Category Archives: Web Design & Programming
Let’s Encrypt Enters Public Beta
There’s a new certificate authority in town, and it seeks to change the way we think about web security. Let’s Encrypt, run by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), a partnership of a number of Internet-focused organizations like the EFF, Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, and now Facebook, entered it’s public beta period this week and is […]
Generate Accessors and Mutators Automatically with PDT
I’ve been using PDT, the PHP Development Tools IDE that’s built on top of Eclipse, for my PHP development for a few years now. I came to appreciate the power and flexibility of Eclipse as a Java IDE, so it only made sense to use PDT for my PHP coding. One thing that’s always frustrated […]
Discovering MODx
Many people who know me know that I am not a big fan of most web content management systmes (CMS). In general I have found that the hoops these systems make you jump through to set up and manage sites far outweighs the benefits they bring for easy content maintenance. I am not, however, a […]
Say Goodnight Gracie
A pretty major event occurred at RIT on Monday, but hardly anyone probably noticed. It wasn’t marked by any sort of fanfare or celebration, just a simple email that popped up on my screen saying “Mike Young has completed a PCR.” And with that the “Grace” web server was retired. Anyone who’s spent any time […]
I’m a Terrible Bloggger
I’m looking at my blog and realizing that I haven’t posted anything since August. I am terrible about this whole blogging thing—every time I get going and I think I’m going to start blogging semi-religiously I stop after one or two posts. A lot has changed since my last post. The most significant thing probably […]