Back in July of 2006 someone asked on the forum for ASPnix, the web host that specializes in CommunityServer, to add ISAPI Rewrite to their servers so that customers can clean up their URLs. Seven people including myself chimed in asked for it. Over the past eight months, little was said by ASPnix except by …
Buzzwords
They say people can’t understand an abstract concept unless they have language to describe it. For example, because Tahitians don’t have a word for sadness they think of sadness as they would a physical illness. As we are immersed in a world of rapid change we need many new words to describe previously unidentified concepts. …
Can Microsoft’s Developer Division Compete Moving Forward?
I’ve been planning to blog about this for some time but just haven’t gotten to it. Well here goes… Contents Is Microsoft’s Approach Failing? After Ten Years; Too Little, Too Late? Providing Solutions Frequently Just Not a Priority Core “Real World” Problems Not Addressed Values “Sugar”-Free Over Productivity Focuses on Details, NOT the Big Picture …
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Clean URLs in dasBlog
After many long years of being annoyed by the URLs for dasBlog, I finally decided to spend the several hours required to fix them. I am using ISAPI Rewrite which I’ve spoken about in the past to allow me to clean up the URLs for my blog here that is running dasBlog. The solution is …
Announcing WellDesignedUrls.org
Those of you who read my blog know that I strongly believe in the importance of URL design. For years it bothered me that we’ve see so many URLs on the web that look like the following example of poor URL design from Jeffrey Veen‘s 2001 book The Art & Science of Web Design: http://www.site.com/computers.dll?1345,1,,22,567,009a.html …
Anti-phishing tactic helps the “Well Designed Url” cause
Today Joris Evers on CNET posted an article about the security developers for the four main web browsers discussing how to make surfing the Web safer. One of the tactics mentioned was Microsoft plans for IIS7 to show the URL in the address bar on all Internet windows to help users identify fraudulent sites. Whereas …
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Links and Discussion related (indirectly) to ISAPI Rewrite
I just found a blog post by Shirley E. Kaiser at her blog entitled Brainstorms & Raves containing an awesome collection of links and related discussion about Apache’s .htaccess. While admittedly I write mostly for an audience of developers that use Microsoft-technologies, many of the items discussed apply to Microsoft’s IIS if you use a 3rd party …
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All I want for IIS7 is my mod_rewrite!
I’ve recently been spending a lot of time pondering and pontificating on web architecture, and it occurs to me that Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS), now in it’s sixth version, is still pathetically lacking in one key feature that I think it critical for properly architecting websites. And this key feature has been part of/available …
Well Designed URLs are Beautiful!
With all the talk of AJAX these days and with my concerns about poorly implemented AJAX-based sites and what they may mean for the web, I’m once again reminded of an opinion I’ve had for a long time: Well designed URL is one of the most valuable aspects of the web. Put more succinctly: Well …