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A List Apart: Much Ado About Smart Tags. By adding smart tags to web pages, Microsoft is interposing itself between authors and their audience. Microsoft told Walter Mossberg “the feature will spare users from 'under-linked' sites.” Microsoft is in effect deciding how authors should write, and how developers should build, websites. [Tomalak's Realm]

David Winer: Here's an idea we've been incubating for six years. In Frontier, if you put a name in double-quotes that it knows, it does a replacement. This glossary is hierarchic, so it loops out levels until it hits the root, so you can over-ride global definitions locally. A one-level version of this glossary is… Continue reading Here's an idea

David Winer: I'm working on a new thing I call #upstream.xml. It's a spec you drop in a folder that tells Radio how to route changes to the folder and its sub-folders. I've been getting ready to do this for at least a year or two. It's tricky code, I'm writing it slowly, but it's… Continue reading Scripting News

Kmart and Martha's Wonderful Match. Martha Stewart wares will be available exclusively in the land of the Blue Light through 2008. [The Motley Fool]

Nicholas Petreley: “You can't compete with Microsoft without first making a deal with Microsoft over something as basic as where your customer's data is stored and how one must access it. If that thought doesn't bother you, given Microsoft's abuse of its authority in the past, then by all means, embrace what you must view… Continue reading Nicholas Petreley

ZDNet: Red Hat Tux 2.0 blows away Apache. In the case of eWeek Labs' Web server benchmark, Red Hat Inc.'s Tux 2.0 Web server running on a Linux 2.4 kernel has taken performance far beyond what was previously possible and blazes the way for future Web servers built on the same architecture. [PHP Everywhere]

Some great Florida web sites: Sunny Days Key West Westwinds Key West Conch Republic Seafood Alice's Restaurant Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Truman's Little White House Historic Site Kelly's Bar and Grille Peppers of Key West Tommy Bahama's Sarasota Wet Noses Sarasota Went to some good places that don't have web sites. Will try to say more… Continue reading Some great Florida web sites:

Sunny Days Key West

PHP Evolve. The author says: PHP Evolve is the ultimate PHP development environment, like Macromedia Ultradev the developer does not need to have guru knowledge of PHP to start developing PHP based Web Sites. All of the PHP functionality is encapsulated inside the PHP Evolve IDE. Drag and Drop code snippets from the Code Explorer.… Continue reading PHP Evolve

Back from a great trip to Sarasota and Key West!

Raw Sockets are not a Security Risk: Chris Wysopal responds to the New York Times article about Steve Gibson's unfounded and hyped concern about Windows XP containing raw socket functionality. The “powerful Internet-connection capabilities” which is hyped in this article is merely the ability to write raw IP packets. This capability, which this article states… Continue reading
Raw Sockets are not a Security Risk: