Google recently fixed a glaring vulnerability in gmail that allows an attacker to forward copies of all or some of your email to themselves by adding a filter to your gmail account. But not before someone lost their domain name to an attacker who then proceeded to try to sell it back to them for […]
December 25, 2007 | Code | 1 comment
A Microsoft quote from an NY Times article I’ve already cited has been bugging the crap out of me. It bugged me when I first blogged about this article and it bugged me as I wandered around B&N last night doing the last of my xmass shopping. I wound up in the management section and […]
December 23, 2007 | Code, Innovation | No comments
Phil Bogle wrote recently about an awesome image resizing algorithm. I found out via a welsh view what happened to it. It’s been launched as a website called RSizr.com and is also available as a Gimp plugin called Liquid Rescale. It’s really really cool to see this amazing algo take the open source route. It’s […]
October 1, 2007 | Code | No comments
I have this little 64 bit dual core opteron that I’m busy torturing with way more traffic than it’s creators intended. I sometimes edit code on my live servers – only when I’m sure it’s not going to break anything and only when I’m wide-awake and fully caffeinated. Today I tried to edit a file […]
September 24, 2007 | Code | No comments
I started work on this at 4pm and it’s now 2am. It’s called FEEDJIT and it’s a little experiment. If you like it go ahead and install it. A few minutes after I post this it should be in the sidebar of this blog. Mark.
August 16, 2007 | Code | No comments
I couldn’t find any docs on compiling mod_perl2 alongside php5 with apache 2.2, so hopefully this helps someone. I’ve always statically compiled mod_perl into apache, but the easiest way to get mod_perl to play nice with PHP under apache2 is to compile them as DSO’s or dynamic modules that are inserted at runtime. I’ve tested […]
August 1, 2007 | Code | 4 comments
Starting a software business? Looking for a software engineering process? You can spend a month getting your head around one of these: Agile software development Crystal Clear Extreme programming Lean software development ISO 12207 Rational Unified Process CMM ISO 15504 Or.. 2 seconds learning the Nike method:
A while back, Jobster CTO Phil Bogle blogged about some of the tricks I’ve used to do fast location queries in SQL. The link to my SQL query to generate the zip lookup table for radius searches is now dead (a cybersquatter stole my domain name and I don’t want to discuss it!). So here’s […]
July 20, 2007 | Code | No comments
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is one of my favorite data sources – it’s also one of my favorite names for any government agency. The agency provides a database of world-wide features which I use as a data source for Geojoey.com’s landmark search feature (top right of the screen). These guys are selling the equivalent […]
July 20, 2007 | Code, Technology | 4 comments
I’ll often find myself chatting about choice of technology with fellow entrepreneurs and invariably it’s assumed the new web app is going to be developed in Rails. I don’t know enough about Rails to judge it’s worth. I do know that you can develop applications in Rails very quickly and that it scales complexity better […]
July 17, 2007 | Code, Startups, Technology | No comments