Friday, October 13, 2006

Software Security Sucks

The reason software security sucks is because as a developer/architect/user, they mean different things to each one. As a developer, it's a pain to implement it. As an Architect, it's a pain to define it. As a user, I don't really give two cents unless it prevents me from doing my job.Now, I guess I should back down from post title. But it's true. Developing and designing applications with security in mind is a very daunting task. In my opinion, and of course, it's all mine, web applications seem to provide the biggest scare...
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Yes, Office 2.0 is for me

I wanted to jump in on this discussion, mainly because I am very passionate about these Web 2.0 apps. Honestly, I don't care if they are aptly named "Web 2.0", or Web 3.0 or Webbies or what ever. What I do care about is they are accessible from pretty much anywhere I can get an Internet connection. As I posted here, I'm really open to these applications. As stated in Chris's post (here), not everyone needs every feature of a wordprocessor like Microsoft Word. In fact, I don't even need all the features in a Google Docs. But...
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October Breast Cancer Awareness

I added a cool little badge to the right that links to the National Breast Cancer Awareness site. Please take a moment and visit the site to learn more about this disease.Over the past several years I have lost several members of my family to cancer. It's a devastating disease. It affects more than the person who's sick. Recently a good friend of...
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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Tracking my development time

I know there are probably a thousand utilities to track timed events. In the case where I need to track how much time I spend working on a clients project, I found a great little application called TimeLeft. Why do I like it? It's small. I can keep it running on the top of my windows and it doesn't get in the way. I can take a quick glance and...
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Monday, October 9, 2006

WriteToMyBlog, easy and works great

I have been using WriteToMyBlog the last couple of days. It's a great little app, web based, supports several blogging API's. Here are a couple of my quick assessments:1. It seems to have a lot ...
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