Everyone who sells software should have this information. When starting a microISV, many people do marketing the old fashioned way. Trial and error. With that in mind, I thought that many of you would be interested in knowing some statistics on things like “which day is best for downloads” or “on what day are most… Continue reading Everyone who sells software should have this information
ChoicePoint ain't the victim here
ChoicePoint ain't the victim here. I'm so freaking sick of today's headlines claiming that “hackers” somehow broke into ChoicePoint's (obscenely comprehensive) consumer databases and obtained information which allowed them to then steal people's identities. This is a story that's been discussed on Dave Farber's Interesting People mailing list since yesterday, and the truth of the… Continue reading ChoicePoint ain't the victim here
Installing Lighttpd 1.3.10 on OSX
Installing Lighttpd 1.3.10 on OSX. Johan Sørensen has put together a great guide for getting lighttpd 1.3.10 running on OS X. All the steps needed to have lighttpd serving a FCGI-powered application. This is particularly exciting now since the next version of Rails will be even better suited for running on lighttpd through the introduction… Continue reading Installing Lighttpd 1.3.10 on OSX
Novell's Open Source Collaboration Server
Novell's Open Source Collaboration Server. Novell is contributing its NetMail server code base to create a new open source collaboration server, Hula . Hula will support CalDAV, and is currently tested to be robust and scalable for up to 200,000 accounts with 50,000 concurrent connections on a single Linux server. Having this kind of server… Continue reading Novell's Open Source Collaboration Server
Microsoft forced by security concerns to fix IE browser
Microsoft forced by security concerns to fix IE browser. Bill Gates announced a new, more secure version of Microsoft Internet Explorer this week in response to general public dissatisfaction with holes in the browser and to particular worries that the open source Firefox browser was emerging as a strong alternative. Gates, Microsoft's Chairman and Chief… Continue reading Microsoft forced by security concerns to fix IE browser
Quote on Designing Software
Quote on Designing Software. A GREAT quote by Jamie Zawinski that I found in a post where he wrote about software development and the reason writing groupware is bad: If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to… Continue reading Quote on Designing Software
The Hula Project
The Hula Project. # Today we are thrilled to be launching Hula, a new project to build an open source mail and calendar server. Hula is a really exciting project already in part because we think that we can fill a hitherto-unclaimed spot in the stack of open source applications and in part because we've… Continue reading The Hula Project
Study predicts city flood threat due to warming
Study predicts city flood threat due to warming. WASHINGTON — By the end of this century, global warming threatens to raise the sea level enough that a heavy storm would send flood waters into Boston's downtown waterfront, the Financial District, and much of the Back Bay, based on projections in a federally funded report to… Continue reading Study predicts city flood threat due to warming
Gates makes waves with new IE version and free antispyware
Gates makes waves with new IE version and free antispyware. SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft plans to release a test version of a new Internet Explorer (IE) browser that better protects users from scams and malicious code while surfing the Web, Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect, said Tuesday at the RSA Conference 2005.… Continue reading Gates makes waves with new IE version and free antispyware
Pitching your ideas
Pitching your ideas. I’m guessing that many of you are like me. You have more ideas than you know what to do with them. UIWEB.com has posted an article on How to Pitch an Idea that may help you when communicating your idea to the person next to you or to the person with the… Continue reading Pitching your ideas