Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Tim Bray On the Goodness of Unicode: „Embrace Unicode, don’t fight it; it’s probably the right thing to do, and if it weren’t you’d probably have to anyhow. Inside your software, store text as UTF-8 or UTF-16; that is to say, pick one of the two and stick with it. Interchange data with the outside…

SANS Top 20 Vulnerabilities – „Top Vulnerabilities to UNIX Systems: BIND Domain Name System Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) Apache Web Server General UNIX Authentication Accounts with No Passwords or Weak Passwords Clear Text Services Sendmail Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Secure Shell (SSH) Misconfiguration of Enterprise Services NIS/NFS Open Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)“

Joel on Software: „When I discovered that the popular web development tool PHP has almost complete ignorance of character encoding issues, blithely using 8 bits for characters, making it darn near impossible to develop good international web applications, I thought, enough is enough. So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer…

It’s about time to say in public that Microsoft has been left behind: While they went to sleep after releasing Internet Explorer 5.5/6.0, Mozilla and its companions have added so much value to the browser experience (tabbed browsing, blocking popups, selective cookie management, much much better security, not to mention Mozilla being cross-platform) that I’m…

Quite nice: CVSTrac – A Web-Based Bug And Patch-Set Tracking System For CVS. Here’s an excerpt from their feature list: Web-based administration of the CVSROOT/passwd file Built-in repository browser Built-in Wiki Very simple setup – a self-contained executable runs as CGI, from inetd, or as a stand-alone web server

Here’s what a Perl enthusiast likes about PHP: „Despite enthusing about Perl and using it daily, I actually prefer to write dynamic websites in PHP <hiss boo>. Its quick, simple, very easy to prototype, and if an ISP is offering PHP then you know your site will work, rather than having to negotiate module installation…

Jon Udell notes that there’s still innovation needed to really empower average users to contribute to the Web: „To this day, uploading an arbitrary file to a public URL is something that most people can’t do. We (as a species) know how to attach files to email. We don’t know how to post files and…

„DEAR SIR/MADAM: I AM MR. DARL MCBRIDE CURRENTLY SERVING AS THE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE SCO GROUP, FORMERLY KNOWN AS CALDERA SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, IN LINDON, UTAH, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I KNOW THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOUR BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD NO PREVIOUS COMMUNICATIONS OR BUSINESS DEALINGS BEFORE NOW. MY ASSOCIATES HAVE…

Mark Sigal: „When do client applications matter? Simply put, when does a rich client have an „unfair advantage“ over a web browser in terms of bringing real value-add to the application composite?“

ProjectForum looks like a powerful Wiki-like server: „ProjectForum provides a powerful but easy-to-use solution for flexible workgroup collaboration and coordination of projects and teams over the web. Build an intranet or project site where everyone can actively and directly contribute, without complex software or a full-time administrator getting in the way. Use it for project…