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Google Chrome for Linux

On Monday I downloaded Google’s Chrome browser for Ubuntu to test it out (against all warnings).
I’m happy to say that despite the missing features, this browser is absolutely amazing on Ubuntu. It’s lightning fast and very stable. I can’t browse to pages that require HTTP AUTH — but that’s the only thing I’ve found that [...]

Read the full article → June 10, 2009

Poor programmer’s website monitor

If you manage your own web site, it’s critical to know when there are problems, and hopefully you’ll know before your users do. There are several enterprise-grade server monitors and website monitors available ranging from free to expensive, but if you need something right now that’s simple and free, you might consider the solution I [...]

Read the full article → May 26, 2009

Follow-up to “How will it end?”

I finished reading Almost Perfect (mentioned here), a first-person account of the rise and fall of Word Perfect by Pete Peterson. Pete was one of the founding members of the company that changed the concept of word processing from one of dedicated machines such as Wang to the concept that we now know — specialized [...]

Read the full article → April 16, 2009

Meet in the middle

I’ve been struggling with an overall concept for quite some time that relates to web development and web usage. The problem is that for all of the great innovations that have already occurred since Netscape made the internet accessible, there is still a long way to go before an average person can truly participate in [...]

Read the full article → April 14, 2009

Sometimes, the web is scary

It’s true. Sometimes just participating online is intimidating and scary. There are the stories of identity theft and cyberstalking and phishing. Even the terms are intimidating and scary.
Today I received (yet another) phishing message. This time, however, it didn’t come through email. This one came to me as a meeting reminder on Google Calendar. It [...]

Read the full article → February 19, 2009