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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 [...]
Saving Big in Web Development
Karine Joly has a blog post this week asking for suggestions on how colleges and universities can save big in this time of slashed budgets, challenging enrollment and decreasing endowments. My ideas about this are two-fold. One, look for open-source solutions. Second, look for web services that can fit a need. They are often very [...]
