I’m excited as I just got my express delivery of Wrox’s Professional Web 2.0 Programming by Eric van der Vlist, Danny Ayers, Erik Bruchez, Joe Fawcett, and Alessandro Vernet. I’m anxious to read it to learn their take on programming for Web 2.0. I first learned of the book when I noticed in my logs …
InstallPad – It coulda been a Contenda! (and still might be…)
I came across an interesting piece of software called InstallPad via SDTimes "News on Monday" email newsletter. InstallPad is designed to download and automatically install applications on Windows machines. Relatedly, ever since I first installed FireFox I was very impressed with what a great design they had implemented in their add-on updater. I believer that …
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Salesforce.com’s URL Structure
For those of you interested in Salesforce.com and their URL structure, useful for making bookmarklets, I documented Saleforce.com’s URL structure over at another blog I maintain entitled Thoughts on Salesforce.com. I also copied that documentation over to my WellDesignedUrls.org wiki with plans to maintain in on an ongoing basis.
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 …
I Am Excited about IIS 7.0!!!
I just read Rick Strahl‘s article in CoDe Magazine entitled Get Excited About IIS 7.0 and, yes, I am excited! Finally an architecture that makes sense! If (indirectly) addresses my #1 wish for IIS7: a mod_rewrite functionality. Well, it doesn’t address it per se, but it allows me, or any other .NET developer to address …
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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AJAX: It Shouldn’t Just Be All About the Developer!
After seeing Eric Pascarello’s thread at ASP.NET forums entitled “AJAX – Is it Hype? Is it for you?” I decided to post a thread at ASP.NET forums with a reference to my post from July entitled “AJAX: A Panacea, or a Pending Train Wreck?” UkBtlog responded so I’m blogging my reply below: UkBtlog states:I think …
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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 …
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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