Archive for the 'Code' Category

Practicing Good Form

In the beginning, there was “mailto:” and it was good (or at least functional to a point). Then Matt Wright graced us with the Perl script we all know as Form Mail for collecting and validating the users input.
Initially FormMail was touted to be a feature-rich, fully-functional send-mail script that would (and did) revolutionize the […]

W3C releases first draft of HTML 5.0

Today the HTML working group published  the first public working draft of HTML 5 — A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML.
Some of the most interesting new features for authors are APIs for drawing two-dimensional graphics, embedding and controlling audio and video content, maintaining persistent client-side data storage, and for enabling users to […]

Microsoft relaxes Vista Virtualization Rules

Microsoft has lifted its ban on enabling Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium in virtual machine environments.
The company announced on January 20 its decision to add the two new SKUs and planned to update its end-user license agreement to reflect the change.
(Microsoft was planning on making the announcement at 12:01 a.m. on January 21, […]

Open Source’s Non-Problem with Interoperability.

It’s really funny, though a bit pathetic, to see the media pick up a theme and run with it. In this case, it’s the idea that open source has problems with interoperability, and that it’s somehow crimping open-source adoption. This is ironic because proprietary enterprise software has had this problem for decades…and still does. In […]

Naming Websites: Whatever have we done?

Could it possibly be true? Has all wit and cleverness already dried up in the naming of Web sites, less than 15 years after the Internet was opened to the public?
In the beginning, Web sites announced their own names. You pretty much know what you’re going to find at Sears.com, Staples.com, McDonalds.com and Microsoft.com.
If you […]