Month: October 2001

PHPDeveloper.org. PHPDeveloper.org is a web site by enygma that covers a lot of PHP issues. There is some overlap between this site and PHPDeveloper at times, but the focus is slightly different. Php.weblogs.com links to articles that interest me, so this site is mostly about advanced PHP, and covers .NET, IIS and ASP occasionally. PHPDeveloper… Continue reading PHPDeveloper.org

Knownow raises $15 m more in funding. — Much of what Knownow does can be done via UserLand's Radio.  The approach is a little different.  Knownow is a centralized solution.  It keeps a connection open between a browser and a central Website so data can be pushed and pulled (Microsoft has a varient of this for ASP). … Continue reading Knownow

Economist.com – No hiding place for anyone. Embedded in bank notes or designer labels, the “mu-chip” can beep out the owner's location and details to marketers and thieves alike In today's information age, everybody leaves an electronic trail in their wake. With every credit-card purchase, ATM transaction, telephone call and Internet logon, they create an… Continue reading No hiding place for anyone

SANS Resources – The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities (Updated). The Experts' Consensus Version 2.100 October 2, 2001 A little over a year ago, the SANS Institute and the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) released a document summarizing the Ten Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities. Thousands of organizations used that list to prioritize their… Continue reading The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities (Updated)

Build Web Cred. Business 2.0 Oct 3 2001 2:09AM ET [Web developer news]

Joshua Allen – Today, Brian Valentine called a meeting about our response to Gartner's negative comments on IIS security. Many people think that Microsoft is an ivory tower where we ignore our customers. These people might be surprised to know that literally thousands of e-mails have been flying around on internal mailing lists about what… Continue reading Better Living Through Software

WSDL wizard, pocketSOAP update, SOAP/XML-RPC on MacOS, new Wrox book. Activity on the XML protocols front continues apace, with Phalanx System's WSDL wizard for COM, SSL support in pocketSOAP, XML protocol support in Applescript, and a new web services book from Wrox. [xmlhack]

Jabber Everywhere. Jabber, Inc. has released a free, 100-user version of its commercial server. [JabberCentral]

The Economist: Safe keeping. To see how expensive this would be and to solve some of the uncertainties associated with preserving digital documents for centuries, Brian Cooper, Arturo Crespo and Hector Garcia-Molina at Stanford University are building the grand-daddy of all digital warehouses, the Stanford Archival Vault. [Tomalak's Realm]

MIT Technology Review: Brave New World for Higher Education. Michael Schrage. Anyone who cares about the future of software needs to understand market trends as much as digital design. Similarly, anyone who genuinely cares about the future of higher education must accept that market forces are now as critical as technological innovation. [Tomalak's Realm]