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Lessons From a Cloud Failure
Lessons From a Cloud Failure: It’s Not Amazon, It’s You | Webmonkey | Wired.com. “Amazon’s cloud-hosted Web Services experienced a catastrophic failure last week, knocking hundreds of sites off the web. Some developers saw the AWS outage […]
The Usability of Passwords
The Usability of Passwords (by @baekdal) #tips. “Security companies and IT people constantly tells us that we should use complex and difficult passwords. This is bad advice, because you can actually make usable, easy to remember […]
Dear Microsoft – SkyDrive, Sync, Mesh… Seriously?
Updated 5/5/12 – Looks like Microsoft read my post ;-) and they’ve released a quite nice looking simple and clean SkyDrive version! http://www.gfisk.com/skydrive-finally/ About five years behind everyone else I finally checked out online storage options. […]
Kindle
Free Kindle eBooks from Amazon Currently 16,528 Public Domain Kindle eBook titles available for free from Amazon.com Free Kindle eBooks from Amazon 791,099 Kindle eBooks sorted by price, starting with $0.00 All Kindle eBooks sorted by […]
ColdFusion redirect – cflocation
I had to change the domain of a longstanding ColdFusion site with hundreds of pages. With .htaccess on an Apache Linux host this is easy and well documented. With ColdFusion on IIS when you are not […]
Gallery 3 – Online photo organizer
Gallery 3 is an excellent Open Source photo management and organizing tool. If you like to manage your photos on your website then G3 may be for you. Check out my Photo Gallery for an example! About […]
Web Developer Extensions for Firefox
I browse with Google Chrome but use Mozilla Firefox for the development tools below as the tools either don’t exist for Chrome or lack features. Web Developer http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/features/ Firebug http://getfirebug.com/ http://getfirebug.com/whatisfirebug Yslow from Yahoo http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/ […]
Replace Notepad as default Windows 7 text editor
Microsoft’s Notepad is quick and light on resources. After that it doesn’t have much to offer. Here’s two very simple and quick methods of changing Notepad to a more robust program of your choosing. I use Notepad++ as my […]
Cannot edit or save files in the inetpub folder
Windows 7 UAC treats Inetpub as a protected folder and thus denies access to applications such as Dreamweaver. Great for security, not so great for development if you choose to work from that location. Solution at […]