Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

SmoothWall Firewall

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

Smoothwall is now a member of my home network, in fact, it's now the first line of defense. I installed the SmoothWall Express 2.0 over the last week onto a machine I was using to serve music. I used the open source version of the software which has ...

Venkman, the javascript debugger

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

I'll admit it, I've fallen head over heels for Venkman. Sure the project page is outdated, sure Firefox 1.5 isn't officially supported -- but does that stop me from using it, hell no. Venkman does work for Firefox 1.5, just requires a little hack that can be found here. ...

Ajax Patterns, Ajax Testing

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Work has kept me very busy as we approach our January 1st deadline. I can say at this point in time that I am getting quite familiar with AJAX and the frameworks surrounding it. I am definitely interested in learning more about the framework aspect of it since this seems ...

Virtual Private Networks (aka Pain)

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

A bit incognito lately. A co-worker is out of town for awhile so I've been even more incredibly, not to mention some other items. Anyway -- VPN's, specifically gateway to gateway. There is some serious hardware out there for these solutions. I hear that Nortel makes a good product, however we ...

Javascript Image DOM

Monday, October 31st, 2005

I've come across a problem that I haven't found a simple answer for regarding the javascript DOM implementation and AJAX. Here it goes: HTML templates are stored on a server, these templates can be partial pieces of an HTML page generated by a designer. These pages contain mostly CSS and ...