Our previous platform is dead, would you like to invest in our new platform?

I am not sure whether the person who wrote this email is mentally retarded or if he’s just being a typical Microsoft robot-like employee. In all cases I really can’t see the funny part in this joke, they send you an email officially declaring the death of Windows Marketplace for Mobile 6.x and in the …

Meet the new flash killer : Adobe!!!

While a lot of tech-savvy people think that apple’s decision of locking flash out of its idevices might have been the biggest blow on the head flash has ever received, I tend to disagree and I think the biggest trouble Flash is facing is Adobe’s wrong decisions and strategies for the flash platform. yes folks, …

Proinsulin, importance of C-peptide

A student of mine asked me about the usefulness of C-peptide in proinsulin, after some googling, I landed on this piece of information which seems to answer this question. The answer is in the last line. Proinsulin is synthesized as a single chain, 110 amino acid (aa) preproprecursor that contains a 24 aa signal sequence …

RU486

A common mistake regarding RU 486 is saying that it decreases the secretion of progesterone. RU 486 does not interfere with the secretion of progesterone. It is an antagonist of progesterone, which means that it simply blocks progesterone receptors and prevents progesterone from acting on its target cells without actually lowering its concentration in the …

Arabic text from mySQL database using amfphp

I had this issue where arabic text and french text retrieved from a mySQL database were not displaying correctly in my flash frontend, I was using amfphp to communicate and query the database. Needless to say that the text does display correctly in phpMyAdmin so it is correctly encoded in the database itself. So here’s …