Chris Johnston

I heard about this on techTV and also saw it on Slashdot, Netscape — or AOL — has won the battle.

I am not sure how long this has been the case, but I went to check out the Wrox website in order to research a book and the found the website to be mostly gone. Now I know that the company that owned Wrox went bankrupt.

There is a message on the site that states that another company has bought Wrox, so hopefully this means that they will stay around. There are some of the best computer books on the market today.

Now if I could only find a copy of Professional Java Programming.

I saw this little tip over at Zeldman.com and knew it just had to be shared.

It is a very subtle effect that highlights all the links in a paragraph when you put the cursor anywhere in the paragraph. It is completely done using CSS and is simply very cool.

For all those in Canada, I wish you all a happy Victoria Day weekend. Remember, keep it safe.

“… it’s now possible to put together a Linux-based home server in a small-footprint case that can store and display your digital photos, rip and then serve up audio, play MPEG videos (and DVDs), and even act as a TV/TiVo. How versatile you want this server to be depends on what gear you already have in your A/V rack. But at a minimum, this can be a great place to store your digital images, rip and store all your music, and have them all in one central location, both for your living room entertainment, and for viewing/listening from any other PC on your home network.”

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This article outlines how to set up a Linux server for the newbie.

“A concise guide to building a solid home Linux server, including how to bring up Samba, Apache and firewall services on Red Hat 8.0.”

“Jeremy Allaire is currently a Technologist-in-Residence at General Catalyst Partners, a venture investment firm based in Cambridge, but he is most widely known as the co-creator of ColdFusion. ColdFusion is a server-side Web development platform which was acquired by Macromedia where Allaire maintains the title Founder Emeritus.

In this conversation, Allaire discusses the origins of ColdFusion and compares it to competing languages like Active Server Pages, PHP and Perl. We also discuss Allaire?s career, his fascination with wireless technology, the value of blogs and Allaire?s role in the history and the future of the Web.”