This afternoon I signed up to a new web-based application from a very well-known media company. I gave them my email address and the password that I wanted to use and a few minutes later I got an email from them confirming my registration. That was fine. But then I noticed that the email from… Continue reading Basic Password Handling
Tag: tech
Templating Systems
I’ve been thinking about templating systems a lot recently. By templating systems I mean technologies that allow you to mix some data with some fixed text to produce some kind of output. One obvious use is in creating dynamic web pages where, for example, you would create a row in a table for each item… Continue reading Templating Systems
Java Programmers Embrace Ruby
Bruce Tate’s book Beyond Java has been published and there’s quite a lot of publicity for it appearing on the web. For example this article by Chris Adamson on the OnJava site. In the article Adamson interviews a number of well-known Java programmers about the future of Java. The replies seem pretty unanimous that Java’s… Continue reading Java Programmers Embrace Ruby
Spying on You
In the interests of full disclosure, I should point out that I’ve started spying on you all. A couple of days ago I added Google Analytics tracking code to a few sites I run, including this one. So now I can look at loads of pretty graphs telling me who you are, where you are,… Continue reading Spying on You
London Web Frameworks Night (Update)
The London Web Frameworks night has proved to be very popular. So popular, in fact, that the organisers have had to change venue. It will now take place in the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University. See Dean’s post for more details. This means that signup has been re-opened for the time being. But… Continue reading London Web Frameworks Night (Update)
Nasty Pop-ups
Regular readers will know that I dislike pop-up ads on web sites. But I hate the new breed of pop-up ads that go to the effort of breaking through pop-up blockers and insist on showing me pop-ups even though I have explicitly said that I don’t want to see them. You’ll also know that I… Continue reading Nasty Pop-ups
Sony Takes DRM Too Far
Here’s an interesting story from a Windows user who found a rootkit on his system. Further investigation revealed that it had been installed by Sony when he had played the digitally protected music on a CD he had bought (Get Right With The Man bu Van Zant). Sony is apparently so concerned about protecting its… Continue reading Sony Takes DRM Too Far
EuroOSCON Day 3
Late, but I thought it was worth recording what I did on the final day of EuroOSCON. As always, we started with the keynotes. Marc Heglund talked about privacy issues and the possibility of an “open data” movement. David Heinemeier Hansson talked about the secrets of Ruby on Rails and MySQL’s Kaj Arnö showed us… Continue reading EuroOSCON Day 3
EuroOSCON Day 2
Very late, but here’s a summary of what I did at EuroOSCON on the second day (Wednesday). The keynotes started with Rael Dornfest talking about how “Annenuation is the new Aggregation”. He was followed by Red Hat’s Michael Tiemann talking about quality management. We then had Jason Matusow from Microsoft nicely illustrating how, hard as… Continue reading EuroOSCON Day 2
London Web Frameworks Night
November is shaping up to be an interesting month in London. Not only is there the London Perl Workshop that I mentioned yesterday, but Dean Wilson has organised a London Web Frameworks Night on November 17th. Three experts will be discussing the major MVC frameworks for Perl (Catalyst), Python (Django) and Ruby (Rails). And it’s… Continue reading London Web Frameworks Night