Archive for November, 2009
Never Store Your Passwords in Clear Text
In 2008, I blogged about how to work with passwords with any web app you may build. It’s been one of the more popular posts on this site, and the lessons learned in that have never been more relevant during the course of the last few days. Let’s flash back and get a bit of [...]
Will Google Rank Your Site Higher if its Faster?
GigaOm reported this weekend that Google potentially may look as how fast your site loads and integrate that into its PageRank system. Matt Cutts, a software engineer and an eloquent corporate spokesman for Google, spoke at PubCon earlier this month and later gave a video interview to Web Pro News, in which he said that [...]
Cloudberry Explorer for Amazon S3 Review+ Giveaway
One of the things I like best about Amazon’s Simple Storage Service is that we users aren’t locked into just one way of managing our content. We can use third-party apps, browser plugins or even write your own. I haven’t had time to do that, and probably never well, so I rely on third-party applications [...]
