The 1913 Webster defines “cheating” [http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=cheating] as: > To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle. However, it’s certainly not cheating if you get a really good bargain. Such as the one being offered…
The real story for 2007 will be the continued migration to open, accessible data formats. 2007 is already shaping up to be the most exciting year since the community drove off the XML highway into the Web services swamp half a decade ago. XQuery, Atom, Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), XProc,…
Stumbled upon this great library of database models/schemas [http://www.databaseanswers.org/data%5Fmodels/] (searchable [http://www.barryw.org/dba/pi_data_model_search/index.asp]) for a vast number of business scenarios from auction web site to asset management to search engines.…
Just a quick roundup of OpenID [http://openid.net/], which I’m sure will have wide-spread acceptance and usage in the user management space for both web-based as well as software applications. OpenID [http://openid.net/] is a decentralized system to verify one’s online identity. On OpenID-enabled sites, Internet…
Update: I have released the PHP source code for the PayPal donation FeedFlare I wrote. Please feel free to use it (edit as needed, and host on your server). You can find the source code at the end of this blog post. FeedBurner [http://www.feedburner.com/], the processor for…
What to do if MySQL keeps crashing [http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/crashing.html]…
When Firefox [http://www.getfirefox.com] 3.0 is released later this year, the open-source browser is likely to support an interesting new feature called offline web applications. This will be a significant move because you’ll be able to use your web apps (like Gmail, your online calendar, an…
There are numerous articles on how to go about earning revenue from your web site or blog. There are several online services and programs that let you monetize from your web site or blog, but for a self-starter it is often hard to make the right choice. So I’ve…