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Monthly Archives: July 2008
The hyper corrective browser
Hyper corrective browsers will probably do more harm than good.
Backpacking. Redefined.
I’m just back from a weekend getaway in Bangkok, Thailand, just to escape from the hectic work life in Mumbai. The Mumbai chaos can sometimes be a bit overwhelming for Europeans, so I decided to visit the well-organized “City of Angels”, mainly for relaxing and shopping. I didn’t take much with me, with the idea that I’ll buy most of it over there, so armed with a couple of t-shirts, a pair of jeans, slippers …
Rent-a-ranter
My favorite podcast just finished their final, what they refer to as ordinary episode: LUG Radio . The podcast is hosted by four British blokes (Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet) who admittedly swear and joke a lot but also discuss Linux and other open source related topics with very refreshing insights. That’s all over now of course. They bailed out. Don’t they say that only all good things come to an …
Welcome to Web2.0 – with the same old same old Security (Continued)
Well, my post about Web2.0 security (or lack of it) seems to have aroused considerable interest. How should real world laws apply to virtual worlds? One thing which comes to mind straight away is that there can be more than one kind of virtual world. The rules around a quest for dragons’ gold will probably be different from an office meeting and the context should be obvious. So if I am meeting a group on …
Welcome to Web2.0 – with the same old same old Security
As the Internet has evolved our collaboration options have evolved with it. We have gone from email to ftp to web to im. Now everyone’s talking about Web2.0, which offers social networking and online worlds as personal and, increasingly, as business collaboration tools. Each new collaboration method has ignored security issues at first, and has encountered reputation and take-up problems as a result. Web2.0 is set to conform to this time honoured pattern. One of …
Banking. Redefined.
I have yet to see the first financial portal that can be called user-centric and user-friendly. When I look at the website to manage my bank or credit card account, it’s quite sad to see that most of them are like still stuck somewhere in the pre-Web 2.0 era. I am not only talking about the fancy hocus pocus Ajax stuff, but really about usability and the YOU experience: the application should be centered about …
Acid3 and 4, why even bother?
What is in it for the users of the browsers and what is in it for the developers testing their webpages for standaard compliance? In my opinion: nothing. Do you as a user really care that you use a browser that passed the Acid3 test? Probably not, otherwise the browser statistics would be quite different.
Nominated!
There is a time for everything. Now, it is time to boast: “Capping IT Off” has been shortlisted by ComputerWeekly.com for the best IT blog awards in the category “company blogs”. I think I speak for all bloggers posting to this blog when I say that this nomination in itself already is a huge acknowledgment. To all who nominated us: Thank you! And because there really is no sense in being modest about this, I …
The Internet Service Bus
I gave recently a presentation for Capgemini’s Indian Architects Community about delivering high-scalable SOA with Amazon Web Services where I was discussing the potential of Amazon’s Simple Queue Service (SQS) to become the Internet’s Service Bus. Today I stumbled on a project called Gnip (http://www.gnipcentral.com) that wants to “make data portability suck less” by acting as some kind of protocol bridge between several data producers (like Twitter, Flickr, etc.) and consumers. While the service is …
Wall Street Journal: Most Corporate Blogs Are Unimaginative Failures
Gosh, I sure hope we are making a good attempt at not being a boring a corporate blog here! According to the Wall Street Journal most corporate blogs will bore you to death. Fortunately, the author of the article provides some good hints and examples of good corporate blogs. Let’s copy their style and we should be safe. ;-) I would really value your opinion of our blog now, dear reader. Did I just see …
Winner IT industry blogger of the Year
