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CirruxCache: Overview of a CDN-like killer application

While shad already wrote a post presenting CirruxCache ideas, then announced its release as open-source, I thought I would shoot as well (more concepts, less technicalities :-)), in order to give to what I think is a...

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Why is Flash so bad?

Well, maybe you weren't aware, but Flash is bad. Actually, it's worth than that, it's evil. Pure, unaltered, total evil. :-) Indeed, it's so totally ultimately evil that you can't even spell the name if you're drinking a...

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IE8 XSS Protection, part 2

Paul twitted a former entry of this blog about the IE8 XSS filter, subsequently attracting reactions on this otherwise very quiet blog :-). As the post in question was a typical trollish rant of me, in the usual mood...

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Javascript mind tricks: How I hung myself with... the scope chain using function declarations and "with" statements

While it's no mystery that writing portable code for the web is rather a painful task, professional javascript developers tend to blame (with good reasons) browsers' makers deceitful DOM implementations and usually bash...

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EOZ

It's my sad duty to announce that Zoomorama is currently filling for Chapter 11 (Franklin did post already on the corporate blog). Paying customers that have not yet got in touch with me are urged to...

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Sagem websites deserve a razzie

I happen to be the owner of a Porsche Design P9522 cellphone (that's Sagem hardware). Actually a nice phone, if, like me, you just use your phone to actually place and receive phone calls - if you...

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Killing Flash

A rather accurate visual description of the situation IMHO :-) Disclaimer: this vision of the (?:open|close)web/(?:adobe-apple|flash-html5)-pissing-contest/platforms-merits/world/dog is entirely...

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CirruxCache 0.2.1 is released

I have just released a new version (0.2.1) of CirruxCache. To remember: CirruxCache provides a software solution to dynamically cache HTTP objects on Google Appengine (using the Datastore and the...

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