I blogged about dasBlog 1.9 on Friday and was planning to upgrade, but I’ve been monitoring the developer list and it seems there are still a few too many little problems to make upgrading a smart proposition, at least for me. Better to wait a bit for the dust to settle.
The White Man’s Web 2.0 Club
After attending The Future Of Web Apps, I looked around for fellow attendee bloggers and while searching found Chris Messina’s post about the lack of diversity in the speaker lineup. Several commenters then started getting riled up to the level of a virtual lynch mob with comments like: Damned if I’m going to give hundreds …
The Virtualization Wars Begin: Microsoft Virtual Server is Free!
It’s nice to be correct. Or at least to suggest something that Microsoft ends up doing. :) A few months back I suggested Microsoft give away Virtual Server, and today they are announcing just that! Good deal. Let the virtualization wars begin! :) P.S. Now if Microsoft would just support the VMware hard disk format, …
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Windows 2003 Server Web Edition doesn’t support SQL Server?!?
I am setting up a new computer running VMware GSX Server (because the new free VMware Server is still in beta) for which I plan to use one of the virtual machines to run a few websites including a DotNetNuke website that stores its content in SQL Server. So I decided to install Windows 2003 Server …
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Microsoft Still Doesn’t Get It.
Microsoft Still Doesn’t Get It. I just read the article on C/Net News.com entitled Microsoft pitches Web tools to hosting companies. I saw this and got excited: An update to its Web hosting program is designed to make the combination of Microsoft server products more attractive to hosting companies, which often use Linux and other open-source …
Servers for End Users
I just read an editorial that peaked my interest because the concept has been in back of my mind for a while. The editorial was entitled "Microsoft Should Make Servers Compelling" and is rare for a Dave Coursey editorial in that it was not just a soap-box rant. David basically stated that Microsoft’s cash cow Office …
BaseCamp Project Management: Blinded by Ideology
Some people just don’t get it. They are so caught up in their own blind ideology they won’t consider alternative views. I’ve been looking for a reasonably-priced web-based project management system for quite some time, and yesterday I thought I found it: BaseCamp from 37Signals. Problem is, after an email exchange with the founder Jason Fried, …
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Is Google becoming a Monopoly?
I really love using Google for search, for news, and for my default home page. I think they’ve done an awesome job of really meeting users needs when many others can’t or won’t. I also expect to see them rapidly grow and expand into new lots of areas. As a technologist, I’m really looking forward …
Is Using JavaScript to Emulate Clicking an HREF a Bad Technique?
Arshad Tanveer just commented on my post Well Designed URLs are Beautiful! Arshad felt I was being “a tad too harsh on links triggering JavaScript.” Well he was right; I was being harsh. But I was being harsh on purpose! My reason for being harsh on using JavaScript instead of basic HTML hypertext was to …
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AJAX: A Panacea, or a Pending Train Wreck?
As a former MapQuest user, I find Google Map’s interactive interface built with AJAX (a combination of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) really cool and lots of fun to use. And Google’s GMail, also built with AJAX, has a nice snappy UI that’s much better than Hotmail. And the more websites that adopt AJAX techniques the …
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