McAfee released the results of a survey last week after sampling 500 IT decision-makers from companies with 1,000 to 2,000 employees. The results are pretty astounding. Forty-four percent think that cybercrime is only an issue for larger organizations and believe it does not affect them. Fifty-two percent believe that because they are not well known, […]
If you are responsible for developing or maintaining a website and haven’t checked out Ratproxy yet, you’re missing out. Before I start spouting off about just how cool and useful this tool is, I suppose I should first tell you what a proxy is. In a nutshell, a proxy is an application that runs local […]
There’s a lot of promise in the new SaaS (software as a service; what used to be called ASPs, or Application Service providers, till Microsoft crapped all over that acronym) and newer PaaS (platform as a service) spaces (and look for a steady stream of new “aaS”es to come). However, there are a lot of […]
Dave Artz has put together a simple Webcast tutorial on how to use webpagetest.org to measure and fix up your Web site. If all this talk about Web performance is a bit overwhelming, it’s a great novice tutorial. He walks through the entire process visually and explains each metric. Great job Dave!
We use Oracle Application Server as our Java app server at NI. Yeah, yeah, I’ll wait till you stop laughing. Why not JBoss or WebLogic or WebSphere? Well, a couple reasons. We made the decision five years ago, and JBoss wasn’t solid then, and we needed J2EE support so plain Tomcat wasn’t enough. And we’re […]
