I received the following message from one of my Facebook friends the other day: “Facebook isn’t using HTTPS by default any more, so your PC might get HACKED!” This message was very useful to many of my friend’s Facebook friends. Also, I’m a big fan of using HTTPS, so I’m glad that she was helping… [Read more…]
February 3, 2010
Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide by Dave Thomas My rating: 4 of 5 stars In general, this book does a fairly good job of helping you create a rails-based application. Part 3 includes some great in-depth information on the topics that are briefly discussed in Part 2. I only have one real… [Read more…]
February 20, 2009
On Marketplace yesterday, there was a great piece on how a lot of job-seekers are using social networks to help them find new job. They focused on strategies that make it easy for potential employers to find you based on relationships, and how efficient that can be. Searching for a job has always been about… [Read more…]
February 15, 2008
A friend of mine recently volunteered to update and maintain a web site for a local non-profit. He basically wants to clean up the formatting on the site (using CSS whenever possible), add more rich media such as flash-based slide shows, and make it more collaborative by adding features like a forum. Of course, since… [Read more…]
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