Into the ether…. Now it seems the other shoe has dropped at Userland, and the rules have changed. Dave Winer is the founder of Userland (Userland is the company that makes Radio, a weblogging application) and is now a fellow at Harvard Law’s Berkman Center. In June, Dave lamented that the New York Times had… Continue reading Into the ether…

Draw your own conclusions. But nearly 100% watch television. Frank Davies in the Philadelphia Inquirer: War poll uncovers fact gap. Excerpts: A third of the American public believes U.S. forces have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, according to a recent poll. Twenty-two percent said Iraq actually used chemical or biological weapons. But such… Continue reading Draw your own conclusions

SJ Mercury: Former FCC chairman's plan: broadband in every home. Dan Gillmor. A serious national broadband policy — designed to bring 10 to 100 megabits of information per second to every home — would be as crucial an economic-development and infrastructure tool as the roads of the previous century, Reed Hundt said at the Supernova… Continue reading Former FCC chairman's plan: broadband in every home

Shared Hosting Has Inherent Risks. Someone posted a message on cf-talk today that quickly mushroomed into a discussion on shared hosting and the related security risks. There is nothing wrong with shared hosting, and for many applications shared hosting may be the right choice (due to the low cost). But such an environment does have… Continue reading Shared Hosting Has Inherent Risks

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]