I’m at the Fox Theatre in my hometown of Atlanta today checking out the Adobe AIR Bus Tour Summer 07. It’s nice to be at the first event nationwide. I’m attending at the behest of a friend who thinks it going to be the "next big thing." I’m skeptical. I fear yet another proprietary attempt …
Microsoft’s Obsolete Process and Release Cycle
I made two posts recently that muddled serveral issues so I am creating a seperate post here to isolate them and provide a location for comments specific to this issue: Microsoft is loosing the battle with its open-source competition in languages and web frameworks because of their obsolete processes and release cycles In summary, it’s …
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The Weborati
Just who are the “Weborati“[1] you ask? And where does the term come from? Well, to answer the latter question, It’s a neologism that just made up; please don’t shoot me for it. :) As for the former, they are people who either created – starting with Tim Berners-Lee – who have passionately shepherded the …
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 …
Great Article: 8 steps to serving better (X)HTML
Earlier today I blogged about Tantek Çelik’s talk at The Future of Web Apps so I decided to mosey on over to his blog. There I found this gem: 8 steps to serving better (X)HTML
Microformats: hCard
One of the things I learned more about at The Future of Web Apps was Microformats. The talk on Microformats was given by Tantek Çelik who is CTO of Technorati and it was easily one of the more interesting concepts covered at the conference (to me, at least.) I probably appreciated it so much because …
Simple Solution to Phishing Epidemic?
Call me simplistic, but it seems to me that there is a relatively simple solution to the phishing epidemic, assuming those in control of the Internet would like to stop it. Since almost all phishing emails using a hyperlinks something like http://www.MyBigBankName.com.bad_guys_domain.info/login.html, eliminating it would be a simple as ICANN cancelling domain registrations for anyone caught …
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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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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