December 2004

Software Pricing and Business Plans

December 30, 2004

Joel on Software should be essential reading for anyone in the business of creating and selling online software. Joel has huge experience in the field and his personal blog is a wonderful showcase of useful information and interesting anecdotes. His recent essay: Camels and Rubber Duckies is another must-read even if the title seems rather [...]

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So, here it is: Merry Christmas

December 23, 2004

The internet is like a fun sponge at times. While we amuse ourselves with flash animations of frogs in blenders and armless characters in Home Star Runner we seem to be unable to bask in the warmth of a seasonal holiday. People post stupid lists of how scientists have proved that Santa doesn’t exist and [...]

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When the worm turns

December 22, 2004

A little while ago, I blogged about why I considered "full disclosure" to be a potentially damaging way of dealing with security issues that arise in internet software. Yesterday saw a simple vulnerability in phpBB responsible for "hacking" over 40,000 websites. This so-called "Santy Worm" used a very simple exploit in the phpBB code to [...]

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Need a reminder?

December 16, 2004

The internet has brought us many things. Instant global communication, online shopping and fan-sites on ninjas but to name a few.  The internet has also brought us a fair amount of idiots. Actually, it’s an unfair amount of idiots but they do make for entertaining reading as the website Bash.org proves. Here are a few [...]

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Technological Roundabout

December 14, 2004

I was flicking through a copy of .Net magazine and the "Web Builder" section had a feature on Flash and came with some examples to type into your Flash editor to learn some new Flash skills. This sent me on a voyage of nostalgia of halcoyn days long gone spent trashing away at a BBC [...]

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Trackback Test

December 9, 2004

There’s nothing to see here. I’m just testing the trackback functionality on our IPS Blog software. Trackback is an interesting feature. In a way it could be adapted to be used within forum software. You could elect to "ping" a post or topic from another forum when quoting material. The usual PHP limitations apply though; [...]

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