March 2002 Archives

My Dog Spot March 30, 2002
If you have ever lived near a Cal Worthington car dealership, chances are you’ve seen...

Wrong Firewall March 23, 2002
Moreover’s "edited" computer security feed has a link to a story called "More heat for...

AOL product not good enough for employees March 23, 2002
Some time back AOL Time Warner dictated that all employees would use a custom version...

Writting helpful error messages March 21, 2002
The job of an error message is to inform the user of a problem and...

Warships and software March 21, 2002
What does the accidental sinking of a 17th century warship have to do with software...

Software Lemons March 21, 2002
Most product manufacturers are held responsible for ensuring their products work as advertised. Software companies...

NYT in Radio March 20, 2002
So Dave’s been bubbling about some new thing that Userland is doing. "You’ll think differently...

Mod_rewrite for IIS March 20, 2002
One of the most useful features of Apache is mod_rewrite, a module that allows Apache...

Cutting through Web Services hype March 19, 2002
Over at ZDNet, some Gartner analysts discuss the hype and promose of Web services, and...

Shopping Cart Usability March 17, 2002
In Shopping Cart Usability, Barbara S. Chaparro examines usability factors of the online shopping cart....

Criteria for success March 16, 2002
The Rational Edge | Understanding the Elephant: "I once refactored some badly written code and...

Web Services Articles March 16, 2002
The cover stories at both New Architect Magazine and The Rational Edge are on Web...

How to manage estimates March 16, 2002
The Rational Edge | How Late Are You Gonna Be?: "I believe that a well-managed...

Consumer preference vs. RIAA March 16, 2002
Most successful companies are driven by the needs and desires of their customer base. After...

Comment March 16, 2002
I’m catching up on some old reading, so some of toady’s links have been around...

AOL to use copy protection on CDs? March 13, 2002
It looks like AOL Time Warner may be planning to cripple audio CDs that they...

Design This March 12, 2002
Business 2.0’s "Cool Design Won’t Save a Dud Product" is a study of how products...

TextAd Exchange Changes March 11, 2002
There’s a new version of the code behind the TextAd Exchange. In addition to some...

Rule of thumb March 6, 2002
The more awards a personal Web site has, the worse the site....

Ignoring Security Alerts March 6, 2002
When a programmer found a security hole in Guess’s Web site that allowed him to...

Wireless Notworks March 5, 2002
Despite lots of hype, strong consumer interest, and cheap bandwidth and hardware, wireless networks are...

Secure Code March 4, 2002
I read a review of what sounds like an interesting book, "Writing Secure Code" by...

DCMA goes to court March 4, 2002
In their case against the government over violation of the DCMA, Elcomsoft plans to argue...

Blackberry phone March 4, 2002
If RIM starts making one of these in the pager-size formfactor, I’ll replace my Palm...