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Script Junkie | An XML Document to JavaScript Object Converter (Web Techniques,
Java@Work | Who Are You, Anyway? (Web Techniques, Feb 2001)
One hallmark of a great restaurant is that the staff knows your name and remembers you when you visit. How many movies have you seen where someone orders "the usual" and the waiter or bartender knows what to do? Personally, I've only been to a few places that offer that level of service—maybe times have changed, or maybe it's just me.
Database Programming with JDBC (Web Techniques, Oct 1996)
Programming for Active Server Pages (Web Techniques, Oct 1997)
Surfing the Web for Legal Forms
Internal Security: Rules and Risks (Web Techniques, July 2001)
On February 4, 2001, antiglobalization activists mailed a CD-ROM to a Swiss newspaper that listed the names of 27,000 attendees of the 2001 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It also held 1400 credit card numbers, as well as spreadsheets detailing travel schedules, hotel accommodations, session payments, and Web passwordsfor 3200 participants. Among those mentioned were Bill Gates, former Yahoo CEO Tim Koogle, Madeleine Albright, and Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres. In all, over 161MB of personally identifyinginformation was burned onto the CD-ROM--all of it stolen from the Forum's Web site and intranet.
Delivering the Goods
Content distribution network (CDN) providers promise to make life easier for system administrators. CDNs will cut a company's bottom line by reducing the need for servers and bandwidth, while simultaneously pumping up profits through faster site performance—or at least that's the claim. But some administrators say that using a CDN represents nothing more than the denial of an underlying infrastructure problem—a crutch that will eventually become too expensive to support.
Making Your Mark (Web Techniques, Apr 2001)
I received an email a few days ago about developing a domain name acquisition strategy. The author indicated that I should choose a word that describes my business or product and then register this word and all its misspellings. This procedure is fine if a company wants a domain name that's merely an online address; however, the method is quite shortsighted if a company also wants its domain name to be its identifying trademark or brand name. Dot-com companies, like their brick and mortar counterparts, must plan for the long term if their businesses are to thrive and prosper. Adopting and maintaining strong trademarks or brand names should be part of this long-term plan.
