Ade in Business

Early Fun
My first browser was Lynx, back when my Internet connection consisted of dialing into an ISP using a terminal emulator (I still remember the keyboard shortcuts). I still think there’s a lot of beauty in the simplicity of the Internet back then — text-only websites, IRC, BBS, Gopher, newsgroups, etc. Even [...]

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Some things are pretty obvious after you think of them.
When a new user signs up on FormSpring or Ponyfish, a randomly generated password is emailed to them. It’s a fairly simple way to make sure that a valid email address is associated with an account. Both services also have a password reset function [...]

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Yeah, I’m supposed to be pinching pennies, but I recently splurged a little and bought myself a new laptop. I already have a pretty decent desktop computer that I’ll continue to use as my primary machine, but I found that I was just craving some more mobility, and realized that I really needed something for [...]

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Why stop with one blog when you can have two for the price of one?
I thought I’d point out that there’s a blog on the FormSpring site to publicize new features and improvements to the service. If anyone was looking here to follow FormSpring, the blog there is now a better place to look. [...]

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One of the best tools for web application developers has got to be ApacheBench (ab), a program that’s bundled in with the stock Apache distribution. If you’re developing web applications and not using it frequently, you need to.
I was working on some code today and thought, “wouldn’t it be great if I made it [...]

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