Friday, June 16th, 2006
SSL is a nice feature to show off to customers - it has a nice lock icon which reassures users that they are secure. However, it comes at a price - the encryption and decryption process does take up time CPU time on both client and server, in additon to ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005
Some time ago one of our customers asked us for a feature where a certain box on a certain printed document would be limited to a certain size. The feature was promptly put in place and used for the past few weeks. Yesterday, they suddenly realized that some of the ...
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
The NY Post is reporting (via Drudge)that a fire knocked out an entire subway line in NYC for 5 years:
A fire in a subway control room has put the C line out of service for up to five years and caused serious problems on the A line that will make ...
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2004
Joel has a great piece which mentions the right approach to bug fighting:
For example, if I assign a bug to a developer I expect them to:
1. reproduce the bug
2. if it's not immediately reproducible, make a good faith effort to figure out why it's happening to me instead of just ...
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Monday, November 22nd, 2004
I have been using Chris Pederick's Web Developer toolbar for Mozilla and Firefox in conjunction with Daniel Savard's Live HTTP Header extension for a while. Recently I challenged a friend of mine who is a big Opera fan to find a similar tool for Opera. He came up with 1 ...
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