SKFox

If you work in Information Technology generally, or healthcare specifically, then this is for you.

Courtesy: You’re on notice

I get asked a lot, especially on the Web Connect forum and jQuery mailing list, about Ajax (not AJAX, thank you) file uploads. The XHR object in javascript cannot access file uploads, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t give your users an Ajax-like experience. Here are some options and their corresponding back end languages.

• gMail-esque upload (.Net)
• SWF Upload (flash/js, but backend agnostic)
• MultiFile (jQuery, but backend agnostic)
• jUpload (java, but backend agnostic)
• File Chucker (PHP and Perl)
• …and my personal favorite, jQuery form plugin which handles all of your ajax and file uploads at once. Very nice, highly recommended as is jQuery.

Using Ajax in your website makes you buzzword compliant these days (OMG teh Web 2.0!?!), but once the hype passes I think everyone will agree then when used properly, it can greatly enhance the user experience.

Considering purchasing one of the following?

• Car
• Computer
• Software
• Wife (I’m just kidding honey…)
• Friends (No pointing fingers ya’ll)

Then you my friend have choices to make!

Pick two:

1. Fast
2. Reliable
3. Cheap

Now pick one:

1. Secure
2. Usable

Good luck with that, and don’t blame me when your head explodes…

So I love Battlefield 2142! I play with the FUBAR and DTD clans almost every night and twice on the weekends. It was recently brought to my attention that there is a tutorial on YouTube about how to knife someone. Good to know, cause my 17 dog tags look cheap compared to this guy.

Source: FUBAR Online Gaming Forums.

So if UAC is not a security boundry, then its purpose is to annoy the hell out of me, right?

It should be clear then, that neither UAC elevations nor Protected Mode IE define new Windows security boundaries. -Mark Russinovich on his blog.

I grew immune to the UAC prompt after only a few hours. I didn’t even care anymore. I have a great respect for Mark. Before he was a “Technical Fellow” at Microsoft, he developed the very cool (albeit useful) SysInternals tools. Yet I get tired of the MS chant of “UAC uber alles” and posts like his.