Web Standards Project: “All we've asked Macromedia to do is ship Dreamweaver with the ability to create standards-compliant pages. It can't be that difficult; as you've seen, the technology is already there.”
Month: August 2001
Mark Pilgrim:
Mark Pilgrim: “Groove is an overkill solution in search of a problem.”
Firewalls
We need a new firewall / NAT / VPN box for the office. If you know about these and could recommend one, please email me. [Update: thanks to everyone who wrote in. I think we're going with the SonicWall XPRS2!]
[Joel on Software
Firewalls We need a new firewall / NAT / VPN box for the office. If you know about these and could recommend one, please email me. [Update: thanks to everyone who wrote in. I think we're going with the SonicWall XPRS2!] [Joel on Software]
Reworking Online Work
MIT Technology Review: Reworking Online Work. Q&A with Ray Ozzie. From a personal perspective, our goal has been to create an environment that securely brings together the right people, the relevant information, the appropriate tools to manipulate that information, at the right time–whether spontaneously or over a long period of time. [Tomalak's Realm]
PgMarket 1.5.2 (Development)
PgMarket 1.5.2 (Development). An e-commerce solution based on PHP4 and PostgreSQL or MySQL. [freshmeat.net]
The World's Information Desk
Web Techniques: The World's Information Desk. Q&A with Craig Silverstein, Google's director of technology. Our goal is to make all the world's information available, not just that information that happens to be in HTML form. Supporting PDF was our first step towards expanding past HTML, and we plan to have others. [Tomalak's Realm]
The eyes have it
BBC News | SCI/TECH | The eyes have it. New research backs up the potential of automatic iris recognition as a security tool to replace keys and personal identification numbers (Pin). [Privacy Digest]
Whatis: The Map To Better Web Searching
Whatis: The Map To Better Web Searching. Gary Mosher proposes a “whatis” database for easier informative queries about domains. Whatis would include available site characteristics like news and discussion, that would make finding the type of site you want easier, and help researchers map the Net. 0810 [WebReference News]
Judges switch off Web surveillance
Judges switch off Web surveillance. From TheStandard.com: “Judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco are protesting the use of software within the federal court system that monitors Internet use on employee computers — including those of its judges.”… [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
Untitled
Got back late Tuesday from a great trip to Philadelphia. Had never seen the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall.