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RewriteEngine Tutorial. Needed to do some fancy footwork with htaccess and rewriting urls for redirection. Found this tutorial on yourhtmlsource.com, which so far seems pretty simple to understand and helpful. [scriptygoddess]

My first book: the art of project management. The new book from O'Reilly on how to lead and manage software development, from a ten year Microsoft veteran. [uiweb.com]

BitTorrent 4.0.0 Released. BitTorrent 4.0.0 is released for Windows and Linux. The Mac OS X version is pending. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

SMB Nation ISV Summit – Day 2. Day 2 of the ISV Summit was much shorter, and much more intimate. About 50% of the people had early flights and didn't attend much. I argue that the nice weather, combined with a Friday afternoon makes it difficult for even myself to sit in a chair. The… Continue reading SMB Nation ISV Summit – Day 2

BitDefender bug bites GFI.. BitDefender bug bites GFI. Email wipe-out GFI's Mail Security anti-virus product threw a wobbler Wednesday afternoon (2 March) when an update to BitDefender Engine Module caused it to delete the body content of every incoming and outgoing message. The engine – one of three used by GFI MailSecurity along with components… Continue reading BitDefender bug bites GFI.

Why We Need Network Neutrality. Vonage, the leading independent US VOIP provider, has complained to the FCC that a broadband access provider is blocking the ports it uses to provide service. I and others have been raising concerns for some time that broadband platform owners will use their control of the physical and logical layers… Continue reading Why We Need Network Neutrality

Today's fun stats. Some fun facts from the two keynotes I attended at the Wharton Technology Conference today: Lou D'Ambrosio of Avaya and Jeff Weiner of Yahoo! In 1998, the average Web search query was 1.2 words long; in 2004 was twice as long (2.5 words). Weiner (who heads up the search business at Yahoo!)… Continue reading Today's fun stats

How to produce good software from Graham Glass. Graham Glass has an excellent series on producing several software products. All of the information is based on his personal experiences and he describes how each company is founded in a way to avoid having to take on investors while still creating a viable company and product… Continue reading How to produce good software from Graham Glass

From the Isn't-It-Totally-Obvious Department. Business 2.0 wonders why Sequoia Capital invested in a startup founded by the 19-year-old who turned Mozilla into Firefox. Isn't it obvious? Adware. The best place to bake it in is in the browser itself. He who controls the browser gets the money, now that Google has broken the barrier. The… Continue reading From the Isn't-It-Totally-Obvious Department

Sysinternals Freeware – Utilities for Windows NT and Windows 2000 – RootkitRevealer. RootkitRevealer is an advanced root kit detection utility. It runs on Windows NT 4 and higher and its output lists Registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a user-mode or kernel-mode rootkit. RootkitRevealer successfully detects all persistent rootkits… Continue reading Sysinternals Freeware – Utilities for Windows NT and Windows 2000 – RootkitRevealer