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Microsoft’s Web 2.0 Developer Program Scores Points, but read the fine print

May 7, 2008 – 10:02 am

According to this headline, Microsoft has “edged” Google in Web 2.0 services for developers.  The report being discussed is from Evans Data, a technology research group.
Microsoft  and eBay score unexpectedly high marks with developers, according to Evans.
You decide, the  report can be found here.   But I can’t quite grasp what sort of survey panel [...]

By Ed Laczynski | Also posted in amazon, cloud, ebay, google, microsoft | Comments (0)

"Facebook surfers may cost their bosses" – but look who is doing the survey

August 20, 2007 – 7:17 pm

Today CNET published an article claiming that Facebook could cost employers as much as $4 billion (yes, thats BILLION) dollars per year.
Internet security company SurfControl looked at the phenomenon and found that Australian workers who keep a close watch on their Facebook profile page were cumulatively costing their employers up to 5 billion Australian dollars [...]

By Ed Laczynski | Also posted in security, surfcontrol | Comments (0)

Ok, got the MacBook , now I want to learn Ruby. What first?

July 16, 2007 – 9:19 pm

I am going to try Locomotive. In the spirit of WAMP/MAMP, it is a full Ruby on Rails stack for OS X. Since I am not terribly interested in doing everything manually (yet), I figure this is my easiest way in.

By Ed Laczynski | Also posted in ruby | Comments (0)

Solution to an IE gotcha when developing Facebook App in an IFRAME

June 20, 2007 – 9:49 pm

This was a very frustrating problem for us in our app Jobs (http://apps.facebook.com/getthejob).
The problem was that in IE, if a parent frame has a different domain than the child page, the session data (stored in the Session object) is not preserved. This is a so-called “security feature.”
Anyway, if you have this problem, the [...]

By Ed Laczynski | Comments (0)

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