Year: 2006

  • Lions and Tigers and Third-Party Javascript

    There are many reasons that you may wish to put a third-party javascript reference on your website. Serving ads, making use of tracking and analytics tools such as Google Analytics, and many other features may want to use a remotely referenced third-party javascript. The big issue here is trust. By putting a remotely referenced javascript…

  • Spam

    When I launched 10minutemail.com, tons of forum admins decried the idea. They screamed that it would let spammers on to their forums, and that they wouldn’t sell e-mail lists to spammers, etc… A month goes by, and let’s see what we have. My server used to get around 200-300 e-mail a day. In the past…

  • 10MinuteMail.com hit digg.com’s front page last night

    It’s filtered down a few pages off the front, but hey, front page of digg.com! Wow! Totally grassroots in about 4 hours. Now it’s on all kinds of little blogs and tech forums and other odd places. Over 100k hits in the last 18 hours. It performs very well. There’s very little cpu hit at…

  • What’s up with SMTPS?

    Let’s start with SMTP. Simple Mail Transport Protocol. This is how e-mail gets sent. This is how e-mail makes it from you, to your recipient. When you check your e-mail, you use POP or IMAP to get the e-mail from the server. But when you’re sending e-mail, you use SMTP. SMTP is how your mail…

  • Index page issues when putting JBoss behind Apache

    So, if you’re using Seam, you usually have xhtml files which represent the pages, and then the Seam servlet takes care of rendering them. When I setup my latest project, I changed the web.xml to switch from using page.seam to page.html, to mask the back-end technology. When I did this, I also deleted the seemly…

  • PGP E-mail Encryption conceptual issue

    I have a number of thoughts in mind, which will likely turn into posts, and they are all leading up to a bigger unified thought. This is one of them. PGP / GPG email encryption is a good thing. It’s a pretty secure system, and the public registries of public keys makes it easy to…

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