Book Excerpt: Usable Shopping Carts, Pt. 3. You can save time and potential headaches by validating your site visitor's credit card number before sending it off to the payment gateway. Our concluding excerpt from “Usable Shopping Carts” shows you how to do just that; both PHP and ASP examples are provided. From glasshaus. 0102 [WebReference… Continue reading Book Excerpt: Usable Shopping Carts, Pt. 3

Book Excerpt: Usable Shopping Carts, Pt. 2. Part 2 of this excerpt series discusses a possible credit card form display implementation in PHP/MySQL. From glasshaus. 1226 [WebReference News]

Educating Information Architects. A free chapter of Earl Morrogh's new book, “Information Architecture: An Emerging 21st Century Profession” is available on the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture site. The chapter titled, Educating Information Architects is available in PDF format. [ia/ – information architecture news]

Read this op-ed by former Industry Standard editor James Ledbetter to be reminded how the business press excused themselves and still do now, for the abuse of trust of their readers during the dot-com boom. This guy is almost contrite, almost apologizes for his failure of ethics. We're offered every excuse, we're told he was… Continue reading Read this op-ed

UPS Going Wireless. “Beginning in June, UPS will start a $20 million project to replace wearable Symbol Technologies scanners at 1,700 hubs worldwide, including Worldport, with 55,000 devices that use Bluetooth wireless technology. Once each package is scanned, Worldport relies on a network of 4-way Intel-based fault-tolerant servers from Stratus Technologies to route data from… Continue reading UPS Going Wireless

Martin Fowler: Evolutionary Database Design. “Over the last few years we've developed a number of techniques that allow a database design to evolve as an application develops. This is a very important capability for agile methodologies. The techniques rely on applying continuous integration and automated refactoring to database development, together with a close collaboration between… Continue reading Evolutionary Database Design

What Should I Do With My Life?. I found the article “What Should I Do With My Life?” in a recent issue of Fast Company rather compelling. The beginning of a new year seems like a good time to mention it. Others may be thinking the same…  Jeremy Zawodny's blog]

Privacy News from Wired News – Wired News: Year in Privacy: Citizens Lose. “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” (ed. emphasis added) Ben Franklin wrote those words over 200 years ago, and, as we reach the end of 2002, the state of important liberties… Continue reading Wired News

G, it's great to live in the future: Linksys and Buffalo squeak out their New Year's Resolutions by shipping equipment based on the draft of the high-speed 802.11g standard using Broadcom chips.  [80211b News]

My 2003 predictions: The Wi-Fi Alliance fast tracks inclusion of 802.11g and possibly 802.11i into the Wi-Fi certification program to avoid consumer confusion. 802.11g equipment becomes the minimum standard by summer, even in draft form. Apple ships AirPort 3.0 by summer incorporating 802.11a and g standards. US hot spot count tops 25,000 by year's end,… Continue reading 80211b News