Monthly Archives: July 2009

Wow, did  you see that? Java.com is down. Now, I’m sure you won’t be seeing it down when you read this in a couple of minutes, but amazingly, what happened for an error 500 to be there? lol, one my … Continue reading →

So, I’m back from vacation today in this beautiful cottage I was at and there’s nothing like waking up to the smell of a shiny new article about Microsoft and Yahoo making a partnership… Great, I missed a lot during … Continue reading →

Since our inception of the visual antibot and the question antibot plugin on AMV-Canada’s phpBB board, we’ve completely eliminated the bot problem. Quite simply, since May 4th 2009, we haven’t had ANY bot come through. We’ve even reduced the complexity … Continue reading →

All of our sites are now with WebFaction and we’ve been really pleased with the results. Nevermind the crazy cool web app setup interface on WF, just looks at statistics. More up to date At MT, we were stuck with … Continue reading →

I think the real question to ask would be: Can a CMS really be beneficial for me? And the answer is: Probably only for a blog (ie. WordPress, Drupal) Oh my god you say, what is this freak saying, with … Continue reading →

Choosing between Silverlight, Flash/Flex and JavaFX, or even omitting their use completely à-la-Google with HTML 5 is a very debated subject. However, probably above their feature sets, you have to consider each RIA’s position on the market, making it a … Continue reading →

For a lot of people in tech industry, the announcement of Google’s Chrome OS was as if a death clock started ticking for Windows. Whenever Google comes out with a new product, apparently it’s going to crush the competition. However, … Continue reading →

EDIT: MODx 1.0, which just got released, has full support for dictionary attack prevention native, even better than WordPress. Additionally, it looks like the hack comes from a key-logger that steals FTP passwords (not MODx or WordPress). In fact, this … Continue reading →

There used to be a time adding a number to the password “cat” meant your kid couldn’t figure out the password to your computer. There also used to be a time where trumping dictionary attacks was a simple as adding … Continue reading →

Every web developer knows it, it just seems like to compete with IE, the only way is to go open source to get a community going on. While this may be true, some people just don’t seem to get it. … Continue reading →