There are certain situations when your design just needs that little something extra. I’m a huge advocate for clean and minimal design, but for when you need to kick it up a notch, I’d like to discuss some simple and tasteful design touches that you can apply. These are just a few solutions out of [...]

If you spend a little time looking into the online literature for the Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) exploit, you might get the impression that Web 2.0 has opened up an appalling can of security worms. In some ways this is true, but in other respects what we are seeing [...]

Last week I discussed domains a bit and in the past I have written about new URL forms such as dirty URLs. Today I present a corollary to those ideas which I dub the “flat URL.” The idea is simple, don’t bail out right away – there are some payouts to be had if [...]

Everyone knows about the sharp trade-off that exists when using SSL: You get the security of an encrypted connection but you pay for it with a significant performance hit. Servers work much harder, and pages load much slower. SSL processing consumes about 70% of HTTPS transaction time

This is the continuation of the post: A Web 2.0 Glossary (Part 1 of 2).

Podcast (iPOD broadCAST): An audio broadcast that has been converted to an MP3 or other audio format for playback on a digital music player (iPod) or computer. A podcast is distinguishable from other digital media formats by its ability to [...]

So if you know a bit about Ajax you might assume that there is no specification for the technology. That makes sense because Ajax is more of a term for a way of coding a JavaScript application – asynchronous communications often with XML as a payload though not always. Well it turns out [...]

We will no doubt be having a lot to say about Web 2.0 technologies in this space so we thought we might begin with a brief glossary of common terms associated with these technologies. As is typical for a burgeoning area of software development, there is already a pretty extensive family of terms to [...]