Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
December 13th, 2005 by Rich Zygler
tags: AJAX, Application Design, Applications, Business, JavaScript, PHP, Security | No Comments »
For the life of me, I’ll never understand why people and companies continue to sell boxed PHP applications. As hokey and corporate-cliché as this sounds, companies should instead be selling relationships. Not software. Especially not boxed PHP software.
So, SQL Fusion has created a “Drag and Drop Site ...
October 4th, 2005 by Rich Zygler
tags: Business, PHP | No Comments »
Stuff like this drives me nuts. Ning is out. It's a social app builder that can join other social apps together. It sounds complicated but it's really not. Anyway, I registered, confirmed my registration and now it won't let me log in but it says ...
February 7th, 2005 by Rich Zygler
tags: Business, PHP | No Comments »
The last few projects I’ve been working on have involved paging through lines of poorly programmed and utterly atrocious looking procedural code in PHP. I’ve mostly been mopping up for other consultants, some outsourced, some not. I’ve questioned on several occasions whether or not a 5 year old ...
January 29th, 2005 by Rich Zygler
tags: Business | 1 Comment »
I use my.yahoo.com/ all the time lately. Obviously, I use the email and the weather feature is nice. I have both of these on my front page. But some of the other tools of my.yahoo.com have become indispensable to me, particularly, the bookmarks, notes and briefcase. ...
January 24th, 2005 by Rich Zygler
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For the first time in a long time, I find myself working on applications in a revenue generating department of a company. It’s pretty refreshing. I’m working in online product delivery so the web applications I work on are actually sold to customers via subscriptions – they gain ...
December 20th, 2004 by Rich Zygler
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I hate security updates like this.
From: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11873/discussion/
Symantec Windows LiveUpdate is reported prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. This issue can allow a local unprivileged attacker to gain administrative privileges on a vulnerable computer.
It is reported that this issue only presents itself during an interactive LiveUpdate session. A local attacker ...
December 13th, 2004 by Rich Zygler
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Nothing is a bigger pain in the butt then pumping gas into your car in the middle of a snowstorm. Nothing that is… except for when the gas pump turns down your Amex credit card and makes you scramble across icy pavement to pay the attendant inside. Luckily, ...
December 10th, 2004 by Rich Zygler
tags: Business, Sports | 1 Comment »
After letting all these BALCO steroid headlines sink in for a few days, it’s occurred to me how similar it all is to some of the other high profile corporate scandals of the past few years.
Baseball, like any professional sport in the U.S. is big business. Millions ...