As we get into the holiday mood it seems a rush in order to solve eminent problems that have plagued us throught the year. One of the most popular data exchange and export formats is XML. While XML files provide a means of moving data between systems, especially legacy systems, an issue arises when you […]
Browser Wars 2010 – Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome
Almost 85% of the Internet population uses the top 3 browsers which are as different as they are similar. I do love and hate each of them in their own ways. Internet Explorer Has improved since IE 6 which as a web designer is the worst thing that happened to the Internet IE 8 I like, its […]
Intuit Websites using Sitebuilder by Homestead – Proxy Servers
If you are developing or updating a site hosted by Intuit Websites (http://www.intuit.com/website-building-software/) you need to be careful when publishing behind a proxy. It seems that the software does not connect to the servers if its behind a proxy, so you need to disable the proxy or find a connection which does not use one […]
WikiLeaks – Is this turning into a civil war?
Just watching the countinued cat-and-mouse game between wiki-leaks, governments, and large corporations, its starting to seem like the beginnings of a civil war on the Internet, probably the first Internet world war. ISPs, Credit Card Companies, Banks, Radio stations, individuals, are all being targeted. I am sure that underneath all of this the collateral damage […]
MTN Kampala Marathon – 2010
The reality is that I need to train for the next one. I am still waiting for the official stats for my number 11528, but my first marathon was an experience How did it start, well I woke up at 5.30am, because I thought we were setting off early at 6:00am. I was at the starting line […]
Windows 7 and the 2GB RAM Issue
Now that Black Friday offers are sinking in, some of which are being extended into the holidays. Be it that laptop or desktop that you want, the issue always remains do I get 32bit or 64bit OS. Times have improved since Windows Vista, where 32bit and 64bit were two worlds apart. They are almost similar, […]
Goodbye Leslie Nielsen
Leslie, it was a pleasure watching you all through my teen age days. Your style of comedy was old-skool, spring fresh and just plain hilarious. Police Squad, Naked Gun, Naked Gun 21/2, Naked Gun 33 1/3 were the highlights of my youth movie scene. Watching them over and over again was a Saturday night treat. May […]
2010 Thanksgiving Wishes
To all my friends, family, colleagues and clients in the United States, this is to wish a joyful fun-filled Thanksgiving. During this time when family is at the fore-front of our minds, may you have safe travels and may the re-unions be all that you wish them to be. The state of the economy may […]
Google Need for “Page” Speed – The Web Developer’s Arsenal
Google the king of search has made the speed of websites and page loading a key actor in ranking. This coupled with the need to use 3rd party frameworks for front end development, like JQuery, MooTools, Scriptalicious, Yahoo YUI, to support the multitiude of browsers has a larger burden web developers. In true fashion however, […]
Virtual Machine – the New Way for Server Hardware?
On a client project, a new server has been provisioned 400GB HDD, 32GB RAM, Intel Xeon 5660 processor, CentOS 5 all in a virtual machine. The virtualization is transparent to us, so we can configure, restart it, back it up without any issues. Now we can test out running a MySQL database with all its […]