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Widgets vs. Portlets

Posted on July 14, 2008 by David Megginson

Widgets are web pages embedded in larger web pages, generally using iFrames — the content comes via a separate HTTP connection and has its own CSS stylesheet, cookies, etc. Final composition takes place in the user’s browser. Portlets are software … Continue reading →

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Structured community authoring

Posted on June 24, 2008 by David Megginson

About 10 months after launching my OurAirports site for air travelers and pilots, I’ve finished the basic infrastructure to allow community authoring. Unlike Wikipedia, OurAirports contains information that is specialized, structured and finite (there are only so many airports in … Continue reading →

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Set and forget: 335 days and counting …

Posted on June 18, 2008 by David Megginson

Late in summer 2007, I set up a dedicated Linux Ubuntu server at a site in San Diego to host OurAirports and my consulting site, megginson.com. The ISP has had some net outages, but the Ubuntu server itself has kept … Continue reading →

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Strange web exploit attempt (?)

Posted on February 4, 2008 by David Megginson

In the search logs for OurAirports, I noticed a series of searches for URLs: http://www.feliciano.de/Webgalerie/bilder/Italy/une/yiwul/ http://www.unduetretoccaate.it/codice/aseje/wocobo/ http://www.altaiseer-eg.com/ar/articles/jed/umut/ At first, I thought they might be a kind of link spam — some sites display recent searches — but when I checked … Continue reading →

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Is the problem Wikipedia, or David Megginson?

Posted on January 23, 2008 by David Megginson

The Wikipedia article about me was vandalized yesterday (vandalized version) by someone from the IP address 24.225.66.95, which seems to be in or near Raleigh, North Carolina. What should I do? Edit the article myself to remove the vandalism? — … Continue reading →

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Google analytics for XML 2007

Posted on January 21, 2008 by David Megginson

I forgot that I’d enabled Google analytics for the XML 2007 web site. Even though the conference is long over, I though it would be interesting to look and see what some of the trends were from September 2007 to … Continue reading →

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LAMP stack stability

Posted on January 10, 2008 by David Megginson

I’m using a single dedicated server to host ourairports.com, megginson.com, and a couple of minor domains. OurAirports is a database-heavy application using (currently) a MySQL v.5 database hosted on the same server. I’ll offload the database to a separate server … Continue reading →

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Social web sites: the new Proprietors?

Posted on January 3, 2008 by David Megginson

Image: Thomas Penn, second proprietor of Pennsylvania, not as nice as his dad William. Almost a year ago, I wrote that Open data matters more than Open Source — it doesn’t matter (to you, the end user) whether a web … Continue reading →

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E-mail users fight back

Posted on December 16, 2007 by David Megginson

A bit over a year ago, I ran into an unusual problem — for several days, I stopped receiving messages from a customer (in the middle of an important project), then I discovered the messages all hidden deep in my … Continue reading →

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Amazon SimpleDB (not very Codd-y)

Posted on December 14, 2007 by David Megginson

This might be of interest: Amazon SimpleDB Amazon’s announcement Dear AWS Developers, This is a short note to let a subset of our most active developers know about an upcoming limited beta of our newest web service: Amazon SimpleDB, which … Continue reading →

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