Almost two months ago, Facebook added a setting for browsing with an SSL connection. So far, most app developers have not yet caught up. It’s simple. Go to Account->Account Settings->Account Security->Secure Browsing and click a checkbox. After saving, your Facebook experience will all flow over SSL, every byte encrypted with a 128-bit key. But [...]
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Dev to Staging to Production
How do you keep your development work from interfering with testing new features and providing a stable application to your users? Create a dev to staging to production chain. You’ve worked for months on a Web application, you launch and all is fine. Now you need to add a new feature that will take you [...]
FreeTime 3
Thanks to the extra time provided by the holiday, I’ve finally put together a release of FreeTime 3, a pet project of mine for more than 10 years. This newest release is based on work I did on the software at Clear Ink from 2006 through 2009. Thanks to David Burk and Steven Nelson for [...]
Annoying Anti-Piracy for Book from Manning
I bought Zend Framework in Action yesterday because the short tutorial isn’t quite enough to know how to architect an big application. I’m building an enterprise app at work for a client and picked ZF and YUI as core platforms. I’m pleased with the content of the book. Rob Allen is a fine writer and [...]



