I hosted this site on my own server before moving it to sourceforge. At that time, I used a free, lite version of WebLog Expert to generate site traffic information from the Apache log files. It was good.
Of course this method no longer works as I do not have access to the log […]

Ajax is hot. Some people even claimed that web applications, or web apps, based on this technology will one day dominate the market. Many people retold Sun’s motto some years ago: "Network is the computer." And suddenly, Google, with its rich "lab" of web apps, becomes the most threatening enemy of Microsoft.
For security reason, browsers, […]

Google have launched their "universal database" service, called Google Base. The service is semi-open now. I am yet to be able to access it, but according to people that can use it, this is what Google promise:
Google Base is Google’s database into which you can add all types of content. We’ll host your content and […]

Gmail has really changed its name to "Google Mail" officially - but only to the users in the UK.
Even the logo has to be changed: vs.
In addition, all new signups from the UK will be assigned "@googlemail.com" addresses. Although existing accounts will be able to use either domain for now. […]

Because of a new law suit, Gmail might not be able to keep using the name Gmail.
This is an old news, and Google have already done something to “unload” the name. The changes have been done quietly that the general public may not notice, but not to us developer. For example, because of its change […]

Gmail has further extended its support in other languages. Now you can check your spelling in, not just English, but also French, German, Italian, Dutch, etc.
Unfortunately, no “word checking” for Chinese at this moment.

Once again, Google introduced a new feature to Gmail silently. You can now select your outgoing message encoding in your Mail Settings panel. By default, Gmail determines what encoding should be used for you, or you can force it to be UTF-8.

This new feature may not be very significant to English writers, but to people […]

While analyzing Gmail’s data transferring protocol and data structure for our development of libgmailer, we sometimes see hints or clues suggesting “hidden” new features of Gmail that Google programmers could be testing or developing at the moment.
For example, I was checking Gmail’s “send mail” protocol for fixing some bugs and implementing the new “send as” […]