Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
Via Scripting New: Forbes comments on The Coming RSS Revolution and does a reasonable job explaining what RSS is (in terms non-tech people can understand), as well as sources for Feeds Yahoo! has separate RSS feeds for national, international and Continue reading Explaining RSS to your Boss
Another MySQL database server article :Wired News: MySQL Profits From Open Source as the mainstream discovers that you can get what you need for $500 a server rather that thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. Also mentioned are other Continue reading MySQL Profits From Open Source
Dave (aka Scripting News): writes about Orkut being their identity system. jeremy.zawodny speculates along similar lines as well. (actually jeremy was there first) They should not forget August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web on Continue reading The Orkut Identity system
Nice piece : ONLamp.com: MySQL Crash Course, Part 3 , basic selects and joins. (a review is always nice). And I saw something new : The “LIMIT” clause mysql> SELECT * FROM authors LIMIT 1; LIMIT (not part of SQL92, Continue reading More MySQL Crash Course
Boing Boing: “MSFT: don’t click on links, type them in by hand Microsoft’s crapware browser, Explorer, has more security vulnerabilities than my block has dope-dealers, but this is ridiculous. MSFT now advises its users to not click links, but rather Continue reading Security the Microsoft way
Web design: never let an ad agency near your website: January 19, 2004 issue of New Thinking by Gerry McGovern