Archive for the 'Things' Category

Jan9

Programming or Not: Don’t Think of Herding Cats

Just read this on Slashdot and couldn’t help myself (it works in every field where brains not mass are a factor):
Herding cats is hard because you are using the wrong management technique. You herd cattle (and sheep and goats and pigs etc.), you do *not* herd cats. Cats, you put them in the general area […]

Continue Reading »

Filed in: Securing Your e.Biz Things

Jan5

Why Linux is Often the Answer for Small Businesses

When it comes to installing a local network serving a small office, then software-hardware compatibility is quite important. Shows up that protective corporate barriers result in questionable products, with a vast amount of nonsense embedded. These are not what you want for your small business office. Yes, ads are nice and sounds cool to be […]

Continue Reading »

Filed in: Securing Your e.Biz Things


Jan4

DieHard Software for your Small Business PCs

As promised yesterday, here I come with an application that will do wonders for you at the office. Reasons why you should download and install DieHard Software:
1. gaining more stability, less crashes, less annoyance;
2. putting the parasites off your machine: even if you live with a false sense of security, I can tell that quite […]

Continue Reading »

Filed in: Securing Your e.Biz Things

Jan3

What 2007 Brings to Server-based Services

Was about time I get to write a blog… All these months we had to build a ‘pyramid’ of coding, to mix the e-commerce engine camel with a one-of-a-kind auction engine ostrich, and so on and so forth…
But all that is water under the bridge, to cite Faye, and I’m happily back in the blogging […]

Continue Reading »

Filed in: Securing Your e.Biz Things


Oct9

Insert a Plus and Ditch Spammers

Spam comes to you through various channels:
-harvesters stealing email address books from your PC when you—or friends sharing mails with you—are visiting suspect websites;
-trojans and worms pestering your own PC, or other PCs where your email address is copied for legit reasons;
-various combinations of the above two basic methods.
The bottom line with junk mail is […]

Continue Reading »

Filed in: Securing Your e.Biz Things

Sep16

PDF Security: Silent Acrobat Exploits

Silent hacking sounds like a new concept, so new that seldom PDF users are aware of it. Would you think at security exploits while staring at a for-print document that a close friend, a business partner or a colleague was sending you? Actually I didn’t—in spite of my little security paranoia with Nigerian based phishers […]

Continue Reading »

Filed in: Securing Your e.Biz Things


Sep15

Yes, you can have your own biz web site

Recent surveys indicate how ardently small business owners look to deploy web sites. Porting daily chores to web based applications, besides simple presentations, advertising, or even e-commerce. But first a blink at the results (some of):
The survey sought to understand the challenges that small business owners face marketing their businesses online. Revealing highlights of the […]

Continue Reading »

Filed in: Securing Your e.Biz Things Web Applications

Sep15

Google’s Web Word Processor: Writely

Google-owned Writely just launched open to public mass registrations. It’s the on-demand version of the very popular desktop based word processors by Microsoft (MS Word), Corel (Word Perfect) and OpenOffice.org.
…and i was keeping this post in the drafts shelf for couple weeks; presumably I wanted to write more blahs ’bout it, but time proved way […]

Continue Reading »

Filed in: The Google Bot Things Web Applications


Aug24

Firewalls, Anti-virus or Just IPtables?

Personal hygiene defends from bugs, or better said proper, complete and sustained hygiene as a practice gives best results in keeping bugs away. From our body to the house habitat, then out on the streets, and so on and so forth. It’s a chore that runs from combating dust mites to clearing airports. And it […]

Continue Reading »

Filed in: Securing Your e.Biz Things

Aug22

Before Blaming the Server

Users are most often misled by proprietary software false security claims —actually marketing stunts— to believe that they’re having some ‘levels’ of security on their Windows desktop computers. From this error on, users begin to assume that who else than servers should get the blame for malware and junk.
It would be hard for a professional […]

Continue Reading »

Filed in: Securing Your e.Biz Things Web Applications




 

Popular Categories

No categories

About

Georg first started with programming in 1981. Did some machine engineering between 1985 and 1990. Then wasted an entire decade on DTP (Desktop Publishing), pre-press and printing. Since 2000, Georg escaped the Gutenberg territory to focus on web sites development and on-demand software applications programming. Don’t tell Georg that software comes in a box…