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• Leaner Technical Support for Web Hosts - How you can save costs in a bad economy 10 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  There seems to be no end to the bad news trickling in. From Wall street bailouts, Home foreclosures, poor spending by consumers during the holiday season and now – the downturn in the auto industry. The poor economy seems to have touched everyone, Web Hosts included.
• Two Exhaustive Free Tools for Web Developers 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  If you're a developer, or would-be developer, working on any type of web-based project, there are a couple of free resources that I recommend for following web application standards, and mastering cutting-edge web development languages.
• Missing Code Challenge 1 year, 3 months ago
  
  "Online identity management and single sign-on still doesn't work. Not well enough, anyway. OpenID is a good step forward. So are a bunch of other less familiar approaches. But we still haven't arrived .... "
• Ruby on Rails performance options grow 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Code alone isn't enough to make Ruby fast -- sometimes you need a little help.
• Microsoft and Yahoo! renew their marriage talks 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Microhoo: Microsoft and Yahoo! have pulled their chairs back up to the proverbial negotiating table. Citing an unnamed source, The New York Times insists the two giants are now in "active merger talks."
• Is SaaS a savior or 'scary' for the enterprise? 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  Salesforce.com's CEO Marc Benioff and SAP's chairman Hasso Platnner have at it in spirited debate.
• Steve Souders asks: "How green is your web page?" 1 year, 8 months ago
  
  "Writing faster web pages is great for your users, which in turn is great for you and your company. But it’s better for everyone else on the planet, too."
• Web 2.0: Unsafe At Any Speed? 1 year, 9 months ago
  
  Paul Ferguson, a network architect with antivirus vendor Trend Micro, summed up Web 2.0 as thus: "We're basically training our online users to be exploited."
• HTML 5: A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML 1 year, 9 months ago
  
  This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, HTML. In this version, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability.
• RubyStack 1.0 released 1 year, 10 months ago
  
  The RubyStack project finally reached 1.0! It is a free, all-in-one binary installer for Apache, MySQL, Ruby and the Rails framework. You basically click-click-finish your way to a complete Rails installation, including third-party modules such a Mongrel and ImageMagick. It runs on Windows, Linux and OS X and is distributed under the Apache license.
• Avoid unnecessary Ajax traffic with session state 1 year, 11 months ago
  
  Where possible, creating Web applications — including Ajax-based applications — in a RESTful way avoids a large class of bugs. However, a pitfall of REST is sending duplicate data across similar XMLHttpRequests. This tip shows how the moderate use of session cookies can maintain just enough server-side state to significantly reduce client-server traffic, while still allowing fallback to cookie-free operation.
• Facebook Defines the Web-Based OS 2 years ago
  
  Could Facebook become the next Microsoft? TechCrunch recently examined this and has their thoughts on the matter. Personally, I see Facebook as redefining the OS rather than simply mirroring successes of failures had by Microsoft. Placing them into the same category as Microsoft may actually prove counter-productive, as they are two completely different types of companies, despite any striking similarities.
• Mozilla, Microsoft drawing sabers over next JavaScript 2 years ago
  
  Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich and Microsoft's Chris Wilson are trading heated rhetoric over the proposed next version of ECMAScript, better known as JavaScript.
• I have lost my Wow 2 years ago
  
  "Last week, I mentioned that Mozilla is planning to give the Firefox browser a makeover. Alex Faaborg had mentioned that they plan to integrate the look of Firefox with Microsoft's Windows Vista and Apple's Mac OS X. The problem was Alex had failed to mention anything about the Linux operating system .... "
• Falt4 CMS massive speed up 2 years, 1 month ago
  
  Falt4 CMS, an opensource content management system, published a new major release. The main goal of the new release is mostly about speeding things up. Thus it includes a new caching engine to deliver 'almost flatfiles'.
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