Archive for the ‘Business’ Category

PHP Drag & Drop site creator using AJAX is a bust


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 ...

Ning is busted


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 ...

It’s the business model, stupid. How terrible programming can lead to big money.


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 ...

Yahoo customer service is amazing


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. ...

Creating software products versus Supporting software products


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 ...

There is a vulnerability with LiveUpdate. Please use LiveUpdate to download a fix.


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 ...

Credit Card fraud prevention and algorithm design at Amex


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, ...

The BALCO steroid scandal, Enron, Martha Stewart


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 ...

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