had a lots of fun. It’s good to be home!

I am now back in Bulgaria. I will stay here the whole July. Today I am 20 years old. Happy birthday to me 😉

When I tell somebody, who knows a little bit more about computers, that I am in the web industry, the next thing they will ask me is if I know the program Dreamweaver and if I use it. So here’s the answer:
Yes, I know the program and No, I don’t use it.
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“I want a woman who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.”

Henry Rollins

These days there’s been a lot going on with me. Basically, it was all parties, parties… We started with a few parties and birthdays here in the Halls on Wednesday and Thursday, than on Friday night we went to a night club, after this on Saturday noon (around 12pm) somebody wakes me up, and we all went to the Princess Park in Edinburgh. It was full of people, everybody loved the sunshine. After this, we took the train back to Kirkcaldy.
I actually missed it and I had to run after it, but thanks to the nice stuff, the doors opened again, just for me 😀 After this there were no places to seat anywhere, so I went into the first class place, and took a sit there. And just when we arrived, everybody wanted to go to the night club Kittys in Kirkcaldy, so we went there. We went there straight from the train station at midnight. Up there, I spent around £30 about vodka. Kittys closed at 3am and after this we went to somebody’s flat and the party continued there… Then at 5 or 6 am in the morning, me and a few other friends went back to the halls.
After this, they woke me up today and we went to the beach…
Now, I have to do an assessment for my flash unit.. I don’t know when was the last time, I had a good sleep.. I don’t remember..

So the last day of May, I heard some local people saying that these days are one of the warmest days in Scotland at all, so everybody here is very happy, enjoying the sunshine.

We decided to go to the beach. It was a low-tide, so the sea water was a little far away from the beach. We went to the beach in Burntisland. A lot of people from around Scotland came especially to this beach. For them this is hot weather, but it actually was windy and cold (for me). It was very cool to see Edinburgh and the Forth Road Bridge from a few miles away (I had the feeling that I could swim to Edinburgh from there 🙂
Click here to see a map of where we were.

A team from BBC came and shot the beach and us. They told us that this was the warmest place in the whole UK. So now, I am watching bbc one and I am waiting to see myself 😀

I’ll be thinking about this when I go to Sunny Beach back in Bulgaria this summer 😉

On 26th of May 2009, Alex’s two shared web hosting servers, as well as 2 more VPSes and one dedicated server have crashed. This has never happened before! (These are all web development servers and no customer websites have been effected).

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Dear colleagues,

Please help us improve the next version of the mark-up language, which the web is written in – HTML.

All the feedback is welcome from every web developer or web designer in the world.

Please visit the Ian Hickson’s blog to read more.

In August 2008, a guy from the other side of Europe, will come here alone, without a lot of money or any idea what is waiting here (in Scotland).

The thing I knew was that I will do WEB and nothing else..

When I decided to come here, I have never felt any fear from the unknown, because I am confident and I know what I am doing and what I want to do.

Today, this guy is an young man with his own, independent life. He has a very good job, studies, a very nice girl and more than everything he needs. That’s me! (Show off, why not? ;])

In August I had only a laptop, not a lot money and no idea what is waiting here.

Today, I have something like a little computer club:
These systems have one of the latest generations quad core processors inside.

Alright, that’s me going, I am gonna go to a club or pub somewhere now..

What most of you don’t understand about the web is that it has changed. The term ‘looking professional on the web’ has changed. Now a days the web is not about advertising, but it is for socialization.

This means that nobody doesn’t care and nobody isn’t interested in buying your services or products. A question for you: do you like watching TV ads or commercials? Of course, the answer is no.

Most of the businesses out there have websites, which look like a huge TV commercial, which doesn’t get the interest of the viewers.

Statements like ‘this is the best service you can get’ will NOT make anyone of your website visitors go for buying it. In web 2.0, your visitors care about your personality, they want to know more about the way you do the things, about your philosophy.

No body doesn’t go to your website with the intention to buy something from you. Your task is to make your service/product look interesting, if it doesn’t… your website is there in vane!

Right now, in San Francisco USA is held one of the biggest web conferences, known as the web 2.0 expo. Every year, on this conference, different people, relayed with web2.0 technologies introduce their new products, make important points on the web 2.0 feauture, usability, principles etc. The most inportant they try to show is how it is going to help the businesses and the peoeple and how is it going to be implemented.

More information can be found on the web 2.0 expo official website: web2expo.com