Entries written in July 2007

Written July 23, 2007 in punditry

I read this morning on read/write/web that (mt) is launching a dedicated server that can be split into several VPSes. This is probably RHEL5 using their Redhat Cluster Suite. (Update: Bad blogger, no cookie — it’s Virtuozzo.)

Not a bad idea, (mt). I’d buy one to host clients on, or to …

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Written July 20, 2007 in punditry, webdev

Welcome to the dark side of Web 2.0. Facebook spam is becoming more prevalent, and the Facebook team doesn’t seem to be doing anything about it.

In the marketplace, you’ve got offers for MLMs targeted to students. Get rich quick schemes, nigerian schemes, etc. — all of it seems to be …

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Written July 13, 2007 in reviews

“Download All Attachments” — I’ve got no idea how long it’s been there, but it’s awesome. It’ll download a whole set of attachments as a zip file.

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Written July 7, 2007 in punditry, reviews

Ok, I’m an Apple fanboy. I love my new Macbook, I loved my old powerbook. I love my iMac at work. I’d really like it if I could try out an xServe for 45 or 90 days like the Sun promotions run.

But I didn’t buy an iPhone, and since it …

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Written July 6, 2007 in php

The PHP community has started promoting GoPHP5 — a website devoted to promoting the move to PHP5 and dropping compatibility with PHP4.

The site complains that “PHP 4 is still installed on a majority of shared web hosts.”

Want to know the reason for that? It’s cPanel, folks. Most shared web hosts …

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Written July 1, 2007 in meta, reviews

For my consulting business, I’ve switched from SideJobTrack (which hasn’t been updated/bugfixed in six months…) to Freshbooks … Freshbooks is tons better from an invoicing and payment point of view, and there some features I love, but I have a few minor beefs with their time clock system.

Features I love:

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Written July 1, 2007 in punditry

I work at a major university, which means that websites I produce are required to conform to Section 508 standards for accessibility. One of the things we often want to use with campus services are captchas, which are a way of displaying a human-readable (but hopefully not machine-readable) image and …

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