Author: Vince Kimball

HttpWatch – The Secret to Optimizing Web Pages. If you have ever spent time optimizing the performance and user experience of your Web pages, then this utility may be the best $200 you'll spend. HttpWatch installs right into IE and displays a pane which exposes everything that a browser is doing when a URL is… Continue reading HttpWatch – The Secret to Optimizing Web Pages

ColdFusion on Windows Server 2003. Several people have asked recently about running ColdFusion on Windows Server 2003 (including one gentleman at the NY CFUG event last night). So, here's the scoop. Windows Server 2003 is not supported in ColdFusion MX, but will be supported in the upcoming “Red Sky” maintenance update (which will be a… Continue reading ColdFusion on Windows Server 2003

Stock icons for developers, designers. Iconfactory has designed the interface widgets for Windows XP, Netscape 6, Extensis Suitcase, Panic's Transmit, Microsoft Messenger, and many other products. Now you can afford to add their potent blend of information design and illustration to your own software projects and websites. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]

OSCON Day #2: New Features in MySQL. David is presenting MySQL's new features, covering 4.0, 4.1, and a bit of 5.0. I'm at this presentation mostly because I've been using the new features that I no longer consider them new. That means I have trouble enumerating the new features when people ask. So I'm hoping… Continue reading OSCON Day #2: New Features in MySQL

Forta Blogging. Ben Forta has finally given in to the inevitable and started blogging. Ben pretty much always has something insightful to say so this ought to be a killer blog…. [An Architect's View]

Mach II – Initial Thoughts. I've just started looking at the new Mach II framework (formerly Fusebox MX). The framework is built on an implicit invocation architecture (you can read some background to this on the Fusebox Beta website), using “listeners” and “events” and comes… [An Architect's View]

The best information filter is your local librarian [librarian.net]

Ray Ozzie talks about how mobile apps should act. Yeah! I know Chris Pirillo hates Outlook 2003, but the new Outlook is freaking awesome. It doesn't barf when you leave a wireless node. It doesn't slow you down. It doesn't crash. Why? Cause it pretends it's always offline. And wait until you see how it… Continue reading Ray Ozzie talks about how mobile apps should act

ISP helps members sell Net to neighbors. Independent broadband provider Speakeasy is allowing subscribers to resell their Internet access via wireless set-ups–turning their homes into Wi-Fi hot spots. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

OSCON Day #2: Building Data Warehouses with MySQL. I'm in John Ashenfelter's Data Warehouses talk this morning. He's an excellent presenter who really knows his material and is completely sold on MySQL. At least one person in the audience has already extolled the use of MySQL in data warehousing applications. I'm taking notes real-time, so… Continue reading OSCON Day #2: Building Data Warehouses with MySQL