Tag: 'internet'
When I teach Silverlight 2, I stress an important lesson that I thought that we (as developers) had learned the importance of linkability of the web. Early usage of Flash was the first time I noticed this. A number of those sites would create nested functionality that never changed the URL. If the URL doesn't change, i can't bookmark it. Most Flash guys learned their lessons pretty quick, but now I am inundated with AJAX driven sites that try hard to not to do post-backs. That's cool, but if the URL doesn't change I can't link to it.
After making my readers crazy with duplicate RSS's several times, it looks like things have finally been fixed. I have my new Rant URL's in place. The old style viewrants.aspx?id=XXX still work fine. But in addition, each rant now has an URL that starts with the date of the URL and the title is now the name of the resulting page. For example:
Url: http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=sh...
Url: http://ideas.live.com/signup.aspx?versionid=856...
Here are a collection of some new web sites I've ran into that I think everyone should visit (don't worry, no religion or politics here):
I've been using ActiveWin.com (and their XBox companion site) for years to get new information about Microsoft on a daily basis, but their draconian use of pop-unders on every page request has finally gotten the better of me. I am boycotting their site.
Url: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/owasp/OWASPT...
Url: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/v...
Url: http://news.com.com/2100-1025-5083840.html?tag=...
Url: http://money.cnn.com/2003/01/21/technology/veri...