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Continuing on the series, the next item on the list seems to be the mistake I see the most--putting slow code in loops, loading up things that don't need to be loaded, making simple requests expensive.

There are many articles that cover PHP vulnerabilities, but I've run across a lot of programmers and code that seems oblivious to them.

We're hiring programmers, over at Freelock. I've been going through lots code samples to try to identify how experienced and competent a particular developer is. I also do this on a regular basis to evaluate how solid a particular open source project is.

... but are you sure price is the most important thing?

I met Bruce Henry at an MIT Enterprise Forum event last night. Turns out we're both working on software for project management.

We're doing a fair amount of AJAX development these days, and ran into a problem with the REST convention. Thought I'd put my notes here in case somebody else runs into this.

Over the weekend, I upgraded my trusty Thinkpad to the new Beta release of Ubuntu, Gutsy Gibbon. Thought I would post my notes so far.

The first thing to ask is, why? Web sites have lots of reasons for existence, but for business purposes, we tend to see some combination of four motivations:

Josh over at Web 1 Marketing writes about using www versus leaving it off. What’s wrong with no-www:

Several others have listed the applications they use on a daily basis. I've been using Linux for my desktop environment for several years, and thought I would share what I use constantly.

Marc Andreesson, one of the authors of Mosaic, the original web browser, has taken up blogging, and in his first week he's got some thought-provoking posts.

Quick quiz:

1. Your computer has been infected with a virus, and it deleted everything on the server. What would you do?

   1. Send the server hard drive to a data forensic/analysis firm to see if they can recover your project data.

   2. Recreate all your marketing material from scratch, scanning your logo and everything else.

   3. File a law suit against Microsoft, Symantec, and Dell for letting this happen.

   4. Call your friendly computer technician who disinfects your computers and then restores your previously backed up data from the Internet.