This month's Computers in Business (the IT supplement from the Sunday Business Post) has an interesting article by Barry McCall which covers the "marriage" of open and closed source solutions in the corporate environment. Some of his reflections are quite incisive: Some competing Linux distributors are blindly following a pure open source path while some proprietary vendors … [Read more...] about Open Source vs Proprietary Software – A middle ground?
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Internet Explorer Users Beware
If you make up part of the 40% of readers viewing this blog in Internet Explorer you may have noticed a new addition to the top of this page (and all other pages on this blog) If you do not like this addition you can get rid of it very easily :) EDIT: Seems the javascript is doing odd things, so I've removed it for the moment … [Read more...] about Internet Explorer Users Beware
E-commerce Cheat Sheet (part 1)
One of the more commonly asked questions on both mailing lists and fora is related to e-commerce, or more specifically accepting payments on your website. I've put together this brief guide in order to help webmasters, or at least point them in the right direction. If anybody has any additions or corrections please let me know. First off you need to ask yourself a very obvious … [Read more...] about E-commerce Cheat Sheet (part 1)
Make Your RSS Feed More Interesting
Rss feeds can be a little boring. Although you can syndicate your blog's content you may feel that you are missing out on some of the interactive elements that readers can get directly on your blog. … [Read more...] about Make Your RSS Feed More Interesting
RTE to join INEX
A couple of months ago I mentioned RTE's plans to offer streaming video. In a related announcement they have become the first associate member of INEX, the Irish Internet neutral exchange. … [Read more...] about RTE to join INEX