Some of the things that I have found interesting while browsing the web this week: The website is down (www.thewebsiteisdown.com). A video pitting the “sales guy vs the web dude” within a company. Probably a bit too geeky for most, but if you are at all tech savvy you will find this funny. Some classic moments, including rebooting the Exchange server... Read more...
The BBC is reporting that Microsoft is attempting to become advocates of open source software, specifically the software that powers web servers across the world. It seems Microsoft have paid a hefty sum (well not so hefty for them) to become a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation. Apache software powers more web servers than any other, including Microsoft's... Read more...
In the past I have been skeptical of companies implementing green policies purely for PR purposes rather than them actually caring about the environment. I'm not a tree hugger but do consider myself to be a 'green' person. I use public transport everyday, the car only once a week, recycle everything I can and rarely indulge in air travel and... Read more...
I made a conscience decision upon leaving university that I didn’t want to go into a job working at a software house. After studying computer science I wanted a break from working solely with techie people. Although it must be said that some of my jobs since leaving university have been eventful, after 20 odd months of working at Playgroup... Read more...
Yesterday Mozilla launched the 3rd version of its popular web browser Firefox. To generate interest they announced Download Day 2008, hoping to set a new world record for number of software downloads in 24 hours. At the time of writing Mozilla have just announced that they achieved 8 million downloads in this time and Guinness are now reviewing this world... Read more...
I was reading an article in PHP Architect the other day about how coding is not as fun as it used to be. The author was highlighting that there are so many considerations and security features that you have to be aware of, writing code for pure functionality is now only a small part of a web or application build. I have to... Read more...
People are increasingly looking to the media in all its forms and pointing the blame for society's evils. One concern people have is that children copy crimes they have seen from a gory film, a questionable web campaign or more recently a video game.I have always been skeptical of this blame culture, why is it always somebody else's fault? The... Read more...
Speaking at the Internet World Exhibition in London, Mozilla's Tristan Nitot expressed concerns over media plugins for your browser. Applications such as Flash from Adobe and Microsoft's Silverlight were called into question. Nitot explains: "You are producing content for your users and there is someone in the middle deciding whether users should be able to see your content".I have never... Read more...
It seems Microsoft have abandoned their attempt to purchase Yahoo... for the time being at least. I took an interest in this story as on the face of it, it seems a strange move from Microsoft. Both Microsoft and Yahoo have struggled to gain market share on Google for a variety of reasons but at a base level it is because they both... Read more...
The new designs for the British coins have been recently unveiled. There were 4,000 entries to a public competition to find the new designs; it was won by someone called Matthew Dent.The six designs on the 1p through to the 50p coins can be pieced together to form a complete image of the royal coat of arms. You can see... Read more...
