Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

bit.ly accelerator for Internet Explorer 8

Posted on 28-Aug-2008, 16:10, by Tommy Williams, under Software, Technology.

I have been playing around with IE8 Beta 2 since it was released. What were "Activities" in Beta 1 are now "Accelerators." Tim Heuer created one that shortens URLs with TinyURL. Using his example, I was able to build one for bit.ly in less than five minutes:
Install bit.ly accelerator

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Reminding me that Vista is exciting

Posted on 3-Feb-2007, 15:55, by Tommy Williams, under Technology.

Lots of news this week about the disappointment of Vista. Yes, the security is leaps and bounds better than XP (and that’s enough reason by itself that we should upgrade, but then we should eat more vegetables, we should exercise more, we should stay at our desks when the email goes around about free doughnuts in [...]

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It’s hard to have scalable, reliable databases on the Web

Posted on 21-Feb-2006, 22:11, by Tommy Williams, under Technology.

Putting databases on the Web is hard. It’s hard if you do it right, anyway.
Dare Obasanjo collects a set of posts about the challenges of using databases on the Web. These are written for people who have already tried to build systems for millions of users. Let me explain the problems for those of you [...]

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