Do you ever hear people talking about Flash on the web and wonder what the heck it is?  Wonder no more.  Flash is a sort of animated image.  In the olden days of the web it was used just to make moving pictures.  Now it’s also used for things like contact forms and in menu [...]

Have you heard the expression “cloud computing”?  In cloud computing software and data would reside on the Internet.  (That’s the “cloud” part of the term.) People would log into their accounts on the Internet to generate reports and preform analysis. Benefits Cost Savings – Instead of buying a piece of software you’d buy a subscription [...]

This is the second part of a response to an article on the Wall Street Journal entitled How to Create a Successful Web Site For Nothing (or Almost Nothing). You can see part one of my response here. In part one I analyzed points one through three of the article. Today I’m going to take [...]

A week ago The Wall Street Journal posted an article that bothers me a great deal. The title of the article is How to Create a Successful Web Site For Nothing (or Almost Nothing). The article starts out: Have you got eight hours and $10? Then you can build a Web site for your business. [...]

Recently a customer was seeing a problem with the background of her website. She didn’t see the problem when she used her laptop. She only saw it when she used her office computer. I couldn’t see it at all. Another developer was working with me on the project and couldn’t see it at all either. [...]

We’ve talked about spoofing before.  Basically it’s when evil spammers send out emails using your email address.  There’s nothing that can be done to prevent spammers from doing this. However there is something that can help stop the spoofed emails from reaching their destination – the wonderful SPF record. SPF stands for Sender Policy Framework.  [...]

Awhile ago I did a post about googlegangers. I explained that a googleganger is someone who shares your name. You can find these people when you look your name up on Google. The New York Times recently did an article on the subject. (Did I scoop the New York Times? I did mine last October [...]

Do you know what a doppelganger is? The term shows up a lot in horror and science fiction TV shows. On Stargate SG-1 Samantha Carter’s doppelganger is the evil Replicator Samantha. On Star Trek: The Next Generation Data had an evil twin brother named Lore. You get the idea. A googleganger is someone with your [...]