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The IE7 team replies – sort of
As you might remember Martin McKey very generously offered his readers the chance to post questions which he will ask at the IE7 release party. Well, he went he asked and as I’ve predicted he got a canned response. I felt that this was partially he didn’t insist on it – and I can’t blame…
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Hack the Gibson – Episode #62 – sort of
How to have your cake and eat it too? Sorry for the lack of posts recently, but I’m just swamped at work and I also have to buy books from time to time. However I can say that I have several javascript and perl goodies prepared and soon I’ll post them The recent show was…
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What to do if you have many TIME_WAIT connections owned by the system process?
If you have a Windows machine which acts as a server and it have many connections per seconds, you can get in the situation when you have a lot of half-open connections owned by the system (PID 0) process. To resolve this if the communication hosts have high speed connections with one another (like a…
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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 😉
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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.
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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…
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Just a fun post
Engineering Definitions.
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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…
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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…
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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…