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This site is no longer maintained.
My current weblog.
Monday, May 06, 2002Sifry: 802.11b for your TiVo.
What about 802.11a?
ZDNet: How does IIS keep it's market share?
This has to be the lamest anti-IIS piece I have ever read. The author provides a decent list of IIS's advantages in the next to last paragraph, yet concludes that he doesn't know why IIS's market share continues to climb.
IIS gains at the low-end of the market because it's bundled with the OS and trivial to administer. It gains at the mid-range because most IT shops have extensive investments in Microsoft technologies and COM allows ASP-based applications to interop with everything. For high-end sites, IIS has great performance for static sites. ISAPI applications scale easily. Scaling ASP-based applications to millions of daily visitors can be challenging, but not terribly so.
Scaling IIS in a shared web hosting environment is a real challenge, and Apache has clearly won in that segment. My former employer probably hosts more shared web sites on Apache than all companies offering NT-based shared web hosting with ASP combined.
allNetDevices: Verizon BREWs Up a Multimedia Platform. exego from Summus, Inc. launched today, giving Verizon users with BREW-enabled handsets a tasty drink of the future of mobile services. exego will enable multimedia messaging, e-mail and image and file sharing.
My roommate found WAPBlogger, a Blogger API service for WAP devices. Gotta love that this service, like AvantBlog, doesn't provide the software itself. You must trust that they won't steal your password.Scripting News: Look at how much more readable InfoWorld was in 1998.
Amen. I hate reading anything on their site. Nevermind that they never link to anything external, few media sites do, but seeing the same generic word linked to the same URL multiple times in a single article has conditioned me to ignore all of their links. Links within an InfoWorld article offer no value.
Jakob Nielsen should write an Alertbox about this.
Slashdot: Fewer Jobs, Less Pay In The IT Industry
My preferred resource for finding tech jobs lists a total of 150 openings in the Broward / Palm Beach area. It used to be that I would find that many in Broward County alone, searching on my specific skillset. At a tech networking event last week with over 100 attendees, only 3 were looking to fill positions.
I've been applying for positions well below my experience and pay levels, and I'm getting nowhere.
Local Communities Online
John Robb dreams of local communities using Radio Userland, The Shifted Librarian responds that libraries would be the best starting point but they lack the resources, and Slashdot runs Community Networks and Websites.
There are two aspects to bringing local communities online: connecting people with local online resources, and connecting people with people. The former likely already exists in your area, you just have to find it. For me, it's the Broward County website. They have an excellent links page that points to virtually every resource a resident would be in need of.
Connecting local communities of people with each other is more challenging. The biggest obstacle is in bringing a sufficient number of users together in the first place to achieve critical mass. In the days before graphical web browsers, BBSes used excel at this soft of thing because their audience was somewhat captive. People going online today have cheap access to the entire world.
John Robb may have the right idea. Get a bunch of influential locals online, in a central location. Equip them with weblogs, discussion groups, and directories. Enable a local online community spread from those roots.
