Month: March 2003

XML Is Too Hard For Programmers. Tim Bray, co-author of the XML spec gets in touch with his inner geek: XML is a bouncing thriving five-year-old now, and yet I've been feeling unsatisfied with it, particularly in recent times. In particular in my capacity as a programmer. I have another quote of Tim's: “All XML… Continue reading XML Is Too Hard For Programmers

In Broadband, Comcast Lets Users Find Their Own Flourishes. High-speed service may be the future of the Internet, but most companies involved haven't prospered. Comcast is the accidental exception. By Saul Hansell. [New York Times: Technology]

Deploying Contribute to Departments or Enterprises by Macromedia; re: Contribute. [Macromedia – Designer Developer Center]

Building a Persistant Shopping Cart with PHP and MySQL by Mitchell Harper; re: Dreamweaver. [Macromedia – Designer Developer Center]

Sam Gentile outlines some of the changes in IIS 6.0.  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Revisiting the Legal Technology Primer. I've been revisiting and re-editing my legal technology articles. You might find two of them as interesting as I did. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Do Productivity Increases Generate Economic Gains?. Jakob Nielsen tackles the question Do Productivity Increases Generate Economic Gains? I've been thinking about this because of this article: Time saved—a misleading justification for KM It makes sense to save the user's time, but the justification of the Knowledge Management system ultimately has to be demonstrated by better… Continue reading Do Productivity Increases Generate Economic Gains?

Truck stops unwire: In the latest update on truck stop wireless hot spots, Columbia Advanced Wireless will deploy 1,000 truck stops with wireless networks for truckers to stay on top of their loads and schedules. So far, they have two locations listed; watch for the 998 to come. (Truck stops are a reasonable place for… Continue reading Truck stops unwire

The End of Trust?. Using Memory Errors to Attack a Virtual Machine We present an experimental study showing that soft memory errors can lead to serious security vulnerabilities in Java and .NET virtual machines, or in any system that relies on type-checking of untrusted programs as a protection mechanism. Our attack works by sending to… Continue reading The End of Trust?

PHP 4.3.2 is the one. A quick look through the bug-fixes for the soon to be released PHP 4.3.2 shows that it is actually a major upgrade. This is the version that everyone needs to warm their nights during the long chilly wait for PHP 5   [PHP Everywhere]