Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Agile Ajax is interviewing Dojo creator Alex Russell (via Ajaxian) and I was pleased to read the comment about closure: As a language, JavaScript is still horribly misunderstood. All real power in JavaScript comes from understanding closures, the “everything is always mutable” property, and the prototype chain. These are actually concepts I covered […]
Category: Technology
WordPress and DoS attack
It would seem that there’s a new WordPress installation with security updates. My site was what was causing the DoS attacks that’s been bringing down the server because I don’t have this upgrade. The only problem is, I have several sites running WordPress now. The fact that WordPress does not provide multi-weblog capability, and there […]
Server problems
There have been Apache issues on my server. My hosting company OCS Solutions is working the problem. Frustrating, but such is the way of the web world. Well, unless you want to dish out the money to have your own server, which is then mirrored in a separate location, and then monitor it 24 hours […]
Installing and customizing Planet
I recently installed Planet software in order to provide one common feed from all my different web sites. I like separating out my different interests into different web sites. However, for those who are interested in keeping up with the various writings, having to subscribe to multiple feeds can be irritating. Enter Planet Planet. Planet is […]
Girl Geeks. Fact? Or Oxymoron?
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In her OPML weblog, Hilary questioned the seeming double standard of calling Dave Winer out for sexist behavior, but not dong the same with Maryam Scoble. She has a good point. I had noticed Scoble’s original posting related to BlogHer, where she wrote: Are you a a single male geek wondering why your love […]
