FerretArmy: A Web Developer's Paradise

Moxiecode’s April Fool’s joke should be a reality.

The latest news out of the RIAA is that they are ending their war on the consumer, instead focusing on ISPs in their pursuit of three-strikes types of rules where repeat offenders would be kicked off the internet. There are several important implications of this type of behavior, but I think the biggest thing to [...]

XMas is a great time of year, for sure. I don’t like it because of the religious aspects or anything, I just like it because I get to spend time with my family and I don’t have to go to work. Don’t get me wrong, I go all out every year on gifts and a [...]

Have you been to http://www.asp.net lately? I have no idea why, but it’s slowing my browser to a crawl for a period of 5-10 seconds just after the DOM renders. I’ve tried across several machines, and it’s really annoying, especially since it happens on every page load instead of just once. I think it’s the [...]

Netflix and TiVo are two companies that are constantly evolving their business models in an effort to not have their markets leave them behind. Let’s take a look at each. Netflix, when it began, specialized in the DVD-by-mail business. This was a great model at the time (and was supported by a great website), but [...]

Congratulations to Barack Obama on clinching the Democratic Presidential Nomination! I’ll be voting for you in November!

Here are 5 goals we should be pushing towards as a nation and as a global community: End poverty rather than fight terror. The former is a solution to a problem, the latter is just treatment for the symptom. Creating prosperity in the poorest countries in the world is a realistic goal in our lifetimes. [...]

I just bought a new PC – a laptop to be specific. It’s preloaded with Windows Vista, which really never had any appeal to me, but for no very specific reason (other than things like this). Well, after some hands on experience, I think I can say that it’s definitely no walk in the park. What it [...]

In the news recently, the CEO of Virgin Media has stated publicly that his company is going to start delivering content to their consumers faster or slower based upon whether the content owner has paid them money for better speed. This is important, as they are the first internet service provider to actually implement non-neutral [...]

  Well, before we get started here, why would we want to boycott the RIAA? Well, as I’ve pointed out before, they are using their intellectual property rights in a way that’s pretty close to extortion. They don’t pay fair wages to their artists (if they pay at all). They use illegal and quasi-legal tactics against [...]