April 2005 - Posts
I've been doing some research on CSS Architecture/Standards, and have come up rather dry. After spending a few hours hammering google with various keywords etc I can't find a single entity publishing any guidelines/standards for CSS development. What I mean by that is CSS architecture as it pertains to the UI development, not the standards of the specification. For example, is it best to use ID declarations for objects, or classes, etc. Has anyone seen anything or read anything that talks about UI architecture using CSS?
It's been a ton of last minute benchmarking, but well worth it. Dual Core is set to make huge tracks in the server market, with impressive scaling. Uniprocessor server configurations might well rise and Dual processor database servers will essentially perform like a 4P system. Intel is still setting their Dual Core launch for Q1 2006. We had a chance in the review to benchmark Intels latest Quad Xeon servers based on their new E8500 chipset, the system we had required 208V, a bit unusual from our experience but apparently doable at most NOC's. So, we had to wire a 240V circuit in the lab. The article covers both desktop and server performance, workstation is on the way. The server stuff is near the beginning and covers web & sql performance.
Article: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2397
After digging a bit deeper this week on the built-in Membership/Roles functionality, although it is quite extensive there seems to be a weakness in using it for a more robust security model. Maybe I've missed something, but here goes:
Let's say in a sample application I have roles entitled Manager and Employee. So, within my application I can now say if user is in role X show/do this. Now, let's say you wanted to have attributes to the role "Manager". The "Manager" role can do the following ficticous tasks: Create Users, Delete Users, Update Website, Add Document, essentially creating a group with various permissions.
From what I see there is no more depth beyond the Role...
After installing Beta 2 yesterday, I fired up our application and started working through some code. After verifying some layout code in IE, I launched FireFox and pointed it at the URL to the built-in webserver within Visual Studio. To my surprise, I was greeted with "HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden". Ruh?
Previous copies of Visual Studio didn't behave in this manner, so I dug a bit in the Website option within Visual Studio to find that Microsoft as now enabled NTLM authentication as a default for the built-in webserver. Why? I'm developing on my local PC why would I want to lock my local webserver down by NTLM? Granted, the option should be there, but disabled by default. Anyway, for those wanting to disable this, just go under Website --> Start Options and uncheck NTLM Authentication
Wow.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/18/technology/18cnd-adobe.html?hp&ex=1113883200&en=280a5a448b99307c&ei=5094&partner=homepage
It was fairly clear Macromedia was looking to be acquired, it was just a matter of time. Adobe is a bit of a surprise, since the two companies have been at each others throats over the years. Judging by the article, it is an acquisition for Flash, and maybe Flex. Hard to say what the future of ColdFusion and some of their other products will be, but the article makes no mention of them. Thoughts?
More information:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/pdfs/AdobeMacromediaFAQ.pdf
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