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Author: gpanther

  • Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0

    Read it here: Web 2.0 Thinking Game. Check out also Create your own Web 2.0 Company. Web 1.0: Writing. Web 2.0: Rating. Hey, at least I’m Web 2.0 😉

  • Is your IT department doing this?

    While the subtitle of the newspaper is laughable (The independent voice of the Microsoft IT community), I think that the article is very nicely written: IT Gone Bad.

  • Web Developer Stereotypes

    Sitepoint did a survey amongst web developers and found that people who use PHP are very likely to try Ruby on Rails. While I haven’t completed the survey myself, I find that I’m in this exact same position: I’ve been developing in PHP for several years now and plan to check out Ruby, however I’m…

  • Just a fun post

    Engineering Definitions.

  • Quick port forwarding guide

    It always gave me a headache when I tried to figure out the command line syntax of ssh for port forwarding and I ended up staring at the man page for several minutes and making drawings on a piece of paper. So I’ve put together three illustrations for the three possible port forwarding methodologies. The…

  • Microsoft did it again!

    I usually try to avoid being fanboy or MS basher, but there are some moments when you can’t stand it anymore! What triggert this post was Paul Thurrott’s post on Vista’s new license, however this was just the last drop. Some stuff that irritates me: At home I dual boot between Ubuntu and Windows 2k3…

  • Picking the brain of the IE7 team

    Martin McKey over of at the Network Security Blog is going to meet the IE7 team and is waiting for proposals regarding the questions he should ask them. Here is mine: First let me give a little background as I see it so that if they choose to answer my question (no offense, but if…

  • Hack the Gibson – Episode #61

    Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. And here it an other episode which starts out great and is at average better than the previous episodes, but still some mistakes slip in. About the new, as of yet unpatched Windows flaw: I couldn’t find any information on it, so I’m not sure…

  • I have a career, not a job – a very true post

    The Network Security Blog / Network Security podcast is one of my sources of information. Today I’ve found this very true post there.

  • How to publish a good looking code on Blogger?

    This article is considered obsolete. Please read the followup post. From time to time I would like to publish a post in which I can show code snippets. However the standard <code> or <pre> tags look way too boring. Something with color stands much more out. I was thinking: if I had my own server…