Nothing is more painful than making a technical presentation to a bunch of folks who don’t really get it or care about details like performance or security. The author of “A Big Case of …OOPS…” was suffering through just that situation when things took an interesting turn. He was talking web site vulnerabilities when one …
Monthly Archive: February 2010
Feb 22
Facebook Chat Everywhere
A couple of weeks ago the Facebook folks announced their support for Jabber/XMPP. If you’re a Facebook fan this is a big deal as that announcement opens up FB chat to all of the multi-protocol IM applications. No more having to endure the web-based version. If you’re a Pidgin user, as I am, check out …
Feb 20
Farewell Google Gears
Remember Google Gears? (previous mentions) As a way to run web applications when not connected it sure seemed like just the ticket. Well, don’t get too attached — Google will be dropping support for it. And yeah… that about sums it up. Hello HTML5. If you’ve wondered why there haven’t been many Gears releases or …
Feb 20
PleaseRobMe.com
Here’s a thought on privacy that I think more people should think about: Does the world need to know where you are at all times? Or put differently, do people need to know where you aren’t? The people behind PleaseRobMe.com don’t think so. While you’re tweeting where you are at you are also sharing that …
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