Posted in website development, tagged telnet, windows vista on June 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Imagine my surprise when I dropped down to the console to telnet to a remote computer and was told, ever so politely:
‘telnet’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Huh? Telnet has shipped with every version of Windows since the dawn of 3.1 or so - why stop now? [...]
Posted in website development, tagged rails, ror, ruby on rails on June 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Embarc has long been a Java Web Development shop. Citing our preference for open-source technology built for an open-source and predictable, stable target Operating System in Linux, we’ve developed many scalable and enterprise-level web applications using J2EE Java.
Now, we are considering changing our approach regarding web development technology. Instead of Java, we’re starting to work [...]
Posted in website development, tagged google gears, microsoft silverlight on June 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Given that the Internet changes rapidly, it’s important to keep abreast of the more important changes in technology. There will be fads that are nothing more than a flash in the pan, as well as trends that come and go. But, there will also be shifts that will dictate the future development and use of [...]
Posted in website development, tagged rss, rss feed detection, rss in browsers on June 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 include a new feature that automatically displays active RSS feeds on any web page you visit. This “feed detection” icon is the orange icon depicted to the right. When active feeds are detected, it lights up orange.
RSS Feeds have been around for awhile, but this built-in feature is [...]
