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October 14, 2009
Thawte has announced it will discontinue its “Web of Trust” peer to peer identity assertion program later this year.
Web Of Trust enables individuals to obtain personal digital certificates without having to go through costly corporate or government paperwork. The idea is that if several trusted WoT members (notaries) assert that they have met the person [...]
Tags: cryptography, encryption, GMail, smime, thawte, verisign, weboftrust, x509
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October 2, 2009
Dion Almer and Ben Galbraith, cofounders of the Ajaxian web development news portal, have left their digs at Mozilla to head up the developer relations team for Palm’s webOS. Dion and Ben moved to Mozilla just short of a year ago to work on Bespin, a project to develop tools for building cloud applications.
Tags: Ajaxian, Bespin, Mozilla, Palm
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October 2, 2009
When you’re writing a rich Internet application (RIA) in HTML and JavaScript, sometimes you need to programatically place a DOM element relative to the right or bottom edge of the visible browser window. For example, if you want to popup a help balloon near an item of interest, you probably want to make sure that [...]
Tags: HTML, JavaScript, Programming, RIA, web app
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February 12, 2009
Congratulations to Miguel de Icaza and his team at Novell for the completion and release of Moonlight 1.0! Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight for the Linux platform developed in a joint effort between Novell and Microsoft.
Silverlight was the primary deployment vehicle for live online video coverage of the Olympics last summer, and [...]
Tags: .NET, Microsoft, Mono, Moonlight, Novell, Silverlight, video
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January 15, 2009
Adrian Bateman of the IE8 team has posted a video showing how to use IE8’s new XDomanRequest object to request data from a URL that is not in the current HTML page’s domain. He also shows how to make an (almost) equivalent cross-domain call in a beta build of Firefox 3.1.
This makes use of the [...]
Tags: Access-Control-Check header, cross-domain, Firefox, IE8, XDomainRequest, XDR, XmlHttpRequest
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January 12, 2009
Microsoft’s Live Mesh was awarded top honors in the “Best Technology Innovation/Achievement” category at the Crunchies Awards on Jan 10, beating out other nominees in the category including Facebook Connect and Google Chrome. Live Mesh is a file sharing application that enables users to access their data from a variety of devices, while online or [...]
Tags: award, Azure, CoolIris, Crunchies, Live Mesh, PicLens
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December 30, 2008
Microsoft’s Live Mesh platform has been nominated for the 2008 Crunchies “Best Technology Innovation/Achievement” award! The winner will be determined by public vote, so get yourself over to http://crunchies2008.techcrunch.com/votes/ to cast your vote for your favorite technologies of 2008.
The Crunchies competition and award ceremony recognizes and celebrates the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of [...]
Tags: award, CoolIris, Crunchies, GigaOm, Live Mesh, Microsoft, PicLens, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, VentureBeat
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December 18, 2008
About two days ago, my Google homepage suddenly became hostile toward me. By hostile, I mean my IE7 browser is suddenly reporting a bunch of JavaScript errors and faults when loading the Google homepage that it wasn’t reporting before.
Whenever I visit my Google homepage now, I have to wade through 5 or 6 JavaScript error notifications [...]
Tags: code quality, Firefox, GMail, Google, IE, JavaScript, rant, script errors
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December 15, 2008
I’ll be speaking at the next Bay.NET user group meeting this Wednesday Dec 17 on Live Mesh application development using Live Frameworks. There will be a few slides, mostly for the infamous but necessary system stack diagrams, but the majority of the session will be spent showing and running code. I’ll open by exploring the different types of applications [...]
Tags: Bay.NET, event, Live Framework, Live Mesh, talk, user group
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December 11, 2008
The Amazon Sellers online order processing system (AOB) has been offline since early Thursday (Dec 11, 2008) morning, after intermittant outtages and poor response times starting the day prior.
Amazon reports that customers can still place orders for merchandise, but the orders are not showing up on Amazon’s order fulfillment web page for third party sellers that [...]
Tags: Amazon, Amazon Seller, outtage, webstore
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