Posts tagged with: webdev

Links of interest for 9 Mar 2010 - 21 Apr 2010: C language inventor spurns Google's language exam - Hey, maybe Google has a point, maybe Ken's gone crazy and forgotten everything, but highly unlikely. Apache Foundation Hit by Targeted XSS Attack - Wow!! What a detailed account of what happened. It's quite refreshing to see such an open account of a system hack. Nobody Killed OpenSolaris — Stop the FUD! - Nice to see someone outside of Sun/Oracle is actually seeing sense. Multicore requires OS rework, Windows architect advises - Errmm, I must be missing something here: doesn't Solaris... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 3 Jun 2009 - 14 Jul 2009: "Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?" FUD - Thankfully someone's being sensible about the FUD that made it's way into the news this week. Oracle is not going to kill OpenSolaris. Oracle's Virtualization Gold Mine - Looks like Oracle is counting on Virtualization big time. Time will tell what they do with all their net technology. Microsoft will soon unveil free anti-virus software - Kind of ironic, yet potentially a brilliant business plan: you produce some software that becomes an easy target for viruses, then release your own... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 29 Jan 2009 - 12 Feb 2009: Stop developing for Internet Explorer 6 - I couldn#039;t agree more. I stopped checking all of my site in IE 6 years ago. I#039;m not a web developer by profession so I don#039;t need to keep everyone happy. If you#039;re running old and backward software, that#039;s your problem, not mine. Saving Big Money With Open Source Storage - OpenSolaris and ZFS saving someone#039;s money and ass. Countdown (actually up) to the UNIX Epoch time being 1234567890! - It#039;s amazing how excited techies get about the simple things ;-) Sun... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 14 Nov 2008 - 1 Dec 2008: Replacing high-end Unix with enterprise Linux? Not so fast - It's nice to see some people are actually looking at the merits of Solaris 10 and it's Containers (aka zones with provisioning) in comparison to a Linux/VMware alternative. Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD Benchmarks - Interesting benchmarking of these 3 popular operating systems, and believe it or not OpenSolaris (or Slow-aris as it was once coined) does pretty well. Code Instructions: Java Performance - A good read if you still have doubts about Java's performance. Java is much much... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 3 Sep 2008 - 11 Sep 2008: 10 Principles of the PHP Masters - Some very useful PHP tips here. Some new, some old. Google restores Chrome's shine - That's better. Now you can still keep ownership of everything you already own. Hadoop Live CD at OpenSolaris.org - Distributed computing on a LiveCD. What a great way to test the waters without actually having to install anything. Happy 5th Birthday, DTrace - Wow!!! DTrace is 5 years old already. Wow time flies. Burned by Chrome - All your bases are belong to us. Not the nicest... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 12 Aug 2008 - 3 Sep 2008: Carpetbomb bug tarnishes Google Chrome - Ooops. How on earth could the Google chaps have missed this one? Google Chrome Considered Harmful - Hmmm, the bad news about Google Chrome is starting to come to light now. Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project - Oooo, sounds like Firefox may have a new competitor. Now how long before we get a Solaris/OpenSolaris version? iPhone passwords not worth the paper they're written on - Ooops. This certainly won't help Apple make inroads into the business market. The latest Xeon and OpenSolaris -... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 10 Apr 2008 - 29 Apr 2008: easySMF at OpenSolaris.org - Cool. A web based tool for easy SMF manifest creation. Simply enter the various bits of information, generate the XML file and import it into SMF. Much quicker and easier than writing it all out by hand. Sun: Trying to do the right thing - It's nice to see someone actually seeing things from Sun's point of view, without actually being a Sun employee. Well done. Sun looks to free up the rest of Java - Nice one. Ultimate HTML Color HEX Code List by... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008: 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage - And the award for Best Filesystem goes to... ZFS, naturally. No other filesystem has been as innovative, with such wide spread adoption, recently. Official ZFS on OS X Page - Your source for bleeding edge ZFS on OS X from one of the ZFS developers at Apple. 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Platforms - And the award for the Most Innovative Server OS goes to... well, Solaris 10 of course. Who else? shimmer - A great alternative to port knocking,... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 11 September 2007 - 27 September 2007: The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes · plaintxt.org - Some of the best minimalist themes I've seen. 5 tools every PHP programmer should know about - Some very interesting tools here. Can't say I'd have a use for all of them, but certainly a few. It's time to pay attention to Sun's x86 server biz - This can only bode well for Sun if The Register is praising it's new x86 machines. A lot of potential Sun customer's read El Reg, so this is a nice bit of free advertising.... Continue reading ►

I was reading through Derek Sivers' article on why he switched back to PHP after slogging away are Ruby on Rails for two years, when I stumbled upon something I didn't know and have actually been looking for (though I haven't put much effort into it yet)... autoloading objects in PHP. Continue reading ►