I love Firefox. It’s pretty much the only Web browser I use. I hate Tynt. If you’ve ever copied text from a Web page, then pasted it, only to find a mysterious “Read More:” link inserted at the end of the text you copied, you just ran headfirst into Tynt. Each time a user pastes [...]
New England GiveCamp 2010: What A Great Experience
The first New England GiveCamp was this weekend at Microsoft’s Northeast Research and Development building in Cambridge, MA, and it was, by far, one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had in the 15 years I have been professionally coding. About 100 technical and non-technical volunteers spent the weekend of June 11-13 writing code for [...]
Google’s Web Browser Has Its Problems, Too
Remember last month, when all the Internet was crowing about how “no one even attempts hacking Chrome” at Pwn2Own, an annual hacking contest with a primary focus on Web browsers? The implication was, of course, that the Chrome Web browser cannot be hacked; or, at least, that its architecture is so good, and that hackers [...]
An ASP.NET System To Allow Site Members To Contribute Content, Part 1: Overview
Crowdsourcing is all the rage these days, and even if you’re not managing a social media Web site, sometimes it’s helpful to accept content from end users. For example, one of my clients has a community calendar on its Web site. Since the inception of the calendar, staff time had been devoted to retyping e-mailed [...]
