Article archive - page 7

PCI DSS will wreak havoc on SMEs
Friday, November 30th 2007
One of my clients was asking me about PCI DSS certification today. Coincidentally I also received our letter about compulsory compliance to the PCI DSS standard. Both of us are what are termed "Level 4 Merchants" - that…
Adding Cron Jobs to a QNAP server
Monday, November 26th 2007
If you haven't come across them yet QNAP make these amazing little NAS boxes that are perfect for home or SME use. I've got mine running as a home server but might get one for the office as our old server is on it's last…
Why was data being passed on a disc and what was EDS' advice?
Wednesday, November 21st 2007
Readers in the UK will be aware of a Data Protection Act train crash that we have been watching unfold in front of us over the last few days. It turns out that 25 million records of a database managed by HMRC have been…
Fuzzy logic could book more flights
Monday, November 19th 2007
SQL makes logic easy for developers, however it also creates boundary issues when it comes to sales price matching. Fuzzy logic could help resolve this problem.
Why can't I have $100 laptop
Thursday, November 8th 2007
Don't you hate it when you can't get something you'd really like? I've been following the OLPC project more or less since its inception. When I first heard about it I was mostly interested in how they were going to pull…
Bye bye OpenMoko
Monday, November 5th 2007
Google announced today that they would be partnering up with a load of other companies including Samsung, Motorola and LG to produce a new phone "software stack". For those of us in the technology game this basically…
CSS Structure - what a mess
Friday, November 2nd 2007
James posted a message on my blog some weeks ago and it's only now that a penny has dropped in my mind about what we need to deal with the issue of structure in CSS - the problem is we have none. As James points out you…
FAH goes number 1 but we could do better
Friday, November 2nd 2007
Folding at home (FAH) has taken the Guiness World Record for being the most powerful distributed computing network with a top speed of over 1 petaflop - (a thousand trillion calculations per second). This is a remarkable…
Let the new gaming witch hunt begin
Monday, October 15th 2007
I'm in my thirties now and I've been playing computer games from the age of about four when my dad first brought home the venerable VIC 20 - partly because he was doing a computer science degree at University but mostly…
JQuery Slideshow
Sunday, October 14th 2007
It seems JQuery is definitely gaining some traction as a useful library - not least because of the development of the ThickBox Gallery library by Cody Lindley which is seeing huge amounts of use around the web at the…